(11 March 2014) The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce the recipients of 4 prototyping project awards, granted as part of the Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis (WCSA) project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and directed by J. Stephen Downie (PI), Tim Cole (co-PI), and Beth Plale (co-PI). Each project will receive…
(15 April 2014, Chicago) As China has evolved into an economic superpower, interest in its culture and current place in the world has skyrocketed; China Studies are now taught in almost every college or university in the U.S., as well as in many junior high and high schools. Covering modern China, not just Chinese culture…
(14 April 2014) The Taiwan Fellowship is established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to award foreign experts and scholars interested in research related to Taiwan, cross-strait relations, mainland China, Asia-Pacific region and Chinese studies to conduct advanced research at universities or academic institutions in Taiwan. Application period: May 1-June 30 (for grants for…
(9 April 2014) It was announced today that all the issues of the seminal magazine, Audio Arts, have been made available digitally, for the first time, on Tate website. This unique publication, originally distributed via cassette tape and edited by the artist William (Bill) Furlong from 1972 to 2004, comprises 245 hours of rich material…
(2 April 2014) Google has made more than 100 of Angkor Wat’s historic sites available online with Street View on Google Maps. More than 90,000 panoramic images provide unique views of the exteriors and interiors of Angkor’s ancient temples including the Bayon. The announcement with links is here.
Interactive candidate information map for Indonesia elections (26 March 2014) Google’s Asia Pacific Blog today highlights Google’s partnership with voting-rights NGO Perludem and The Asia Foundation in Indonesia to create a first-ever interactive candidate information map, an open source project known as Peta Caleg in Bahasa, that will be updated as votes come in on…
(25 March 2014) In the biggest project of its kind in the southern hemisphere, RMIT University in Melbourne will spend A$98 million (US$86 million) to cut energy and water use as well as greenhouse gas emissions. RMIT – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – has worked with international companies Siemens and Honeywell for two years…
(20 March 2014) This special exhibition, Mapping Ming China’s Maritime World – The Selden Map and Treasures from University of Oxford, (21 March – 23 June 2014) tells the story of the maritime world of the late Ming-era China (mid-17th century). It features highlights from celebrated Chinese collections held at the University of Oxford. The…
(11 March 2014) The London Book Fair, in partnership with The Publishers Association (PA), and the Korean Publishers Association has announced the Korea Market Focus Professional Programme for The London Book Fair 8-10 April 2014 The Professional Programme provides an insight into the Korean publishing industry for international visitors and exhibitors. There are four key…
(13 March 2014, Geneva) The United States of America and China drove record-level patent-filing activity via WIPO in 2013 as the number of annual international patent applications surpassed the 200,000 mark for the first time. International trademark and industrial design filings also achieved new record-breaking levels. The total number of filings under WIPO’s Patent and…
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