Passing the baton with the Time Layered Cultural Map platform

By Hugh Craig

University of Newcastle

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The Time Layered Cultural Map of Australia is a mapping platform, launched in 2019. I have been involved as academic lead from the beginning but now as retired faculty I need to pass the main direction on to others. I can report some…

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The Time Layered Cultural Map of Australia is a mapping platform, launched in 2019. I have been involved as academic lead from the beginning but now as retired faculty I need to pass the main direction on to others. I can report some progress, with a structure of ‘co-directors’ in place, but not yet a full solution which would require one or more academics with commitment to maintain the platform come hell or high water.

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Hugh Craig is an emeritus at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He started teaching in English Literature and then became interested in the late 1980s in stylometry and moved on to an interest in DH generally. He had a DH lab in the Centre for 21st Century Humanities at Newcastle which was responsible for the Intelligent Archive (stylometry), the IT aspects of the Colonial Frontier Massacre Map (Australian truth-telling) and TLCMap (hosting map layers for humanities research projects relating to Australia).

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