Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

Digital Imaging and Human Rights Justice

A very exciting story reported by Xeni Jardin on the Boingboing blog a couple weeks ago (Tech Forensics in Guatemala–first prefigured in a piece two years earlier), that links some of the imaging techniques beloved of we digital philology types … Continue reading →

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Archaeological and Epigraphic interchange and e-Science

Workshop at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, February 10-11, 2009 (see programme and registration): Rationale: The meeting will bring technical and editorial researchers participating in, or otherwise engaged with, the IOSPE (Inscriptiones Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini = Ancient Inscriptions of the … Continue reading →

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Suda Online entry URLs and index

Excellent news of upgrades to the SOL site in a recent report from Rapael Finkel: At the request suggestion one of our translators, Nick Nicholas, I have added a link to the SOL front page called “Entire list of entries”. … Continue reading →

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NEH High Performance Computing Awards

Winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program were reported on Arts-Humanities.Net by Brett Bobbley (originally at the ODH site). I note that two of the three awards have a strong classical connection: … Continue reading →

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Les historiens et l’informatique, Roma, December 4-6, 2008

From an announement circulated by Marjorie Burghart: Les historiens et l’informatique : un métier à réinventer Jeudi 4 décembre – 14 h 30 Marilyn Nicoud (École française de Rome) Accueil des participants Jean-Philippe Genet (Université de Paris I) Peut-on prévoir … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist Occasional Seminars: Lamé on digital epigraphy

For those who are not subscribed to the Digital Classicist podcast RSS, I’d like to call attention to the latest “occasional seminar” audio and slides online: Marion Lamé spoke about “Epigraphical encoding: from the Stone to Digital Edition” in the … Continue reading →

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Classical panels at DRHA

This year’s Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts conference (Cambridge, September 14-17) included a two-part panel on Digital Classicist (sadly divided over two days), organized by Simon Mahony, Stuart Dunn, and myself. Despite some apparently last-minute (and unannounced) scheduling … Continue reading →

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Legal guide to GPL compliance

I posted a few weeks ago on a guide to citing Creative Commons works, and just a short while later I saw this not directly related story about a Practical Guide to GPL Compliance, from the Software Freedom Law Center. … Continue reading →

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In defence of biblioclasm

Charlotte Roueché pointed me to this transcript of a piece from ABC Radio’s Perspective slot: ‘Our Biblioclastic Century‘. The author, Robin Derricourt, an academic publisher with a background in archaeology and history, makes some well-observed points about online publication and … Continue reading →

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How to cite Creative Commons works

A very useful guide is being compiled by Molly Kleinman in her Multi-Purpose Librarian blog. As someone who licenses a lot of work using CC-BY, and who both re-uses and sometimes re-mixes a lot of CC work (especially photographs) for … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist Podcast

The Institute for Classical Studies and Digital Classicist Summer seminar series is about half-way through, and the first several audio recordings of the proceedings are now available as part of the Digital Classicist podcast. You can find a list of … Continue reading →

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Redefining the Book: Carnegie Mellon and Lulu.com

Seen in the Creative Commons blog: ETC Press has just launched as an “academic, open source, multimedia, publishing imprint.” The project is affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and is in partnership with Lulu.com. When authors … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities from the horse’s mouth…

L’Observatoire Critique have posted a series of interviews recorded at the recent Digital Humanities conference in Oulu, Finland. Two questions were posed of each respondent: First Question. What are your colleagues (in your department, in your university, or in your … Continue reading →

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Internet Archaeology 24: Dealing with Legacy Data

Internet Archaeology announces issue 24, a themed issue dedicated to: “Dealing with Legacy Data” edited by Pim Allison. In the Mediterranean region particularly, but by no means not exclusively, there exist large datasets from previous excavations, published and unpublished, whose … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Early Material Culture, new deadline

The Digitizing Early Material Culture conference, for which we posted a CFP back in February, has a new deadline and slightly changed line-up of speakers (Meg Twycross replaces Melissa terras). See the new programme here (PDF).

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