Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

Institute of Classical Studies Work-in-Progress seminars (London)

Posted on 2008-05-01 by Gabriel Bodard

Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars Institute of Classical Studies Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street) … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would … Continue reading →

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Problems and outcomes in digital philology (session 3: methodologies)

Posted on 2008-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and outcomes in digital philology e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, March 25-27 2008. (Event website; programme wiki; original call) I was asked to summarize the third session of papers in the round table discussion this … Continue reading →

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A note from the blog editors

Posted on 2008-03-21 by Gabriel Bodard

The authors and editors of the Stoa blog have been hesitant to post a new item to this blog that would take the obituary and memorial to Ross Scaife off the top of the page. However, we are determined that … Continue reading →

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Services and Infrastructure for a Million Books (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. The second of two round tables in the afternoon of the Million Books Workshop, chaired by Brian Fuchs (Imperial College London), asked a panel of experts what services and infrastructure … Continue reading →

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What would you do with a million books? (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-16 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. In the afternoon, the first of two round table discussions concerned the uses to which massive text digitisation could be put by the curators of various collections. The panellists were: … Continue reading →

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Million Books Workshop (brief report)

Posted on 2008-03-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Imperial College London. Friday, March 14, 2008. David Smith gave the first paper of the morning on “From Text to Information: Machine Translation”. The discussion included a survey of machine translation techniques (including the automatic discovery of existing translations by … Continue reading →

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Rieger, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization

Posted on 2008-03-02 by Gabriel Bodard

CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources in DC) have published in PDF the text of a white paper by Oya Rieger titled ‘Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization‘. She discusses large-scale digitization initiatives such as Google Books, … Continue reading →

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International Seminar of Digital Philology: Edinburgh, March 25-27, 2008

Posted on 2008-02-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen on the AHeSSC mailing list: The e-Science Institute Event Announcement The e-Science Institute is delighted to host the “The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and Outcomes in Digital Philology”. The conference welcomes both leading scholars and young researchers … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Early Material Culture (CFP)

Posted on 2008-02-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Brent Nelson: Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to ModernityA Seminar to be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Seminar and … Continue reading →

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Music in TEI SIG

Posted on 2008-02-10 by Gabriel Bodard

The TEI community have just set up a Special Interest Group for the encoding of music in XML (disclosure: I am one of the moderators). I forward the announcement below: A Special Interest Group for music encoding in TEI has … Continue reading →

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Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (report)

Posted on 2008-01-20 by Gabriel Bodard

The British Library and JISC commissioned the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at UCL to produce a report on Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. It’s well worth reading the full reportin PDF … Continue reading →

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Long-term data preservation

Posted on 2007-12-14 by Gabriel Bodard

There was an article in New Scientist last week on plans for permanent data preservation for the scientific data. The argument in the sciences seems to be that all data should be preserved, as some of it will be from … Continue reading →

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Cultural Heritage and Open Access Licenses

Posted on 2007-11-17 by Gabriel Bodard

The Eduserv Foundation has released a report on the use of Creative Commons, Creative Archive, and other open access licenses in the area of British heritage, ‘Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage … Continue reading →

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Joint Library Digital Classics accessions

Posted on 2007-10-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies and the Institute of Classical Studies has a new blog which will contains updates to, among other things, library news, accommodation and shelving issues, and major accessions. In addition, items of … Continue reading →

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