Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship

Posted on 2007-09-30 by Gabriel Bodard

Full programme and abstracts online at Institute of English Studies; Thursdays at 1730 in Senate House, London. 10 October: David Ganz (King’s College London), “Medieval Libraries in the Digital Age” 15 November: Paul Eggert (New South Wales), “Text as Algorithm … Continue reading →

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Academic publishers prepare for dirty war against Open Access

Posted on 2007-09-22 by Gabriel Bodard

According to an article published in this week’s New Scientist (full article requires sub): An unexpected package arrived on my desk earlier this year. The sender did not give a name, and the return address was false. Inside were copies … Continue reading →

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Diamond Synchrotron used to read ancient texts

Posted on 2007-09-16 by Gabriel Bodard

(Spotted by Gregg Schwender and seen in a Diamond Lab press release.) The ultra-powerful I22 Non-crystalline Diffraction beamline (as best as I understand it an application of the laser particle accellerator that produces highly concentrated pure light for scanning at … Continue reading →

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Virtual London shelved as OS refuse to license data to Google

Posted on 2007-08-29 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in last week’s New Scientist: A 3D software model of London containing over 3 million buildings in photorealistic detail is now unlikely to reach the public because of a dispute between a UK government agency and Google. The full … Continue reading →

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Who edits Wikipedia?

Posted on 2007-08-18 by Gabriel Bodard

A very interesting site has been doing the rounds of news and blogs lately, which allows users to trace anonymous edits of Wikipedia articles by comparing to the public record of registered IP addresses. The WikiScanner is itself neutral as … Continue reading →

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Session on Digital Reconstruction at Villa of the Papyri conference

Posted on 2007-08-11 by Gabriel Bodard

(Thanks to Lizzie Belcher, Classics outreach officer at Oxford for drawing my attention to this.) A Conference on The Villa of the Papyri Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September, 2007 Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and Christ Church, … Continue reading →

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The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons

Posted on 2007-08-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen on the Creative Commons blog: A study titled “The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons” was funded by Becta, the British Library, DfES, JISC and the MLA on behalf of the Common Information Environment. The work was carried out … Continue reading →

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“Two thousand years of mankind and medicine” (in open access images)

Posted on 2007-08-04 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen at BoingBoing.) The Wellcome Trust have released thousands of images relating to the history of medicine online for free under a Creative Commons (non-commercial) license. This is a very nice collection, and the classical material includes everything from a … Continue reading →

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Archaeological Computing: available for review

Posted on 2007-08-01 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve just spotted that this book is still available for review from BMCR after a month since it was listed as available. Surely there must be someone here who would like to get a copy and could review it? *Eiteljorg, … Continue reading →

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ccLearn: Creative Commons education division

Posted on 2007-07-28 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting development for teaching materials and collaboration protocols: Creative Commons is pleased to announce the launch of a new division focused on education: ccLearn. ccLearn is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning … Continue reading →

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Project Research Fellow Post at CCH

Posted on 2007-07-26 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London is seeking someone to assist with the technical research development of research projects: Project Research Fellow Full-time, open-ended Closing date for applications: 10th August 2007 Reference: W2/AAV/123/07 The successful candidate … Continue reading →

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Electronic corpora of ancient languages

Posted on 2007-07-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted to the Digital Classicist list (from ancientpglinguistics) by Kalle Korhonen: Electronic corpora of ancient languages International Conference Prague (Czech Republic), November 16-17th, 2007 https://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/ecal/ Call for papers Aims of conference Electronic corpora of ancient languages offer important information about … Continue reading →

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Mapping the Past discussion ongoing

Posted on 2007-07-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The AHeSSC / NeSC sponsored workshop on Space and Time: Methods in Geospatial Computing for Mapping the Past (23-24 July), is in process. It seems that the web-cast of the proceedings is currently suspended, but discussion is ongoing both at … Continue reading →

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Paper on Archaeology in Second Life

Posted on 2007-06-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Shawn Graham (at the Electric Archaeology blog) has uploaded a copy of his paper, at the recent Immersive Worlds conference at Brock. The paper can be downloaded (as a .wav) here: ‘On Second Lives and Past Lifes: Archaeological Thoughts on … Continue reading →

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Open letter to AHRC

Posted on 2007-06-17 by Gabriel Bodard

A letter has been sent to the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, asking for clarification on the fate of digital preservation and dissemination of good practice given the AHRC’s recent announcement that funding for the Arts and Humanities Data … Continue reading →

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