Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

Studentship and job in E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-06-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Melissa Terras: Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities E-Science initiative to support research on the application of Information Technology to ancient documents. Both posts are attached … Continue reading →

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Two Digital Humanities Job Openings at Brown University

Posted on 2007-06-03 by Gabriel Bodard

1. Scholarly Technology Group—Senior Research Programmer The Senior Research Programmer Analyst works closely with faculty and STG staff to carry out digital humanities projects by performing project analysis, providing technical leadership, programming and software development in support of STG’s projects. … Continue reading →

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Collaborative article against perpetual copyright

Posted on 2007-06-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Back in the middle of May, Lawrence Lessig posted a note on his blog pointing to a particularly idiotic op-ed in the NY Times that argued for perpetual copyright. He invited readers to write a response, on his Wiki. 25000 … Continue reading →

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Withdrawal of AHDS Funding

Posted on 2007-06-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Following the recent public announcement that the UK’s AHRC intends to withdraw funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the following petition has been set up at the British Government’s website. https://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AHDSfunding/ On 11 May 2007, Professor Phillip Esler, … Continue reading →

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Job: Research Associate at Telota Initiative, BBAW

Posted on 2007-05-24 by Gabriel Bodard

Alexander Czmiel posts to following job to the Digital Classicist list: I would like to point you to an open position at the Telota-Initiative (“The electronic life of the Academy”) of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Though the … Continue reading →

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Computing Panel at European Association of Archaeologists

Posted on 2007-05-24 by Gabriel Bodard

A Call for Proposals from Geoff Carver (seen on Antiquist). Send abstracts or suggestions to gjcarver@t-online.de. I still need a few abstracts for a session I’ve organised for the European Association of Archaeologists conference, to be held in Zadar, Croatia … Continue reading →

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Encyclopedia of Life

Posted on 2007-05-15 by Gabriel Bodard

The New Scientist this week reports on the Encyclopedia of Life, a new, massive, collaborative, evolving resource to catalogue the 1.8 million known species of life on the planet. Although this is a biology resource and so, for example, has … Continue reading →

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Text Mining for Historians (workshop)

Posted on 2007-05-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Just announced by the Methods Network: TEXT MINING FOR HISTORIANS workshop at University of Glasgow 17 – 18 July 2007 A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History and the Association for History and Computing UK (AHC-UK) Texts are central … Continue reading →

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Google Earth with Audio

Posted on 2007-05-13 by Gabriel Bodard

This interesting post over at New Scientist Tech: Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3500 hours of sound recordings from all over the world, including bird and whale song and the crackle of melting glaciers. His company, Wild … Continue reading →

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Image [&] Narrative issue on The Digital Archive

Posted on 2007-05-09 by Gabriel Bodard

The April 2007 issue of the online journal Image [&] Narrative is devoted to ‘The Digital Archive’. The table of Contents includes: Redefining the Limits of Space and Time on the Web, Jean Nicolas de Surmont Distances digitales : combinatoire … Continue reading →

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Georg Vogeler on digital tools, visualisation, and history

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Gabriel Bodard

An interview posted in the Methods Network Digital Historian forum, with an open invitation to participate in the discussion there. There are lots of historians who would say: OK, it’s good to write e-mail and very convenient to use the … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons and research

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Gabriel Bodard

A post on the Creative Commons blog draws together four articles on the value of Creative Commons licensing for newspapers, scientists, film students, and Wikipedia “SEOers” respectively. All are worth reading, but it is the article on scientists that is … Continue reading →

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Fair use and blogs

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

This post seen in the Creative Commons blog is relevant to the discussion we had here a few weeks ago about copyright and blogs. What is the status of all these copy-n-pasted paragraphs below? Copyright and fair use in the … Continue reading →

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Junicode update released

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Keeping with the Unicode/font theme, here is the announcement of the latest release of the useful Junicode font package. Although it focuses on Medieval characters (Correction: and *does* now cover polytonic Greek) is has very good coverage of Latin, symbols, … Continue reading →

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Computers in Papyrology and Paleography

Posted on 2007-04-20 by Gabriel Bodard

A message from Professor Roger Boyle [roger@comp.leeds.ac.uk], Head of the School of Computing, University of Leeds. Dear all – I have been asked by the British Machine Vision Association to consider running a day on “Computers in Papyrology and Paleography” … Continue reading →

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