Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

3D Visualisation in the Arts student award

Posted on 2007-04-18 by Gabriel Bodard

From the ICT Methods Network blog: The JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) invites submissions to the 3DViSA Student Award 2007. The award will be for an essay on an innovative application of 3D computer graphics to any … Continue reading →

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Virtual Congress on Textual Editing

Posted on 2007-04-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwarded from Humanist: The second virtual congress of [the Romance Literature Department, University of Lisbon] on Textual Editing, begins next Monday, 16th of April. Soon, you will be able to know the announced lectures and papers , as well as … Continue reading →

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Open Source OCR

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot and Google Code updates: Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will ‘advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.’ OCRopus will be available under the Apache … Continue reading →

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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo support GeoRSS

Posted on 2007-04-06 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot: This week, Microsoft announced their new Live Maps, in addition to supporting Firefox on Windows for 3D, now supports the GeoRSS standard. They join Google which recently announced the support of GeoRSS and KML mapping in their … Continue reading →

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CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2007

Posted on 2007-04-05 by Gabriel Bodard

CALL FOR PROPOSALS doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9-12 September 2007 Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities … … Continue reading →

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Why Blogs should use Creative Commons

Posted on 2007-03-29 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting discussion on the iCommons blog. Excerpt: If your intention, as a blogger, is to have your content and your thoughts distributed as widely as possible, then reserving all your rights to your content is counterproductive. A more effective … Continue reading →

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e-Science in the Arts and Humanities

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

A series of lectures organised by the (UK) Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre: AHeSSC is coordinating a ‘Theme’ entitled ‘e-Science in the Arts and Humanities’ at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh. For more details click here. The first phase … Continue reading →

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Join the Wikipedia Debate

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: This coming Thursday (29 March 2007), the first Language Lab Unleashed! of the spring will feature Don Wyatt (chair of the Department of History at Middlebury College), Elizabeth Colantoni (Professor of Classics at Oberlin College), Laura … Continue reading →

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The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Posted on 2007-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: The folks at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory aka HASTAC (https://hastac.org) have posted a draft of a paper entitled “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.”  The paper will evolve through … Continue reading →

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Conference: Historic Environment Information Resources Network

Posted on 2007-03-26 by Gabriel Bodard

Data Sans Frontières: web portals and the historic environment 25 May 2007: The British Museum, London Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the British Museum, this one-day conference … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia editing as teaching tool

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

A wonderful suggestion in a comment on Cathy Davidson’s letter (that Tom blogged here a few days ago): Thanks for your great column. I’ve used the “stubs” feature of Wikipedia to generate a list of 120 topics relating to ancient … Continue reading →

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Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted by the Methods Network: The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research, has just launched an online community forum on ‘digital’ history: … Continue reading →

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Wikis and Blogs in Education

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons Feed: “The wiki is the center of my classroom” That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley. The other two are … Continue reading →

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MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM

Posted on 2007-03-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot, MIT LIbraries: The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers’ web-based database of technical papers, rejecting the SAE’s requirement that MIT accept the imposition of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. SAE’s DRM technology … Continue reading →

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New Blog: Current Epigraphy

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Announcement of a new blog: Current Epigraphy reports news and events in Greek and Latin epigraphy. https://www.currentepigraphy.org ISSN 1754-0909 (Online) CE publishes workshop and conference announcements; notices of discoveries, publications and reviews; project reports; and descriptive links to digital epigraphic … Continue reading →

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