Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

CC Learn

Posted on 2007-03-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons blog today: A new division of Creative Commons, provisionally called CC Learn, will focus on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be … Continue reading →

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APA to “use technology in new and exciting ways”

Posted on 2007-03-01 by Gabriel Bodard

First off, the APA are asking for generous donations toward an endowment of $4 million to build a new American Center for Classics Research and Teaching. The point of this centre, among other things, is to: The aim of the … Continue reading →

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Journal of Employability and The Humanities

Posted on 2007-02-27 by Gabriel Bodard

This call for papers was circulated by the HEA History, Classics, and Archaeology Subject Centre, but the journal, I believe, is being launched by the University of Central Lancashire. It strikes me that Humanities Computing departments that teach digital humanities … Continue reading →

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Classicists and Text-criticism Technology?

Posted on 2007-02-24 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve just spotted this blog entry from back in October, but it raises questions worth addressing (questions of perception as well as practice…): Last week, at the ITSEE launch, I –and several other people– had the opportunity to hear Michael … Continue reading →

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Symposium: The Future of Electronic Literature

Posted on 2007-02-20 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Academic Commons blog: Registration is now open for the Electronic Literature Organization and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities’ public symposium on The Future of Electronic Literature. Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 Location: University of Maryland, … Continue reading →

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Theoretical Approaches to Virtual Representations of Past Environments

Posted on 2007-02-08 by Gabriel Bodard

There are some places available for this all-day seminar taking place at Goldsmith’s College on 7 March. For further details, or to register, visit https://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/workshops.html or email neil.grindley@kcl.ac.uk. THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF PAST ENVIRONMENTS A seminar run by … Continue reading →

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PDF Specification released to AIIM/ISO

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen (via Slashdot) in Technoracle: Adobe announced it will release the entire PDF specification (current version 1.7) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) via AIIM. PDF has reached a point in it’s maturity cycle where maintaining it in an open … Continue reading →

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100 Alternative Search Engines

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Read/Write Web (by Charles S. Knight): Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.” Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use … Continue reading →

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Second Life experient in social copyright

Posted on 2007-01-21 by Gabriel Bodard

I spotted this several weeks ago in Wired magazine, but have only just gotten around to taking it in fully. The scenario: Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue [ed. note: modified from Open Source] software … Continue reading →

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Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

Posted on 2007-01-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons feed, an article in the British Medical Journal by John Wilbanks, executive director of the Science Commons, on why scientific research needs to be Open Access (and his arguments apply to all academic research, of … Continue reading →

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Mellon Post-Doc at Tufts

Posted on 2007-01-16 by Gabriel Bodard

See on the Tufts website (see full ad). This might be an appropriate post for a digital classicist to apply for; interested candidates are encouraged to contact Gregory Crane (gregory.crane@tufts.edu) as soon as possible. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has … Continue reading →

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Code of Conduct for Internet Censorship

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in last week’s New Scientist: Internet companies are poised to launch a code of conduct governing their operations in China. Web firms have faced sustained criticism for their activities in China, which include censoring websites. So Yahoo, Google, Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Open Course Ware

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot, a comment by Kent Simon: “Many people may not know that MIT has initiated OpenCourseWare, an initiative to share all of their educational resources with the public. This generous act is intended (in classical MIT style) to … Continue reading →

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A Companion to Digital Humanities online

Posted on 2007-01-10 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Humanist: I’m pleased to announce that the complete text of A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) is now freely available online, at https://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ —please forward this announcement to other … Continue reading →

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Second Life to open code

Posted on 2007-01-10 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve posted here several times about the educational fun to be had with ancient and other reconstructions in Second Life (see e.g. 3D Egyptian Archaeology in Second Life). Now more good news from Linden Labs, which may make SL an … Continue reading →

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