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Good question!

Posted on 2006-08-08 by scaife

What’s wrong with this picture? By Peter Suber The UK National Archives has digitized The Domesday Book, “the earliest surviving public record” in British history.The book is in the public domain and the digitization was done at public expense, but … Continue reading →

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DAI Archaeological Bibliography goes OA

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

Sayonara, Dyabola: We would like to inform you that the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) compiles the four most important Bibliographies on archaeology: Archaeological Bibliography (Realkatalog) Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula Subject catalogue of the Roman-German Commission Bibliography … Continue reading →

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Network links for showing geotagged photos in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

I think it would be interesting for an ASCSA regular member to use this techique with photographs taken during the fall and winter trips.

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Creating ebooks with open source tools

Posted on 2006-08-02 by scaife

The TeleRead blog points to what looks like a useful Newsforge article about the the Sunrise desktop conversion tool and the Plucker reader.

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Intute

Posted on 2006-08-01 by scaife

from the mailbag: Dear Prof. Scaife, I forward to you as editor of the Stoa Consortium the announcement of the launch of Intute, a free online service that may be of interest to the readers of the Stoa.org blog. Intute … Continue reading →

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The “dread fear”

Posted on 2006-07-13 by scaife

Would that everyone were as cool-headed about the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as Roy Rosenzweig. But as Infocult’s Bryan Alexander comments today on a Washington Post article: “In educational settings, I’m still getting signals that the Wikipedia is a … Continue reading →

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Horologium Ronaldi

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

The sundial of Augustus has now been updated.

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Fair Use Day

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

So, only 364 days left until the next Fair Use Day! (Thanks for the tip, Tom.)

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Sagalassos excavations and Google Earth

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

Troels Kristensen (Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm) has a post about resumption of the excavations at Sagalassos and the presentation of that site in Google Earth. The latter is very nicely done, with a map overlay, geophysical map, and pointers … Continue reading →

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Four kinds of search for Google Books

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

Yesterday the Inside Google Book Search blog offered details concerning The four ways you’ll see books in Google Book Search.

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Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML … Continue reading →

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Extreme DE: digitizing Calepinus

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Today Wolfgang Schibel (of the phenomenal project CAMENA – Lateinische Texte der Frühen Neuzeit) mentioned to me the Wolfenbüttel images of the Leiden Calepinus ca. 1650. This is a fascinating work for many reasons but my first reaction on seeing … Continue reading →

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TEI by example, initial report, 2006/06/09

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

TEI by example, initial report, 2006/06/09

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Open Context: Sharing Archaeological Data Digitally

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from About Archaeology: A new tool in the open source arsenal announced its beta launch last week. Called Open Context, the project involves scientists from Cambridge University (UK), Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, U.C. Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, … Continue reading →

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Webcast on digital libraries coming up

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President (Research) at OCLC, will be making a presentation at Edinburgh University Library on Monday 3 July 2006: The digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0. Edinburgh University Library. Monday 3 July 2006. … Continue reading →

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