Author Archives: scaife

From the horse’s mouth

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

For God’s sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, on the plight of students who get in trouble for using bad information they find in his encyclopedia.

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Google Shakespeare, Google Book Search, Google Sketchup model

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Google’s Book Blog (devoted to the Google Book Search project) has an entry on the Google Shakespeare project. This latter site seems to give a good feel for some of the things Google wants to do with its digitized books. … Continue reading →

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Yet another site about Fair Use

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

From the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law: The Fair Use Network

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Jill Coffin: Analysis of open source principles in diverse collaborative communities

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

From Infobits: The June 2006 issue of FIRST MONDAY features selected papers from “FM10 Openness: Code, Science, and Content,” a conference held in May and sponsored by First Monday journal, the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library, and the … Continue reading →

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The Colors of Clay

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from the Scout Report today: 14. The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/colors_clay/homepage.html This web exhibition from The Getty takes you on a gently guided tour of the various ways in which Athenian vase … Continue reading →

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New book on OA

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from the mailbox: A new book, documenting the major strands and issues of open access, will be published 17th July. Jacobs, N., Eds. (2006) Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Chandos It covers the rationale, history, economics, technology … Continue reading →

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A URL to open Google Earth directly to a given location…

Posted on 2006-06-25 by scaife

… would look like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=rome,italy&ie=UTF8&om=1=&output=kml

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browser sync

Posted on 2006-06-07 by scaife

Been waiting for this tool for years.

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CLiP 2006

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

from Humanist: We are pleased to announce that the full programme for CLiP 2006 “Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world” conference is now available on the conference website at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/programme/full.html

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Dynamic Maps

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

from Humanist: A new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/ This issue’s theme is Dynamic maps, and it is guest edited by Patrik Svensson. Digital maps offer exciting new possibilities for humanities and social … Continue reading →

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Digital Tools for the Humanities: final report

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

The final report of a summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities is available now.

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Pamphlet on web services

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

from Current Cites: Breeding, Marshall. Web Services and the Service-Oriented Architecture Chicago, IL: ALA TechSource, 2006. – The advent of XML and protocols such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) which uses it are transforming the way our computer … Continue reading →

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FRPAA 2006

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

From Current Cites: Sternstein, Aliya. “Bill Demands Free Public Access to Science Reports” Federal Computer Week 20(15)(15 May 2006): 56. – It only makes sense, right? Taxpayers should have free access to the science research that they’ve paid for. Well, … Continue reading →

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Arxiv includes some research on matters related to the ancient world

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Alun Salt at blogographos notes the presence of certain academic papers on classics-related topics in the physicists’ OA repository.

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Homeric Catalogue of Ships in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Bret Mulligan sends word that he has begun a set of placemarks for the major contingents named in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, II.494-760).

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