Author Archives: scaife

A Don’s Life

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Alun Salt at Blogographos alerts to a new blog by Mary Beard: A Don’s Life — Mary Beard on Culture Ancient and Modern

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Update: Aegean Bronze Age in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-27 by scaife

I’ve added many more placemarks and grouped them by category (e.g. palaces, peak sanctuaries, Cycladic sites) in subfolders which may be turned on or off (depending on what you want to see) in the left panel of the Google Earth … Continue reading →

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Picasa for Linux

Posted on 2006-05-26 by scaife

Google releases a version of its image managment system for Linux.

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Pottery processing

Posted on 2006-05-25 by scaife

Posted at the request of Peter Pavúk: Dear friends and colleagues. We would like to invite speakers for our joint session on modern approaches to pottery processing. For full abstract check out the following link, please, but do not hesitate … Continue reading →

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Minoan Crete in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-22 by scaife

Today I spent some time associating placemarks for Minoan sites with scholarly resources. The file could obviously be developed much further but even now it may have some utility. I posted it to the Google Earth Community forum, whence it … Continue reading →

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Historical placemarks in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-21 by scaife

Browsing through the message board for the Google Earth Community shows that various enthusiasts have been busily creating themed sets of placemarks. Ancient Rome in 51 annotated placemarks Hadrian’s Villa, details of roman imperial palace 40 roman amphitheatres in high … Continue reading →

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Jane Austen’s Life and Works

Posted on 2006-05-20 by scaife

An interesting example of Google Earth put to use for literary history.

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Baidu Baike

Posted on 2006-05-19 by scaife

from a CHE piece on a rip-off of Wikipedia in China: It’s worth noting that China’s censorship policies make it virtually impossible for a true open-source encyclopedia to exist.

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New Mellon prizes

Posted on 2006-05-17 by scaife

from the CHE: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, a new contest that will recognize leaders in the field of open-source software. The awards will recognize nonprofit groups that have … Continue reading →

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Pisidian Antioch in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-17 by scaife

From The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology comes Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch, including lots of photographs and models, as well as an overhead view of the 3D restoration of Antioch mapped over the location of … Continue reading →

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New AJAX development tools

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

from the Google blog: AJAX has the power to make your site more compelling and more dynamic, but AJAX development is often complicated, with much of the development time spent working around browser quirks and the fragility of AJAX components. … Continue reading →

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Public education

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

from the Google blog: In my day, we thought calculators were neat 5/16/2006 02:55:00 PM Posted by Aidan Chopra, Program Manager, Education The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an innovative program that equips every one of the state’s public middle-school … Continue reading →

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A new translation of Euripides’ Medea, bearing a CC license

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

Celia Luschnig has produced a new translation of the Medea as part of the Diotima anthology. Special thanks to John T Quinn, Translation Editor for Diotima, for his help. (There’s also a pretty-print PDF version.) This work bears a Creative … Continue reading →

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Speakers at Convocation on Humanities Warn About Privatization of Materials (CHE)

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

(An excerpt from an article by Richard Byrne in the CHE — subscription needed) A joint convocation held by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Association of American Universities to assess the state of the humanities drew over … Continue reading →

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Copyright term and the public domain

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

A handy chart I had not yet seen, from the Cornell Copyright Information Center. Footnote 7 is useful: A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For books, the figure was even … Continue reading →

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