Author Archives: scaife

Scan this Book!

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

Kevin Kelly, Scan This Book! New York Times, May 14, 2006: For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Source, Publications | Leave a comment

Scholarly Research Trends in the Humanities

Posted on 2006-05-12 by scaife

Jordan Ballor has posted part of his talk on “various views of what scholarly publishing in the digital age looks like,” including these bits Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig complain of “the balkanization of the web into privately owned … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

More SketchUp: the Pantheon

Posted on 2006-05-10 by scaife

The Pantheon, situated in Google Earth.

Posted in General | Leave a comment

TEI by Example

Posted on 2006-05-08 by scaife

From the TEI list, announcement by Edward Vanhoutte of a new project to teach TEI markup: At the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Belgium) we’re currently working on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Projects, Publications | Leave a comment

Semantic Humanities

Posted on 2006-05-08 by scaife

Whose blog is this?

Posted in General | Leave a comment

More SketchUp: Pharos lighthouse and Roman Curia

Posted on 2006-05-07 by scaife

Here and here, respectively (neither model is geo-located in Google Earth yet).

Posted in General, Projects | Leave a comment

Lessig speech: Who Owns Culture?

Posted on 2006-05-05 by scaife

from the CHE: Who Owns Culture? Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University law professor and cyberspace theorist, is well-known for challenging traditional notions of copyright. A 20-minute video of a recent speech given by Mr. Lessig is making the rounds on … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Source | Leave a comment

OpenDocument Format accepted as ISO standard

Posted on 2006-05-04 by scaife

from Peter Suber: The OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) has been approved as ISO/IEC 26300. ODF is an XML-based, Open Source file specification for the storage of files produced by office productivity applications (word processor documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, etc.). ODF … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source | Leave a comment

Perseus Job Opportunities

Posted on 2006-05-02 by scaife

Please apply through the Tufts Human Resources WWW site: RESEARCH PROGRAMMER ANALYST Perseus/Classics Tracking Code M06-552 Job Description There are 3 positions available. These are grant-funded, limited appointment positions with an end date of 6/30/2007.

Posted in Jobs | Leave a comment

SketchUp’ed Acropolis in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-01 by scaife

A couple of days ago I blogged that it would be useful to recreate ancient sites with SketchUp and make the results available within Google Earth. Actually it turns out that the Athenian Acropolis (sans Erechtheion) is already available among … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Projects, Publications | Leave a comment

Google Maps in Europe

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

From the Google blog: We’re excited to announce that we have just launched beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These sites include the full suite of interactive street maps, driving directions, and integrated local business … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Leave a comment

“The original of this replica is now in the Berlin Museum.”

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

Large 3D printer required.

Posted in General | Leave a comment

SketchUp plus GoogleEarth for modeling of buildings from Olynthus, Pompeii, the Acropolis…

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

Idea for a new collaborative project: we need to be able to zoom in with GoogleEarth to various archaeological sites and see a collection of 3D study models sitting in place there. SketchUp Google Earth 3D Warehouse Here’s a short … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Projects, Tools | Leave a comment

EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

There’s a new home on SourceForge for Epidoc, and the Epidoc guidelines themselves are available here on the Stoa server. Principles: Five important principles have governed the elaboration of EpiDoc techniques and tools from the beginning: EpiDoc and its tools … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Source, Projects, Publications | Tagged | Leave a comment

The very last thing we need?

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

Lovely.

Posted in Open Source | Leave a comment