Author Archives: scaife

Appropriate venues

Posted on 2006-02-02 by scaife

Peter Suber has done a useful service (again) in writing “Six things that researchers need to know about open access.” What?  Can’t find a journal that meets your needs?  Perhaps Scholarly Exchange can be brought into the picture.

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Google adopts a new motto

Posted on 2006-01-25 by scaife

Don’t Be More Evil Than Necessary Google has published a defense.

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Colloquia archive now available on an Open Access basis

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

An archive of over 650 TEI-conformant neo-Latin colloquia is now available via the instance of the new Perseus hopper that’s now implemented on this server, which provides lemmatized searching, morphological parsing and dictionary lookups, and automatic concordances for each text. … Continue reading →

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i2010 Digital Library questions

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) On December 5 – 6, 2005, the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries held a brainstorming meeting in Nice, France, to formulate responses to the i2010 Digital Library questions from the European Commission and to … Continue reading →

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reappearing as if by magic…

Posted on 2006-01-18 by scaife

Thanks to Adrian Packel of the Perseus Digital Library, who has installed the new Perseus hopper on the Stoa production server, the Lane Festschrift as well as materials related to Homer and to Olynthus that have been missing from this … Continue reading →

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new list set up by JISC Digital Repositories Programme

Posted on 2006-01-09 by scaife

From the BOAI list: Members of this list might be interested in a new JISCMAIL discussion list, JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, set up by the JISC Digital Repositories Programme support team (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories) for the discussion of cross-domain and international repository technologies and activities, … Continue reading →

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AWMC secures major NEH grant

Posted on 2006-01-06 by scaife

From Tom Elliott comes news of the success of the Pleiades proposal submitted by the Ancient World Mapping Center to the most recent NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development competition. Congratulations!

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yet another initiative for reform

Posted on 2006-01-05 by scaife

From Scott Jaschik, A Tenure Reform Plan With Legs, Inside Higher Ed, January 5, 2006: A special panel of the MLA is finishing a report that will call for numerous, far-reaching changes in the way assistant professors are reviewed for … Continue reading →

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It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing

Posted on 2006-01-04 by scaife

This blog has now been upgraded to the WordPress 2.0 “Duke” release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. No big changes on the surface, but nicer to work with behind the scenes.

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BMCR calls for reviewers of electronic publication projects

Posted on 2005-12-22 by scaife

BMCR editors Richard Hamilton and James J. O’Donnell reflect on the paucity of reviews of electronic publications, in BMCR and elsewhere: … we have not sustained a community of practice around serious reviews of web-based publications. This is a concern … Continue reading →

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Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment. Core recommendations: We need to nurture and validate digital scholarship and digitally literate scholars. We need … Continue reading →

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Folksonomies

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

Is user-based tagging “an idiotic idea whose time has apparently come,” as Roy Tennant puts it in Current Cites?

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Preprint repository for two university classics departments

Posted on 2005-12-19 by scaife

from Peter Suber: Princeton and Stanford have launched Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an OA preprint repository. However, deposits are limited to faculty from the two universities and there’s no sign that it’s OAI-compliant. (Thanks to Josiah Ober via LibLicense.) … Continue reading →

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Good news ahead in the world of GIS

Posted on 2005-12-14 by scaife

Via Peter Suber, a report by Declan Butler on the intricacies of Getting GIS data into Google Earth that concludes: …So the new year looks guaranteed to be a rich period for new GIS and visualization tools. One result, no … Continue reading →

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Text movies for two neo-Latin colloquia

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Dot Porter, Program Coordinator for RCH at UK, has assembled QuickTime movies for certain colloquia (text and audio combined via SMIL files): Erasmus: Abbatis et Eruditae Erasmus: Echo Technically I suppose these aren’t really text movies as Apple defines them, … Continue reading →

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