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Pim Allison: Roman forts not male-only

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Pim Allison, whose Open Access site on Pompeian Households is hosted here at the Stoa, is in the news: In a unique study, Allison has been analysing patterns of objects found throughout the [Roman] forts that support the presence of … Continue reading →

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New uses for RSS feeds

Posted on 2005-12-08 by scaife

Soon, there may be even more places where you can keep up-to-the-minute on the latest neo-Latin podcasts available.

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Public Scholarship and its evaluation

Posted on 2005-12-04 by scaife

Inside Higher Ed reports formation of a group “that will develop new ways to evaluate faculty members in the arts and humanities.” “What we are going to do is come up with creative ways to evaluate excellence in public scholarship, … Continue reading →

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Latin podcasting update

Posted on 2005-12-03 by scaife

OK, so after getting some advice from people at UK more experienced with audio recording, we’ve upgraded the equipment we use for our Latin podcasting to Behringer Eurorack UB 1202 shielded cable for mixer to audio-in on the computer 2 … Continue reading →

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Mysteries at Eleusis visual image collection

Posted on 2005-12-02 by scaife

Fiona C. Patrick (Project Coordinator, Digital Consulting & Production Services) sends word of the following: Cornell University Library is pleased to announce the availability of “Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions,” a digital collection of approximately 800 images from the … Continue reading →

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Digital CHASS Conference

Posted on 2005-11-30 by scaife

Digital CHASS Conference On Friday, December 9, EPIC’s Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS) Virtual Institute will host an all-day conference focused on digital tools. This event will be an information exchange among scholars in humanities, arts, social … Continue reading →

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Yes, but will they know any Latin?

Posted on 2005-11-30 by scaife

From Wired, “Podcast Chaos Be Gone“: Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching. It’s a significant step above traditional search engines that identify only keywords in … Continue reading →

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Gentium released under the SIL Open Font License

Posted on 2005-11-29 by scaife

Gentium has now been re-released under a license that permits modification and redistribution – the SIL Open Font License. This is an exciting new development that will give great freedom to people who find Gentium useful, and the freedom to … Continue reading →

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Feminism and Classics 2004

Posted on 2005-11-25 by scaife

Marilyn Skinner has completed editorial work on a peer-reviewed collection of essays, Gender and Diversity in Place: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Feminism and Classics, May 27-30, 2004, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona. These essays are now published as … Continue reading →

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more photographs from Troels Myrup Kristensen

Posted on 2005-11-23 by scaife

Troels takes great pictures, and just recently he’s added a bunch more from Italy and Spain.

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New and better neo-Latin podcasts

Posted on 2005-11-23 by scaife

The podcasting project mentioned here a few days ago continues, with some much improved techniques and voices (notice I’m not one of them this time!): Erasmus, Echo. Readers: William du Cassé and Milena Minkova Erasmus, Abbatis et Eruditae. Readers: William … Continue reading →

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Learning Sites

Posted on 2005-11-19 by scaife

Via RogueClassicism, a longish and worthwhile article about Don Sanders and his LearningSites company, which produces archaeological VR projects.

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Latin podcasting experiment

Posted on 2005-11-13 by scaife

William du Cassé (who’s enrolled in the flourishing UK Institute for Latin Studies) and I began a site this week for publication of recordings of neo-Latin colloquia saved as mp3 files. Should you want to keep track of new additions … Continue reading →

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Cyberinfrastructure draft report available for comment

Posted on 2005-11-10 by scaife

In this morning’s mail bag: The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment, at https://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/acls-ci-public.pdf The file is about 2.4MB in size. The Commission … Continue reading →

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Allowable values for “language” in RSS feeds…

Posted on 2005-11-10 by scaife

… do not include Latin, apparently.

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