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OCA vs. Google Library

Peter Suber compares the Open Content Alliance with Google Library in the most recent SPARC Open Access Newsletter (#91 November 2, 2005).

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World Wide Greek

Learning Ancient Greek is the interactive, online complement to Cecelia Luschnig’s An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach. An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach is a traditional beginner’s text, written in a conversational tone, as though between … Continue reading →

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Kevin Drum on Google vs. the World

If it were up to me, I’d vote with the public interest. I sometimes feel that if the increasingly expansive view of copyright asserted today had been around a couple of centuries ago, the Supreme Court would have ruled that … Continue reading →

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Subversion client

Just found a quick way to get a Subversion client going on a Mac that hasn’t got Fink on it, here at Metissian.com. (Also here.) Click to install the package, check /etc/profile to be sure /usr/local/bin is in the path, … Continue reading →

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D-Lib

Juicy stuff in D-Lib this month: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora … Continue reading →

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BB devours WebCT

Bryan Alexander observes that “BB is the new Microsoft” for the CMS field. Moodle, anyone?

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Rollyo

Folks who recall the now-defunct Argos LASE (limited area search engine) may be interested in Klaus Graf‘s experiments with Rollyo, a site that lets you limit search results to certain sources. Klaus has now created a neo-Latin Rollyo, and an … Continue reading →

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CLiP CFP

The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: ‘Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world’ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, UK Thursday 29 June – Saturday 1 July 2006 https://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ ABOUT CLiP

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“restless, question-driven, active reading”

Gregory Crane, Reading in the Age of Google As staggering as some changes have been over the past twenty-five years, it is difficult to predict what we will be reading in fifteen, ten, or even five years’ time. Subsequent developments … Continue reading →

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“not exactly dignified”

Henry Farrell in the CHE: Both group blogs and the many hundreds of individual academic blogs that have been created in the last three years are pioneering something new and exciting. They’re the seeds of a collective conversation, which draws … Continue reading →

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Anti-spam

After installing Spam Karma 2 (a WordPress plugin), I’ve turned comments on as the default for this blog. We’ll see how it goes…

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Creative Commons: problems with -NC licenses

Erik Möller, “Are Creative Commons-NC Licenses Harmful?” Podcasting News, October 4, 2005. Excerpt (via Peter Suber): When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity behind the free content movement….One … Continue reading →

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The Singularity

from Slashdot: Rewind your brain 15 years and imagine what you’d think if I told you: Your computer will be roughly 1,000 faster than what you’re using today. You will probably have more than 4,000 times the memory, and a … Continue reading →

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Digital Watch

via Open Access News: Digital Watch is an Open Access online academic journal, which has been created by graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences to offer a forum for the discussion of issues relating to … Continue reading →

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Copyfraud

Jason Mazzone, “Copyfraud,” Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 40, August 21, 2005. (Via Peter Suber and Klaus Graf.) Abstract: Copyright in a work now lasts for seventy years after the death of the author. Critics contend that this … Continue reading →

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