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THE OATH IN ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE

Posted on 2007-10-18 by scaife

Alan Somerstein, helped by several research assistants, has directed a substantive new site with ancillary discussions focused on the oath in ancient Greece. Careful definition of the phenomenon, a database of over 3700 occurrences, and a spreadsheet of sources for … Continue reading →

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Multiverse & Sketchup: Doom of Second Life?

Posted on 2007-10-16 by scaife

from Shawn Graham’s Electric Archaeology: From an archaeological point of view, creating 3d representations of a site using Sketchup, and then moving that with the terrain into an online world, with the associated annotations etc could really be revolutionary – … Continue reading →

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New Plato translations, under CC license

Posted on 2007-10-15 by scaife

Cathal Woods, philosophy professor at Virginia Wesleyan University, writes: together with a student, i have prepared new translations of plato’s euthyphro, apology (which we’re calling “socrates’ defense”), crito, and the death scene from phaedo. they’re free to all under a … Continue reading →

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Fitzpatrick on CommentPress

Posted on 2007-10-15 by scaife

from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, Fall 2007: … CommentPress demonstrates the fruitfulness of reimagining the technologies of electronic publishing in service to the social interconnections of authors and readers. The … Continue reading →

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Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007)

Posted on 2007-10-13 by scaife

For some reason I never had a chance to meet Roy Rosenzweig in person, but I appreciated his scholarship, communicated with him by email a couple of times to discuss wikipedia, and heard lots about him from his admirers, of … Continue reading →

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Wiki2Tei

Posted on 2007-10-10 by scaife

posted to the TEI list Wiki2Tei converter 1.0 We are pleased to announce the first release of the Wiki2Tei software. Wiki2Tei is a converter from the mediawiki format to XML (TEI vocabulary). The mediawiki format is used by wikimedia fundation … Continue reading →

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Instant-on startup screens

Posted on 2007-10-10 by scaife

Ashlee Vance (by way of Siva Vaidhyanatha) discusses Splashtop from DeviceVM: … one must suspect that Microsoft is none too pleased to see a plucky start-up trying to gain first touch with customers. It could be very frustrating for Redmond … Continue reading →

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Mutatis mutandis

Posted on 2007-10-09 by scaife

Laura Cohen’s post at Library 2.0: an academic’s perspective sets out some reasons for a “training wheels culture” in librarianship. I think folks in the humanities will recognize the syndrome as well: Experience. If you’ve had little experience learning technology … Continue reading →

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More like this, please

Posted on 2007-10-02 by scaife

From A. A. Adams, Copyright and research: an archivangelist’s perspective, SCRIPT-ed, September 2007: To be an academic carries with it a great deal of freedom, or at least it should. At a time when pressures on academic freedom are rife, … Continue reading →

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English-Latin-English dictionaries

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

from the mailbag: My name is Silvio and I’ve recently concluded a set of English-Latin-English dictionaries which I thought you could be interested in sharing with your site’s visitors. The dictionaries provide clear and precise translations and are absolutely free … Continue reading →

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Vicipaedia

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

from the CHE: Latin Lovers Flock to Vicipaedia It’s taken only a few years for Wikipedia to become one of the world’s most translated documents: Sections of the site now appear in about 250 languages, including regional dialects like Quechua, … Continue reading →

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… and Why We Should Worry

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

Siva Vaidhyanathan has posted on his blog, the Googlization of Everything, an interview he did with a Charlottesville newspaper. The interview reveals some of his concerns about Google. An example: More than 20 big university libraries have signed contracts with … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia’s Awkward Adolescence

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

Thoughtful new critique by Karen G. Schneider (of Free Range Librarian) in CIO: Like a startup maturing into a real business, Wikipedia’s corporate culture seems conflicted between its role as a harmless nouveau-digital experiment and its broader ambitions. Worth a … Continue reading →

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Open Access publication, anyone?

Posted on 2007-09-29 by scaife

The second footnote to a review of Wolfgang Bernard and Christiane Reitz (edd.), Werner Krenkel: Naturalia non turpia. Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome / Schriften zur antiken Kultur- und Sexualwissenschaft. Spudasmata 113. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms, … Continue reading →

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Version control, visualized

Posted on 2007-09-28 by scaife

A nice visual overview of the purposes and mechanisms for version control, from Better Explained.

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