Author Archives: scaife

The Scout Report today includes a description of the International Architecture Database, which includes textual and visual information concerning a few ancient temples. But what I like about the project is its built-in feedback mechanism, called the Pinboard, that apears … Continue reading →

We are slowly making progress on a “tagger” that uses methods from computational linguistics to identify and tag named entities in arbitrary ancient texts. One can imagine various efforts at text visualization resulting from that initial stage of disambiguation. From … Continue reading →

I find this rant fascinating and I wonder if there’s some way to turn this new feature to advantage…

Deborah Mitchell, a software engineer and language enthusiast, has generously and expertly put the materials in support of my Introduction to Ancient Greek (as well as follow-up study guides) on the web, primarily for a study group but also to … Continue reading →

This looks quite wonderful.

from the BOAI list: A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called DOAR – the Directory of Open Access Repositories – will categorise and list the … Continue reading →

Care to experience life as a Roman gladiator? Show any mercy and you will earn nothing but jeers from the bloodthirsty crowd, but dismember your opponents without batting an eye and you’ll be a legend right up until your own … Continue reading →

As noted at Open Access News, Fedora Release 2 is now available. Fedora is a general purpose repository service developed jointly by The University of Virginia Library and Cornell University. The Fedora project is devoted to the goal of providing … Continue reading →

The AIA, with open access to the full text of current issues of the AJA, a coveted slot in the DOAJ, and now two more interesting features, is moving far, far ahead of the APA, which is still all about … Continue reading →

We love to get fan mail: My talk about stoa.org went very well last night in Dr. Suzie Allard’s Digital Libraries class. Everyone was properly impressed by what you have done and just loved learning about the Classics and Humanities. … Continue reading →

Kudos to the American Section of the Institute for Etruscan and Italic studies for making their full-color newsletter freely available on line. It printed out beautifully on our office color printer, and I’d say it’s really quite substantive.

Dear Colleague, The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is delighted to announce: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BOOK Oxford Brookes University, 11-13 September 2005 https://www.Book-Conference.com The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the … Continue reading →

Troels Myrup Kristensen has been adding to the Stoa image gallery lately. He has most recently posted some particularly nice shots of Greek sculpture, and other goodies from museums in Athens. I like his shot of the Stoa of Attalos.

Zack Hubert is doing interesting work with interfaces to a morphologically parsed text of the Greek New Testament, and also exposing that text as XML. Mark Goodacre’s NT Gateway Weblog repeats a summary. As Neel Smith says in a comment … Continue reading →

On the Humanist list, someone asked a couple of days ago what to do about a publisher who insisted on a clearly excessive surrendering of rights. Bob Kraft made a reply that I thought merits repeating, so with his permission … Continue reading →