Author Archives: scaife

From TEI-L, a mention of the new Wikipedia entry on the TEI.

Classic end-of-term displacement activity: I’ve created a bunch of Firefox search plugins for open content sites (Perseus, the Stoa, the Suda on Line, and the Latin Library), to accompany one for Perseus I found ready-made at the Firefox site. Just … Continue reading →

An earlier post to this blog summarizes new NEH-funded work on the problems of digitizing Latin incunabula. The project will disseminate its results very broadly, through publication of data on freely accessible sites like Perseus and in other university digital … Continue reading →

The Center for Hellenic Studies invites applications to two upcoming summer seminars on Greek scholarship and electronic publication. The first seminar (led by professors Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott) will be on “Homer: Research on Homeric Poetry, Emphasizing Textual Criticism” … Continue reading →

The Future of Digital Media is “a two-month series, sponsored by Orb, that explores how the empowerment of the consumer over his or her media experience, coupled with technological innovation that’s broadly democratizing media creation, is leading to a revolution … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Jeff Rydberg-Cox and others at the University of Missouri at Kansas-City for winning a substantial new grant from NEH Preservation and Access. Here is the summary of the proposal; be sure to note the smart plans for open … Continue reading →

In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a close look at the Congressional approval of the NIH public access plan and the UK government response to the open-access recommendations from the House of … Continue reading →

Wired has a short article about topic maps; here’s an excerpt: Databases and search engines provide instantaneous access to endless information about anyone or anything, but the search results often include as many misses as hits. To generate more-relevant answers, … Continue reading →

Says Chris Blackall of the welcome new blog Digital Encyclopedia (about pay-for-view and open-access digital encyclopedias): Suber’d * Definition: To be blogged in Peter Suber’s Open Access News; the open access equivalent of being slashdotted, that is, mentioned in https://slashdot.org/ … Continue reading →

The Academic Culture and the IT Culture: Their Effect on Teaching and Scholarship A year ago, my colleague Charles Grisham and I wrote an EDUCAUSE Review article entitled “Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet).” In short, … Continue reading →

I am writing to announce a new web site, “Inscriptions from the Land of Israel.” The primary goal of this site is to create a searchable database of inscriptions, along with their contextual information (e.g., images and geographical data), of … Continue reading →

Here’s an e-mail to the TEI-L list from Eric Lease Morgan of Notre Dame: In my copious spare time, I wrote a set of object oriented Perl scripts to manage TEI files — my TEI publisher: https://infomotions.com/musings/tei-publisher/ The system is … Continue reading →

UPDATE: Here’s a valuable overview and critique of this new service. from Peter Suber’s indispensable Open Access News blog: Tomorrow Google will launch the beta version of Google Scholar, although it is online today for use. From the press release: … Continue reading →

The Ancient World Mappping Center has begun to archive its collection of digital images on www.stoa.org, at https://www.stoa.org/gallery/awmc. And Mark Lehman has begun The Ruth and Louise McCollum Memorial Collection of Ancient Coins at https://www.stoa.org/gallery/lehman.

Neel Smith just alerted me to Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons set to launch on January 1, 2005: The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries … Continue reading →