Author Archives: scaife

The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the November 1, 2004 receipt deadline for applications for Collaborative Research Grants. NEH Collaborative Research Grants provide support for a team of two or more scholars to pursue original research that significantly adds … Continue reading →

The Audio-Visual Survey for Classics, published every other year in Classical World, is now available at the Stoa.

Neil Beagrie, British Library, in an interesting interview: In the right conditions papyrus or paper can survive by accident or through benign neglect for centuries or in the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls for thousands of years. It takes … Continue reading →

Tom Elliott over at the Ancient World Mapping Center announces a redesign of the site. Crisp and clean.

Ten days after it was begun, the Stoa Image Gallery at www.stoa.org offers 1023 publicly available images in 5 top-level albums (49 albums total). Coverage includes: Nashville Parthenon (83 new images) Greece (Athens, Piraeus, sites on Crete and in the … Continue reading →

There are over 130 digital photographs in Stephen Arnold’s new album on the Stoa Image Gallery, including a great many North African mosaics. And he’s got a lot more on the way. Stephen’s image of the Vergil Mosiac in the … Continue reading →

APA Vice President Barbara McManus sends along some thoughts on the current state of affairs at the APA regarding electronic publication. Although the American Philological Association was a very early leader in the publication of “machine-readable” texts and has supported … Continue reading →

Today we announce availability of the new Stoa Image Gallery, an Open Access repository for digital images and video related to Classics, Classical Archaeology, and the classical tradition. We have implemented this project on a dedicated server running Gallery image-management … Continue reading →

UBIQUITY: So should everybody in the world have his or her own blog? ITO: A lot of it has to do with what the definition of a blog is, but to generalize what a blog is, you might think of … Continue reading →

Ryan Gabbard has recently begun a new and interesting collaborative project: The goal of the Open Audiobooks Project is for volunteers to work together to create audio books of public domain texts for people to freely download, distribute, and modify. … Continue reading →

From the CHE: A glance at the July issue of The Americas: The scholar’s role in building online-resource collections Scholars should embrace the chance to work with archivists to build online research centers, which can provide “resources that would be … Continue reading →

Peter Heslin writes that he has updated Diogenes, his freeware (GPL) tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. Here’s … Continue reading →

Worth reading, I think, is Graham Lampa’s “Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing” but I do wonder about the level of historical perspective in comments like this: The low-cost appeal of instant publishing promotes … Continue reading →

Interesting thoughts in an email from Neel Smith: Microsoft is selling through Amazon its copyrighted version of the U.S. Constitution. (Honest — there’s no way I could make up stuff this good.) I gather that the copyright claims are based … Continue reading →

from Ralph Mathisen: The third biennial conference on the topic of “Ancient Studies — New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies” will be held December 3-5, 2004, at James … Continue reading →