Author Archives: scaife

Open access and convenience

Posted on 2007-08-08 by scaife

This CHE piece caught my eye, esp. one of the suggestions made as to why people may not be using library-adminstered electronic resources so much: The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning — … Continue reading →

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AWMC/Pleiades bibliographic records

Posted on 2007-08-03 by scaife

Staff and affiliates of the Ancient World Mapping Center and its Pleiades Project have released draft set of bibliographic records. The information in it was compiled initially from citation handlists and other unpublished working papers of the Classical Atlas Project … Continue reading →

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Slidecast in Slideshare

Posted on 2007-08-02 by scaife

For the Neo-Latin Colloquia site Dot Porter created a couple of SMIL files to permit simultaneous playback of text and audio via Quicktime.  The new Slidecast feature of Slideshare appears to offer similar functionality with greater ease.

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CommentPress 1.0 released

Posted on 2007-07-25 by scaife

CommentPress is a free theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained … Continue reading →

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Chiron pool at Flickr

Posted on 2007-06-27 by scaife

Alun Salt notes Recently the 5000th photo was uploaded to the Chiron pool at Flickr. That’s over 5000 photos connected to antiquity which you can pick up and use in presentations or blogs for free. It’s due in no small … Continue reading →

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Rome Reborn 1.0

Posted on 2007-06-11 by scaife

from the Chronicle for Higher Education: Ancient Rome Restored — Virtually A group of Virginians and Californians has rebuilt ancient Rome. And today they received the grateful thanks of the modern city’s mayor. The rebuilding marked by this ceremony has … Continue reading →

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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D

Posted on 2007-06-05 by scaife

Amy Hackney Blackwell has a new piece in Wired on the just-concluded month-long effort to digitize Venetus A at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.  (There’s a nice gallery of images too.) I was fortunate to be part of this CHS-sponsored … Continue reading →

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OA in Classics…

Posted on 2007-06-04 by scaife

Josiah Ober, Walter Scheidel, Brent D. Shaw and Donna Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics” in Hesperia, Volume: 76, Issue: 1. Cover date: Jan-Mar 2007

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EpiDoc Summer School, 11-15 June, 2007

Posted on 2007-05-13 by scaife

Over the last few years an international group of scholars has been developing a set of conventions for marking up ancient documents in XML for publication and interchange. The EpiDoc Guidelines started from the case of inscriptions, but the principles … Continue reading →

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New work on Johannes Tinctoris

Posted on 2007-05-09 by scaife

Ronald Woodley, Professor of Music in the Department of Research at the Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England, has substantially upgraded his site here at the Stoa on Johannes Tinctoris, prominent music theorist of the Renaissance. The project includes a … Continue reading →

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Type Greek

Posted on 2007-05-01 by scaife

Type Greek is a web-based software tool that converts text from a standard keyboard into beautiful, polytonic Greek characters as you type. Using an easy-to-learn and standardized system called beta code, TypeGreek converts your keystrokes into Unicode-compliant Greek in real-time… … Continue reading →

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Social Scholarship on the Rise

Posted on 2007-05-01 by scaife

Laura Cohen on her Library 2.0 blog offers a useful set of criteria for thinking about social scholarship: As an academic librarian, I’ve been trying to get a handle on the emerging parameters of social scholarship. This is the practice … Continue reading →

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New galleries at the Met

Posted on 2007-04-22 by scaife

Nice panoramic images of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here. Also of interest: “Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor Announce Pioneering Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge“

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CFP: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Posted on 2007-04-19 by scaife

from Martin Mueller: The second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. The event is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of … Continue reading →

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Pulitzer Prizes need updated categories

Posted on 2007-04-17 by scaife

Winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prizes in various categories were announced yesterday.  Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a prize for a blogger.  If there had been, I can’t imagine a more deserving recipient than K.C. Johnson, for bravely staring down the … Continue reading →

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