Author Archives: scaife

Threats to Preservation

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 lists some Bad Things That Can Happen Media failure Hardware failure Software failure Network failure Obsolescence Natural Disaster Operator error Internal Attack External Attack Organization Failure Economic Failure and she notes that LOCKSS is one … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web podcasts

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Keith Alexander at Semantic Humanities is compiling a list of podcasts on the theme of the Semantic Web.

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CAA 2007

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

The Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) to be held in Berlin in April is still accepting papers and registrations. It is the aim of the conference to bring together experts from various disciplines to … Continue reading →

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Call for examples from “TEI by Example”

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ of King’s College London, and the School for Library, Archive, and Information … Continue reading →

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Grumentum: latest from Troels Myrup

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

Troels Myrup has added new images to the Stoa Image Gallery: I’ve added photos from Grumentum in Lucania (Southern Italy) to the Stoa Gallery. Charming place but fairly remote. It’s kind of hard to think that tourists will ever come … Continue reading →

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Flash Earth

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

Use Flash Earth to try different mapping sites conveniently to see which has the best imagery for the site in which you are interested.

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Chiron web: collaborative Classics

Posted on 2006-12-03 by scaife

A very welcome announcement in the mail today: I would like to communicate with you the birth of a new collaborative site, so that you can announce it at www.stoa.org: Name: Chiron URL: http://www.chironweb.org/ The site is made by (and … Continue reading →

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Open Access Pantheon

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

From Neel Smith comes word of The Pantheon Project – The Pilot Project of the Karman Center. Definitely worth a look, with very nice OA policies covering the core project data: … many questions remain concerning the design, construction, statics, … Continue reading →

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UK is on board — how about your institution?

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from Open Access News: Another provost for FRPAA Kumble Subbaswamy, Provost of the University of Kentucky, has added his signature to the SPARC list of U.S. university presidents and provosts endorsing open access to publicly-funded research and the Federal Research … Continue reading →

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A Directory of Academic Blogs, Wiki Style

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from the CHE: How many academic blogs are there? Too many for any one person to keep track of. The popular academic blog Crooked Timber has long maintained a lengthy list of academic blogs. The list had been maintained in … Continue reading →

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Pot, meet kettle

Posted on 2006-11-20 by scaife

This one is pretty rich fare! How many times have we all read ludicrously over-reaching claims of copyright protection for books and electronic resources? And these people want to point fingers at the faculty for not understanding the law? For … Continue reading →

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ePhilology: when the books talk to their readers

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

Curious about where classics might go in a digital world? See the preprint of a new article about ePhilology (by Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University) that will appear in The Blackwell … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

A Mellon-funded working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (dhcs.uchicago.edu) has now issued a position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library. The goal is to consider how the future of … Continue reading →

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Teaching and learning scenarios for Google Earth

Posted on 2006-11-14 by scaife

EduCause has a two-pager, and Google has its own page for educators.

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CHE on historical visualizations

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

With Digital Maps, Historians Chart a New Way Into the Past: A push to make historical data more visual could yield a better understanding of events

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