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New humanities videos from UC Berkeley

Posted on 2006-09-28 by scaife

Among the Arts & Humanities videos just released by the University of California at Berkeley, there is “Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri.”

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CFP: A Million Books!

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

Very large digital libraries and the future of the humanities: What do you do with a million books? With Google Library and the Open Content Alliance, backed by Microsoft and Yahoo, very large collections are beginning to take shape. At … Continue reading →

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New blog for Papyrology news

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

A message from G. Schwendner (Wichita State University): I am putting up a weblog to keep track of new publications, announcements etc. in papyrology (my field). We see these, for the most part, on the Papy-list, but the archives are … Continue reading →

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On-line Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

A message from Judith Lynn Sebesta (University of South Dakota): Call for Collaborators to The On-line Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women The On-Line Companion to the Focus Reader, The Worlds of Roman Women,1 expands the book’s wide representation … Continue reading →

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Oral Tradition

Posted on 2006-09-21 by scaife

Via rogueclassicism comes the news that The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition now offers universal, free access to its academic journal.

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Zotero – the next generation research tool

Posted on 2006-09-19 by scaife

Dan Cohen has new blog posts about the Zotero project, which among other things has just landed substantial new support from Mellon.  For interesting details of where things stand, read Dan’s blog; meanwhile here’s a summary of what Zotero can … Continue reading →

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Call for Collaboration/Latin Treebank

Posted on 2006-09-19 by scaife

A message received yesterday from David Bamman at Perseus: The Perseus Project has recently received a planning grant from the NSF to investigate the costs and labor involved in constructing a multimillion-word Latin treebank, along with its potential value for … Continue reading →

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A pre-order special for Unicode 5.0

Posted on 2006-09-18 by scaife

The Unicode(R) Consortium announces that pre-orders of Version 5.0 of the Unicode Standard can be made now through the Unicode Consortium’s website. As a special introductory offer, The Unicode Guide — the handy tri-fold developer’s reference guide — will be … Continue reading →

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Graduate work in digital humanities and new media

Posted on 2006-09-18 by scaife

Stéfan Sinclair has produced a handy list.

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Wikipedia and human freedom

Posted on 2006-09-11 by scaife

From The Observer: The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries. Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the … Continue reading →

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Whose side are they on, anyway?

Posted on 2006-09-11 by scaife

Timidity and obsequiousness watch; or, Peter Suber nails it: Universities take industry word for copyright law By Peter Suber Cory Doctorow, USC Copyright rules are flawed, Daily Trojan, September 11, 2006. Excerpt: As students were returning to the USC campus … Continue reading →

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Will a patent on sliced bread be next?

Posted on 2006-09-05 by scaife

I had to laugh (along with some others, I see) at Microsoft patent application # 20060195313, filed 31 August 2006: Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb Abstract: A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a … Continue reading →

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On avoiding death-by-PowerPoint

Posted on 2006-08-31 by scaife

Just enountered this engaging blog: Presentation Zen.

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Google Book Search grants some PDF downloads

Posted on 2006-08-30 by scaife

from ars technica: Google went ahead and did it. Books no longer in copyright are now available for download from the Google Book Search site. If you’re looking for something tasty, might we recommend an early English translation of Montaigne’s … Continue reading →

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Interesting announcement by the NEH today

Posted on 2006-08-29 by scaife

Part of a message that came around entitled 2006 Changes to Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions Guidelines: “In keeping with the goals of the NEH Digital Humanities Initiative (see CURRENT SPECIAL INITIATIVES below), the Scholarly Editions Program requires that applicants … Continue reading →

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