Author Archives: scaife

EDUCE funded by NSF

Posted on 2006-08-29 by scaife

The National Science Foundation has just announced a three-year award for a total of $1.2m to the team of Brent Seales (PI), Joseph Gray (co-PI), James Griffioen (co-PI), and Ross Scaife (co-PI) for EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and … Continue reading →

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Chris Francese reading Latin aloud

Posted on 2006-08-29 by scaife

Chris Francese has posted some well-made readings of Latin poetry on a server at Dickinson College. (hat-tip Rogueclassicism)

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When is a wiki not a wiki?

Posted on 2006-08-29 by scaife

Thoughts on impending changes at Wikipedia.

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Churning through

Posted on 2006-08-25 by scaife

In a must-read article, the CHE reports details of the Google contract with the U of C libraries. Among other things, it seems as if the goal is to scan as many as 3000 books per day. So — will … Continue reading →

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GE helps in planned move of Ramses II

Posted on 2006-08-23 by scaife

Nothing too earth-shattering here, perhaps, but I’ve always been oddly fascinated by the sight of very large objects being moved carefully through urban landscapes.

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Professors, Start Your Blogs

Posted on 2006-08-22 by scaife

Dan Cohen’s blog entries at Digital Humanities are few but roses.  Here’s yet another great post.  An excerpt: When I was in graduate school, the Russian historian Paul Bushkovitch once told me that the key to being a successful scholar … Continue reading →

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Five Weeks to a Social Library

Posted on 2006-08-21 by scaife

This sounds really cool.

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Site for Archimedes Palimpsest

Posted on 2006-08-20 by scaife

The Archimedes Palimpsest, much in the news lately, has an informative web site that describes some of the technologies being applied, significance of the work, and so forth.

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Google’s Writely now available (again)

Posted on 2006-08-18 by scaife

from Ars Technica: Editing is straightforward enough, and not noticeably different from working in good old MS Word or OpenOffice. Tables, images, the ususal lineup of fonts—it’s all there. The right-click menu tends to be obscured by the browser’s equivalent. … Continue reading →

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MuGeum: Roman Forum and Vicinity

Posted on 2006-08-16 by scaife

A MuGeum is a museum of places that are described by their geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude and altitude). A MuGeum can span any distance. A MuGeum may deal with one specific historic event (such as a discovery or a battle), … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

From Infocult: A recent Wired article makes the case for “crowdsourcing,” the practice of getting people from elsewhere to help you with a project.  It’s different from open source, in that outsiders aren’t contributing code, but ideas or media.

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Know it all!

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

The New Yorker has a worthwhile piece by Stacy Schiff on Wikipedia, full of interesting factoids and historical context. There are Aspergian Wikipedians (seventy-two), bipolar Wikipedians, vegetarian Wikipedians, antivegetarian Wikipedians, existential Wikipedians, pro-Luxembourg Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who don’t like to … Continue reading →

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if:book

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

Via Scribblings and Musings, word of an interesting new blog, if:book, sponsored by the Inbstitute for the Future of the Book.  One of the entries in the if:book blog references a chapter Clifford Lynch has written entitled, “Open Computation: Beyond … Continue reading →

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Photos of Atiz Bookdrive DIY

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

I see new pictures of the Bookdrive DIY at the Atiz website since last time I looked. And speaking of book-scanning, there’s this from Peter Suber: Bob Thompson, Search Me? Washington Post, August 13, 2006. One of the longest and … Continue reading →

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xcavator — image search and sort

Posted on 2006-08-09 by scaife

from John Battelle’s SearchBlog: xcavator is a new and exciting technology for searching and sorting images. With all the control granted to you, it makes image searching easy and specific. It’s very much like text-based searching in Google or Yahoo! … Continue reading →

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