Author Archives: Tom Elliott

About Tom Elliott

Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

(BYZANTINA) SYMMEIKTA goes open-access

Posted on 2008-05-06 by Tom Elliott

By way of Open Access News, we learn of this announcement, recently posted at openaccess.gr: Taking into consideration the latest developments in scientific publishing, the Institute for Byzantine Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation has reevaluated the aims of … Continue reading →

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Grading Journals

Posted on 2008-04-07 by Tom Elliott

Charles Watkinson has just posted a long, interesting and important consideration of the emerging European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH). He reflects upon, in particular, the stated aims and methods of this effort and its potential adoption as a … Continue reading →

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Whither scholarly digitization efforts?

Posted on 2008-04-03 by Tom Elliott

One of the authors at Thoughts on Antiquity has posted a provocative reflection on a long-standing effort to digitize an out-of-copyright translation of Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on Luke. In light of technological change, the big book-scanning projects and the … Continue reading →

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Scholarly legacy: an argument for open licensing now?

Posted on 2008-03-31 by Tom Elliott

Back in November, Gabriel Bodard posted about the importance of attaching explicit licenses (or public domain declarations) to on-line works so as to clarify for users how they can, and can’t, use these works. A new post by Cathy Davidson … Continue reading →

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Signs that social scholarship is catching on in the humanities

Posted on 2008-03-14 by Tom Elliott

By way of Peter Suber’s Open Access News: Spiro, Lisa. “Signs that social scholarship is catching on in the humanities.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, March 11, 2008. http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/signs-that-social-scholarship-is-catching-on-in-the-humanities/. Spiro asks: “To what extent are humanities researchers practicing ‘social scholarship’ … Continue reading →

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CFP: DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice

Posted on 2008-03-03 by Tom Elliott

By way of a long string of reposts, originally to AHESSC: Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:17 -0000 From: Stuart Dunn To: AHESSC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES Forthcoming Conference DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice The DRHA … Continue reading →

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Registration: 3D Scanning Conference at UCL

Posted on 2008-02-26 by Tom Elliott

Kalliopi Vacharopoulou wrote, via the DigitalClassicist list: I would like to draw to your attention the fact that registration for the 3D Colour Laser Scanning Conference at UCL on the 27th and 28th of March has now opened. The first … Continue reading →

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Search Pigeon

Posted on 2008-02-18 by Tom Elliott

Spotted by way of Peter Suber’s Open Access News: Search Pigeon is a collection of Google Co-opTM Custom Search Engines (CSEs) designed to make researching on the web a richer, more rewarding, and more efficient process. Designed for researchers in … Continue reading →

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CFP: Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0

Posted on 2008-01-23 by Tom Elliott

By way of JISC-Repositories: The 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada) has just extended its call for papers to 31 January 2008. Full details below …

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CFP: Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums

Posted on 2008-01-21 by Tom Elliott

Gabriel Bodard just posted a call for papers for a “virtual worlds” conference, to be held in Second Life on 8 March 2008. You can read the full CFP in the Digital Classicist Archive. I find it unfortunate that the … Continue reading →

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Humanities GRID Workshop (30-31 Jan; Imperial College London)

Posted on 2008-01-21 by Tom Elliott

By way of the Digital Classicists List: Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities 30-31 January 2008 Imperial College Internet Centre, Imperial College London http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events Data driven Science has emerged as a new model which enables … Continue reading →

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CFP: International aerial archaeology conference

Posted on 2008-01-21 by Tom Elliott

Another interesting call for papers via Jack Sasson’s Agade list: CALL FOR PAPERS International aerial archaeology conference (AARG 2008) Ljubljana, 9 – 11 September 2008 Hosted by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Proposals for sessions, … Continue reading →

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International School in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Posted on 2008-01-18 by Tom Elliott

By way of Jack Sasson’s Agade list: We would like to bring your attention to the International School in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage that we’re organizing in May 2008, in Ascona, Switzerland. It’s a jointly organization between: ETH Zurich University … Continue reading →

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THATCamp: May 31 – June 1, 2008

Posted on 2008-01-17 by Tom Elliott

See further http://thatcamp.org/: a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities … organized and hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Digital Campus, and THATPodcast

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NEH/IMLS Advancing Knowledge Grant Program Announced

Posted on 2008-01-17 by Tom Elliott

From Brett Bobley: This is a reminder that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to a digital humanities grant competition sponsored by the two federal agencies. The grant … Continue reading →

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