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

Promise and challenge: augmenting places with sources

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has some very interesting things to say about “the widespread digitization of historical sources” and — near and dear to my heart — “augmenting places with sources”: William J. Turkel, “Seeing There,” Digital History Hacks, 18 June 2007 … Continue reading →

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BASP licensing

Posted on 2007-05-17 by Tom Elliott

In a post yesterday I complained that I couldn’t find a license statement associated with the newly announced online version of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. Gregg Schwendner had a look and found it. The table-of-contents view … Continue reading →

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BASP goes open access … or something

Posted on 2007-05-16 by Tom Elliott

I was filled with glee when I saw Chuck Jones’ post on Blegen Library News to the effect that the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists is now “online open access.” I eagerly clicked through to the BASP holdings … Continue reading →

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Stop teaching historians to use computers!

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has started what looks to be an important and potentially influential thread on the nexus of history and the digital. His opening salvo: Teaching history students how to use computers was a really good idea in the early … Continue reading →

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Analytical Bibliography in WorldCat

Posted on 2007-04-24 by Tom Elliott

Lorcan Dempsey has noticed that OCLC has started surfacing article-level references from various FirstSearch databases in response to WorldCat queries that would only have returned book-level results in the past.

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International Network of Digital Humanities Centers

Posted on 2007-04-24 by Tom Elliott

Making the rounds on various lists this morning is a call for participation in “an international network of digital humanities centers.” Julia Flanders et al. write: If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities center, anywhere in … Continue reading →

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Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics

Posted on 2007-04-21 by Tom Elliott

Noted by way of the Blegen Library News blog (but not seen yet) in the latest edition of Hesperia: J. Ober, et al., “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics,” Hesperia 76.1 (Jan-Mar 2007), 229ff., … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities Summit Wrap-up

Posted on 2007-04-21 by Tom Elliott

Dan Cohen has posted an extensive summary of the recent summit of U.S.-based digital humanities centers and funding bodies organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Essential reading for those who want to stay current in this area.

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Your data is the next big battle

Posted on 2007-03-28 by Tom Elliott

The trendspotters are saying (rhetorically) “Open Source is dead” and “Open data matters more than Open Source.” What’s clearly meant is: “open data formats matter more …” Open access — over which critical battles important to readers of this blog … Continue reading →

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Middlebury Wikigate Revisited

Posted on 2007-03-20 by Tom Elliott

Back in January, I made some hooting noises and pointed at Jimmy Wales in the context of the tempest-in-a-teapot that erupted after the Middlebury College History Department added Wikipedia to its list of works students may not cite in papers. … Continue reading →

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ECDL 2007 submission extension

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

Via a note forwarded to the JISC-REPOSITORIES list, John Robertson alerts us to an extension (until 22 March 2007) of the submission deadline for “papers, panels, posters and demos, doctoral consortium and tutorial” for the 11th European Conference on Research … Continue reading →

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Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

From the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration website (where you’ll find all the details): The Program in Research in Information Technology of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites nominations for the 2007 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). In support … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities 2007 registration open

Posted on 2007-03-15 by Tom Elliott

By way of John Unsworth’s note to the HASTAC list, we learn that the schedule and online registration are now available for Digital Humanities 2007, complete with an unfunny logo.

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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition

Posted on 2007-03-14 by Tom Elliott

From Charles Bailey’s post to JISC-REPOSITORIES: The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2006 Annual Edition is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/annual.htm Annual editions of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography are PDF files designed for printing. Each annual edition is based … Continue reading →

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Archaeologists erect new walled garden on web

Posted on 2007-03-13 by Tom Elliott

ArchaeoSeek bills itself as a new “Social Network for Archaeologists” with an exclusive membership policy: This network is for real archaeologists, i.e. those engaged or interested in the study of archaeology. No creationists, or crackpots need apply. If you do … Continue reading →

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