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

Gentium resurgens: refined Cyrillic, Unicode 5, smart rendering

Posted on 2007-02-19 by Tom Elliott

From Victor Gualtney, on the latest regarding the Gentium font by way of the Gentium-Announce List (links mine): Update #4 – Gentium project revived, Cyrillic, Charis Dear friends of Gentium, No – there’s not a new version out yet. 🙂 … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Bibliography

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has been hacking on his Readings in Digital History list to see what he can see. He visualizes and discusses the signatures of monads, dyads, clusters of “classics,” bridges and the subclusters they link to, and bestsellers.

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Humanities Computing Links from TAPoR

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Geoffrey Rockwell has put up a collection of tagged links to online works about humanities computing. It’s a good complement to Bill Turkel’s Readings in Digital History. And, best of all, it’s TAPoRized, so you can search the collection and … Continue reading →

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Google maps and millions of books

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

It was only a matter of time: Google has added overview maps for full-view books in Google Book Search. Even though Google is not the first organization to employ geoparsing technologies and autogenerated maps in the interface to a digital … Continue reading →

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“For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia”

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

What’s all this fuss about? The Middlebury College History Department’s so-called Stand Against Wikipedia is just an implementation of the seven-month-old advice of Wikipedia’s own founder.

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8 things about e-books

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Tom Elliott

Charlie Lowe just blogged about the Educause Learning Initiative‘s helpful introductory 2-pager entitled 7 Things You Should Know About E-books. It’s a decent tool for introducing colleagues to some of the key issues surrounding, and potential benefits involved in, electronic … Continue reading →

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What’s all this about furr-burr?

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Tom Elliott

Greg Crane wants me to think about Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Steven MacCall’s lecture slides on Historical Overview of Information Organization, AKA The ‘From Tablets to FRBR’ Lecture (requires Flash) seem like a good place to get started. … Continue reading →

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Readings in Digital History

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Tom Elliott

By way of Dan Cohen’s blog, I discovered Bill Turkel’s list of nearly 100 books relevant to digital history. The meme is a comps reading list for an imaginary digital history sub-field. I was psyched to see geographic history and … Continue reading →

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Identifiers and authority records

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

Lately, Sean Gillies and I have been thinking hard about persistent identifiers and simple URLs for the names, locations and places in our conceptual model for Pleiades. It’s just one thread going into the communal attempts of computing classicists to … Continue reading →

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New Journal: Open Access Research

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

A new journal entitled Open Access Research (OAR) is now accepting submissions and plans its first issue (thereafter, thrice a year) in August 2007. It’s described as “a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will enable greater interaction and facilitate a deeper … Continue reading →

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Googlian hegemony?

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

Stuart Weibel blogged Mike Keller’s OCLC presentation entitled “Mass Digitization in Google Book Search: Effects on Scholarship.” Weibel says: For those unsettled by the rapidity of Googlian hegemony in library spaces, Mike constructs a vivid and compelling argument for embracing … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons helps authors terminate copyright transfers

Posted on 2007-01-10 by Tom Elliott

Nathan Willis, by way of NewsForge, writes: Still seething over that bad book publishing deal you entered into in 1981? Good news … Creative Commons (CC) … is beta testing a Web-based tool … that helps authors through the tricky … Continue reading →

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Integration Proclamation

Posted on 2007-01-09 by Tom Elliott

Many authors and readers of content on this blog are deeply concerned about issues of ineroperability, data integration (and similar terms) as applied to humanities computing. Greg Crane’s recent response to the draft statement of the joint APA/AIA task force … Continue reading →

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Pleiades: Beyond the Barrington Atlas

Posted on 2007-01-09 by Tom Elliott

I’ve just posted to the Pleiades wiki the prepared text portion of the presentation I gave last Saturday during a session of the annual meeting of the American Philological Association. http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades/wiki/ElliottAPAPaper It introduces the project with a Google Earth use … Continue reading →

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Pleiades Achieves First Major Development Milestone

Posted on 2006-10-04 by Tom Elliott

The staff of the Ancient World Mapping Center’s Pleiades Project is pleased to report that it has met its “Geo Prime” milestone, effective 2 October 2006. The “Geo Prime” milestone was structured to demonstrate, in a modified version of the … Continue reading →

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