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

Surprising History of Copyright

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

This Thursday, 27 July 2006, Karl Fogel (of Google) is scheduled to chair a session at OSCON entitled: The (Surprising) History of Copyright, and What It Means for Open Source. You can view the abstract online, whence the following: Much … Continue reading →

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Preservation Watch Report

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

Via the JISC-Repositories list comes notice of a report summarizing some current initiatives in digital preservation. This is one of a growing list of reports produced by the Jorum Repository Service.

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U.S. NEH Announces ‘Digital Humanities Initiative’

Posted on 2006-07-19 by Tom Elliott

NEH has launched a new digital humanities initiative aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology … NEH is interested in fostering the growth of digital humanities and lending support to a wide variety of … Continue reading →

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Classics-l gets a blog (and feeds)

Posted on 2006-07-18 by Tom Elliott

“Home of the Classics Discussion List” The blog : https://www.classics-l.info/ (rss and atom feeds prominently linked) Noted thereupon: link to an RSS feed for the listserv itself

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Open Access on the ANE-2 List

Posted on 2006-07-17 by Tom Elliott

A subscriber to the ANE-2 List has reposted there, with permission, an e-circular attributed to the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation [MSSRF] (Chennai, India) which calls for the: [proactive promotion] of ‘open access’ to scientific and scholarly literature so even … Continue reading →

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Can History Be Open Source?

Posted on 2006-07-13 by Tom Elliott

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has recently posted to the web a long and thoughtful article by Roy Rosenzweig entitled “Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” It was … Continue reading →

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Open Source Myths

Posted on 2006-05-05 by Tom Elliott

An interesting discussion on Open Source Myth Busting is developing on Sean Gillies’ import cartography blog.

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EpiDoc Development Sprint: more

Posted on 2006-04-07 by Tom Elliott

As a follow-up to my previous post detailing the achievements of the first half of an “EpiDoc Development Sprint” in London (20-24 March 2006), I would like to offer the following summary of achievements during the second (and final) two-day … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Development Sprint

Posted on 2006-03-22 by Tom Elliott

During the week of 20-24 March, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College (London) is playing host to a group of EpiDoc practitioners and Text Encoding Initiative experts for the purpose of an “EpiDoc Development Sprint.” This … Continue reading →

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Google Scholar = Worldcat?

Posted on 2006-02-21 by Tom Elliott

Christian DiCarlo, writing on local library search in the official Google blog, announces the “expansion” of Google Scholar‘s Library Search program to “help people around the world find works of their interest in local libraries.” What’s lurking behind? Google describes … Continue reading →

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Getting going with Fedora

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Writing to the JISC-Repositories list, Richard Green (manager of the RepoMMan Project at the University of Hull) announces “an early draft of a project deliverable that describes [their] work getting going with Fedora”: D-D4 Iterative Development of Fedora materials. Sorry, … Continue reading →

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Authority vs. popularity

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Recent new features on technorati have provoked Steve Rubel to ask — in the context of link counting and blog rankings — “What is authority?” People are answering …

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Folksonomy critique

Posted on 2006-02-10 by Tom Elliott

Under the rubric of “Semantic Web for the Masses, by the Masses,” a discussion on the xml-dev list is exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of asynchronous/collaborative tagging of web-based content.

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Google Print Collaborators: ‘Defending the future of books’

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Tom Elliott

Google’s Library Partnerships Director, Laura DeBonis appears on the Official Google Blog to gloss a recent speech by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, defending book digitization as “protecting the written word for all time.” Google blog post: Defending … Continue reading →

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The Journal of Maps

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Tom Elliott

From the Journal of Maps website: The Journal of Maps [(ISSN 1744-5647)] is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method … Continue reading →

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