Category Archives: General

2nd Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Posted on 2007-08-25 by hughcayless

From Martin Mueller at Northwestern (full disclosure: I’ll be a speaker): The program for the Second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has now been set, and you can see it at http://dhcs.northwestern.edu/index.html. The Colloquium will take place … Continue reading →

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E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-08-22 by smahony

See and forwarded from Classicists mailing list ————————————————– UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts … Continue reading →

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Moving toward greater usefulness…

Posted on 2007-08-20 by scaife

from Inside Google Book Search: Today we launched a new feature for Book Search to help more people access the world’s great public domain works. Whenever you find an out-of-copyright book in our index, you’ll see a “View plain text” … Continue reading →

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More on openness and Google Books

Posted on 2007-08-17 by scaife

As a follow-up to Dan Cohen/s post yesterday in which he lamented the lack of an API to Google’s book digitization efforts, there’s further discussion today, in the form of an interview of Brewster Kahle by Andrew Richard Albanese, Scan … Continue reading →

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Learn a foreign language on the cheap

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

from Lifehacker: The No Thick Manuals wiki details how to learn a language efficiently using two free, open source applications. The first is jVLT (java Vocabulary Learning Tool), a completely cross platform flash card application. The second is StarDict, a … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 2

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

In “Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes?,” Dan Cohen provides some of his usual thoughtful and well-stated correctives to the latest anti-Google jeremiad making the rounds, Paul Duguid’s “Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books.” Complaining about the … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 1

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

I hadn’t realized until just now that Melissa Terras is writing in her own blog, but its very good to know. I’ve added her to the blogroll on the right under Digital Studies.

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Open access and convenience

Posted on 2007-08-08 by scaife

This CHE piece caught my eye, esp. one of the suggestions made as to why people may not be using library-adminstered electronic resources so much: The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning — … Continue reading →

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Change to British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme

Posted on 2007-08-08 by smahony

Picked this up and copied it from mailing lists: From: British Academy [mailto:britishacademy@email.britac.ac.uk] Sent: Wed 08/08/2007 02:43 Change to British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme The timetable for applications for British Academy Postdoctoral fellowships has been brought forward in order to … Continue reading →

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“Two thousand years of mankind and medicine” (in open access images)

Posted on 2007-08-04 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen at BoingBoing.) The Wellcome Trust have released thousands of images relating to the history of medicine online for free under a Creative Commons (non-commercial) license. This is a very nice collection, and the classical material includes everything from a … Continue reading →

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Top 100 Alt Search Engine list

Posted on 2007-08-04 by smahony

I saw last year’s Top 100 posted here from Read/WriteWeb. They’ve just put out this year’s Top 100. The author says: Some of them did not even exist a year ago. One of my goals is to show my readers … Continue reading →

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Digital Media and Peer Review in Medieval Studies

Posted on 2007-08-04 by smahony

Copied from the Digital Medievalist mailing list: Call for Papers for the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2008, Kalamazoo, Michigan The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources invites submissions to the following sponsored session: “Digital … Continue reading →

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AWMC/Pleiades bibliographic records

Posted on 2007-08-03 by scaife

Staff and affiliates of the Ancient World Mapping Center and its Pleiades Project have released draft set of bibliographic records. The information in it was compiled initially from citation handlists and other unpublished working papers of the Classical Atlas Project … Continue reading →

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Slidecast in Slideshare

Posted on 2007-08-02 by scaife

For the Neo-Latin Colloquia site Dot Porter created a couple of SMIL files to permit simultaneous playback of text and audio via Quicktime.  The new Slidecast feature of Slideshare appears to offer similar functionality with greater ease.

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Student Bursaries for Computing in History Teaching

Posted on 2007-08-02 by smahony

Copied from the Digital Classicist mailing list STUDENT BURSARIES FOR COMPUTING IN HISTORY TEACHING The AHRC ICT Methods Network (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk), which exists to promote and support the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities research, is offering a … Continue reading →

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