Category Archives: General

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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New Project – Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents

Posted on 2007-05-15 by melissa

Oxford University and UCL are pleased to announce the recent funding of a new project to work on aiding scholars in reading and interpreting Ancient Texts. Three year funding, including one additional phd studentship, has been secured from the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC … Continue reading →

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Open Source Critical Editions Workshop

Posted on 2007-05-15 by ctupman

Gabriel Bodard and Juan Garces have reported on the aims, discussions and conclusions of the Open Source Critical Editions Workshop. This is published on the AHRC ICT Methods Network site: https://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act9report.html The workshop addressed the technological, legal and administrative issues … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, 11-15 June, 2007

Posted on 2007-05-13 by scaife

Over the last few years an international group of scholars has been developing a set of conventions for marking up ancient documents in XML for publication and interchange. The EpiDoc Guidelines started from the case of inscriptions, but the principles … Continue reading →

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Google Earth with Audio

Posted on 2007-05-13 by Gabriel Bodard

This interesting post over at New Scientist Tech: Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3500 hours of sound recordings from all over the world, including bird and whale song and the crackle of melting glaciers. His company, Wild … Continue reading →

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Google Books Pushback

Posted on 2007-05-10 by hughcayless

Robert B. Townsend’s post on the AHA blog is getting noticed in various places. His complaints center around poor scanning quality, shoddy metadata, and not providing full access to Public Domain works. While it’s true Google is structuring their business … Continue reading →

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New work on Johannes Tinctoris

Posted on 2007-05-09 by scaife

Ronald Woodley, Professor of Music in the Department of Research at the Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England, has substantially upgraded his site here at the Stoa on Johannes Tinctoris, prominent music theorist of the Renaissance. The project includes a … Continue reading →

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Georg Vogeler on digital tools, visualisation, and history

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Gabriel Bodard

An interview posted in the Methods Network Digital Historian forum, with an open invitation to participate in the discussion there. There are lots of historians who would say: OK, it’s good to write e-mail and very convenient to use the … Continue reading →

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Fair use and blogs

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

This post seen in the Creative Commons blog is relevant to the discussion we had here a few weeks ago about copyright and blogs. What is the status of all these copy-n-pasted paragraphs below? Copyright and fair use in the … Continue reading →

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Junicode update released

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Keeping with the Unicode/font theme, here is the announcement of the latest release of the useful Junicode font package. Although it focuses on Medieval characters (Correction: and *does* now cover polytonic Greek) is has very good coverage of Latin, symbols, … Continue reading →

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Type Greek

Posted on 2007-05-01 by scaife

Type Greek is a web-based software tool that converts text from a standard keyboard into beautiful, polytonic Greek characters as you type. Using an easy-to-learn and standardized system called beta code, TypeGreek converts your keystrokes into Unicode-compliant Greek in real-time… … Continue reading →

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Social Scholarship on the Rise

Posted on 2007-05-01 by scaife

Laura Cohen on her Library 2.0 blog offers a useful set of criteria for thinking about social scholarship: As an academic librarian, I’ve been trying to get a handle on the emerging parameters of social scholarship. This is the practice … Continue reading →

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Propylaeum-DOK

Posted on 2007-04-27 by chuckjones

An interesting new project at Heidelberg: “Propylaeum-DOK, der Volltextserver der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaft, Propylaeum wird von der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg bereitgestellt. Die Publikationsplattform bietet Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern weltweit die Möglichkeit, ihre Veröffentlichungen aus allen Fachbereichen der Altertumswissenschaften kostenlos und in elektronischer … 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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