Category Archives: General

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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Code of Conduct for Internet Censorship

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in last week’s New Scientist: Internet companies are poised to launch a code of conduct governing their operations in China. Web firms have faced sustained criticism for their activities in China, which include censoring websites. So Yahoo, Google, Microsoft … 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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Why Can’t a Wiki Be More Like a Blog?

Posted on 2006-12-28 by scaife

Thoughts on new blog/wiki hybrids from the Library 2.0 blog.

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Requirements for mass digitization projects

Posted on 2006-12-28 by scaife

Joseph J. Esposito has a post on the liblicense-l list at Yale wherein he makes some points worth bearing in mind: My concern is a practical one: Some projects are incomplete in their design, which will likely result in their … Continue reading →

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Under the tree

Posted on 2006-12-26 by scaife

My wife just gave me a copy of John Maeda’s The Laws of Simplicity, a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while. Maeda, whom I heard once at an ACH-ALLC meeting in Georgia, ranks on my top-three list … Continue reading →

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Gotta separate the wheat from the chaff

Posted on 2006-12-26 by scaife

George Will, criticizing Time magazine’s choice of Person of the Year, notes that “Most bloggers have the private purpose of expressing themselves for their own satisfaction.” No doubt that’s a true statement, strictly speaking, but even a few notable counter-examples … Continue reading →

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Archimedes, again

Posted on 2006-12-26 by scaife

Yet another piece on the the Archimedes palimpsest, this one in the L. A. Times. “The team made progress on a few pages, but it may take decades — or longer — before technologies are developed that can unveil all … Continue reading →

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Grassroots book-scanning for uncompromising OA

Posted on 2006-12-23 by scaife

As complaints multiply about quality control in the Google book scanning initiative, this sort of approach begun by Nicholas Hodson looks increasingly promising to me.  (Had to laugh about the blue and the pink coding, though!)

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