Category Archives: General

Our Cultural Commonwealth

Posted on 2006-12-21 by scaife

From the ACLS: The ACLS is pleased to announce that “Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences” was released December 13, 2006. In 2004, ACLS … Continue reading →

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Response to APA/AIA statement

Posted on 2006-12-21 by scaife

A joint APA-AIA Task Force on Electronic Publication has issued a call for comments on its statement. (There’s also a draft summary of issues and possible recommendations.) Greg Crane (Editor in Chief of the Perseus Digital Library) has offered a … Continue reading →

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3D and Museum Exhibitions

Posted on 2006-12-20 by scaife

From Current Cites: Entlich, Richard. “The Missing Dimension in Web-based Museum Exhibitions: Obstacles to Adding Depth to Digital Data” RLG DigiNews 10(6)(15 December 2006). – This “FAQ” feature in RLG DigiNews “provides a brief discussion about the development of 3D … Continue reading →

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Mass digitization of books

Posted on 2006-12-20 by scaife

From Current Cites: Coyle, Karen. “Mass Digitization of Books” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32(6)(November 2006): 641-645. – A very well done overview of mass and near-mass digitization of books by Google, the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft, Project Gutenberg, and … Continue reading →

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Greg Crane on CNN

Posted on 2006-12-20 by scaife

From Google library: Open culture? The University of California, which also belongs to the Open Content Alliance, has no regrets about allowing Google to scan at least 2.5 million of the books in its libraries. “We felt like we could … Continue reading →

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Response to APA/AIA

Posted on 2006-12-20 by Gabriel Bodard

A joint APA-AIA Task Force on Electronic Publication has issued a call for comments on its statement. (There’s also a a draft summary of issues and possible recommendations. Greg Crane (Editor in Chief of the Perseus Digital Library) has offered … Continue reading →

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Intel developing electronic Qur’an

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

from Engadget: The device, known as the E-Quran, is a handheld, low-power computer … which contains the full text of the Islamic holy book along with audio versions in 40 languages and interactive, interpretive material.

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New technologies for Euclid’s Elements

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Greg Crane points out a new paper by Mark J. Schiefsky: The specific purpose of this paper is to describe a set of new software tools and some of their applications to the study of Euclid’s Elements. More generally, it … Continue reading →

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Threats to Preservation

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 lists some Bad Things That Can Happen Media failure Hardware failure Software failure Network failure Obsolescence Natural Disaster Operator error Internal Attack External Attack Organization Failure Economic Failure and she notes that LOCKSS is one … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web podcasts

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Keith Alexander at Semantic Humanities is compiling a list of podcasts on the theme of the Semantic Web.

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CAA 2007

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

The Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) to be held in Berlin in April is still accepting papers and registrations. It is the aim of the conference to bring together experts from various disciplines to … Continue reading →

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Call for examples from “TEI by Example”

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) https://www.kantl.be/ctb/ of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) https://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ of King’s College London, and the School for Library, Archive, and Information … Continue reading →

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Grumentum: latest from Troels Myrup

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

Troels Myrup has added new images to the Stoa Image Gallery: I’ve added photos from Grumentum in Lucania (Southern Italy) to the Stoa Gallery. Charming place but fairly remote. It’s kind of hard to think that tourists will ever come … Continue reading →

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Flash Earth

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

Use Flash Earth to try different mapping sites conveniently to see which has the best imagery for the site in which you are interested.

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Chiron web: collaborative Classics

Posted on 2006-12-03 by scaife

A very welcome announcement in the mail today: I would like to communicate with you the birth of a new collaborative site, so that you can announce it at www.stoa.org: Name: Chiron URL: https://www.chironweb.org/ The site is made by (and … Continue reading →

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