Category Archives: General

Open Access Pantheon

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

From Neel Smith comes word of The Pantheon Project – The Pilot Project of the Karman Center. Definitely worth a look, with very nice OA policies covering the core project data: … many questions remain concerning the design, construction, statics, … Continue reading →

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UK is on board — how about your institution?

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from Open Access News: Another provost for FRPAA Kumble Subbaswamy, Provost of the University of Kentucky, has added his signature to the SPARC list of U.S. university presidents and provosts endorsing open access to publicly-funded research and the Federal Research … Continue reading →

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A Directory of Academic Blogs, Wiki Style

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from the CHE: How many academic blogs are there? Too many for any one person to keep track of. The popular academic blog Crooked Timber has long maintained a lengthy list of academic blogs. The list had been maintained in … Continue reading →

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Pot, meet kettle

Posted on 2006-11-20 by scaife

This one is pretty rich fare! How many times have we all read ludicrously over-reaching claims of copyright protection for books and electronic resources? And these people want to point fingers at the faculty for not understanding the law? For … Continue reading →

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ePhilology: when the books talk to their readers

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

Curious about where classics might go in a digital world? See the preprint of a new article about ePhilology (by Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University) that will appear in The Blackwell … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

A Mellon-funded working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (dhcs.uchicago.edu) has now issued a position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library. The goal is to consider how the future of … Continue reading →

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Teaching and learning scenarios for Google Earth

Posted on 2006-11-14 by scaife

EduCause has a two-pager, and Google has its own page for educators.

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Open source withstands antitrust scrutiny

Posted on 2006-11-10 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot today: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an opinion in which Judge Easterbrook declares, “[t]he GPL and open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws.” The case is called Wallace v. … Continue reading →

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CHE on historical visualizations

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

With Digital Maps, Historians Chart a New Way Into the Past: A push to make historical data more visual could yield a better understanding of events

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OED changes with the times

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

Worthwhile piece in the NYT on the OED today. An excerpt: The job of a new-words editor felt very different precyberspace, Paton says: “New words weren’t proliferating at quite the rate they have done in the last 10 years. Not … Continue reading →

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Carthage in Wikipedia

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

Amusing blog entry involving Carthage at Infocult, Wikipedia delenda est.

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Audio Files: History and Archaeology Expert Seminar

Posted on 2006-11-01 by Gabriel Bodard

Audio files from the Methods Network Expert Seminar ‘Virtual History and Archaeology’, held at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 19-21 April 2006, are now available. The following audio files are currently available. ‘Using GIS to Study Long-Term Population … Continue reading →

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Sanity

Posted on 2006-10-27 by scaife

Emphasis added: For better or for worse, Wikipedia has become the first destination for many a student researcher. Does the site’s ubiquity mean that professors have a responsibility to contribute? “I feel I have an obligation to do so, at … Continue reading →

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Alouette

Posted on 2006-10-23 by scaife

hangingtogether.org comments on the newly announced Canadian digitization effort called AlouetteCanada. Some of the juicy bits: Billed as an “open digitization initiative,” Alouette shares some common features with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) — not altogether surprising, since founding members … Continue reading →

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On the limits of collaboration

Posted on 2006-10-23 by scaife

There’s a provocative entry by Bob Stein at the if:book blog today on the enduring value of a strong, identifiable point of view.

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