Category Archives: General

Google maps for timelines

Posted on 2006-08-09 by juangarces

From Semantic Humanities: Simile at MIT have recently come up with a timeline widget api – google maps for timelines. It lets you plot events and time ranges (taken from either XML or JSON) onto timelines, and it’s all pretty … Continue reading →

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Good question!

Posted on 2006-08-08 by scaife

What’s wrong with this picture? By Peter Suber The UK National Archives has digitized The Domesday Book, “the earliest surviving public record” in British history.The book is in the public domain and the digitization was done at public expense, but … Continue reading →

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DAI Archaeological Bibliography goes OA

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

Sayonara, Dyabola: We would like to inform you that the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) compiles the four most important Bibliographies on archaeology: Archaeological Bibliography (Realkatalog) Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula Subject catalogue of the Roman-German Commission Bibliography … Continue reading →

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Network links for showing geotagged photos in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

I think it would be interesting for an ASCSA regular member to use this techique with photographs taken during the fall and winter trips.

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Creating ebooks with open source tools

Posted on 2006-08-02 by scaife

The TeleRead blog points to what looks like a useful Newsforge article about the the Sunrise desktop conversion tool and the Plucker reader.

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Intute

Posted on 2006-08-01 by scaife

from the mailbag: Dear Prof. Scaife, I forward to you as editor of the Stoa Consortium the announcement of the launch of Intute, a free online service that may be of interest to the readers of the Stoa.org blog. Intute … Continue reading →

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Surprising History of Copyright

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

This Thursday, 27 July 2006, Karl Fogel (of Google) is scheduled to chair a session at OSCON entitled: The (Surprising) History of Copyright, and What It Means for Open Source. You can view the abstract online, whence the following: Much … Continue reading →

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Preservation Watch Report

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

Via the JISC-Repositories list comes notice of a report summarizing some current initiatives in digital preservation. This is one of a growing list of reports produced by the Jorum Repository Service.

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British Library expresses concern about the impact of DRMs on access, fair dealing and digital preservation

Posted on 2006-07-25 by juangarces

From the British Library comes an interesting press release: The British Library’s Chief Executive this week warned of some of the unintended consequences of the widespread adoption of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems and urged policymakers to balance the rights … Continue reading →

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Current hypertext model only meant to be temporary

Posted on 2006-07-25 by juangarces

In an interesting letter in the New Scientist (22 July 2006, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125610.300.html), Ted Nelson, ‘inventor’ of the term hypertext, looks back at a project designing a hypertext system at Brown University in the 1960s. He decries the currently existing hypertext … Continue reading →

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U.S. NEH Announces ‘Digital Humanities Initiative’

Posted on 2006-07-19 by Tom Elliott

NEH has launched a new digital humanities initiative aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology … NEH is interested in fostering the growth of digital humanities and lending support to a wide variety of … Continue reading →

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Classics-l gets a blog (and feeds)

Posted on 2006-07-18 by Tom Elliott

“Home of the Classics Discussion List” The blog : https://www.classics-l.info/ (rss and atom feeds prominently linked) Noted thereupon: link to an RSS feed for the listserv itself

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Open Access on the ANE-2 List

Posted on 2006-07-17 by Tom Elliott

A subscriber to the ANE-2 List has reposted there, with permission, an e-circular attributed to the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation [MSSRF] (Chennai, India) which calls for the: [proactive promotion] of ‘open access’ to scientific and scholarly literature so even … Continue reading →

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Aristarchos

Posted on 2006-07-16 by ioannisg

Aristarchos is a freeware program that allows the user to search for abbreviations commonly used for periodicals, series and monographs in archaeology. https://www.archeolinks.com/aristarchos.htm

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The “dread fear”

Posted on 2006-07-13 by scaife

Would that everyone were as cool-headed about the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as Roy Rosenzweig. But as Infocult’s Bryan Alexander comments today on a Washington Post article: “In educational settings, I’m still getting signals that the Wikipedia is a … Continue reading →

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