Category Archives: General

Can History Be Open Source?

Posted on 2006-07-13 by Tom Elliott

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has recently posted to the web a long and thoughtful article by Roy Rosenzweig entitled “Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” It was … Continue reading →

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Horologium Ronaldi

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

The sundial of Augustus has now been updated.

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Sagalassos excavations and Google Earth

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

Troels Kristensen (Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm) has a post about resumption of the excavations at Sagalassos and the presentation of that site in Google Earth. The latter is very nicely done, with a map overlay, geophysical map, and pointers … Continue reading →

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Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts UK Conference 2006

Posted on 2006-07-10 by smahony

The programme for the 2006 UK DRHA conference is now available: Sunday September 3rd to Wednesday September 6th, 2006 http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp REGISTRATION: http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/registration/index.asp DRHA2006 will feature: a.. Keynote by Katherine Hayles, author of “Now We Are Posthuman”, “Writing Machines” and “My … Continue reading →

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Four kinds of search for Google Books

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

Yesterday the Inside Google Book Search blog offered details concerning The four ways you’ll see books in Google Book Search.

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Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML … Continue reading →

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Extreme DE: digitizing Calepinus

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Today Wolfgang Schibel (of the phenomenal project CAMENA – Lateinische Texte der Frühen Neuzeit) mentioned to me the Wolfenbüttel images of the Leiden Calepinus ca. 1650. This is a fascinating work for many reasons but my first reaction on seeing … Continue reading →

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TEI by example, initial report, 2006/06/09

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

TEI by example, initial report, 2006/06/09

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Open Context: Sharing Archaeological Data Digitally

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from About Archaeology: A new tool in the open source arsenal announced its beta launch last week. Called Open Context, the project involves scientists from Cambridge University (UK), Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, U.C. Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, … Continue reading →

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Webcast on digital libraries coming up

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President (Research) at OCLC, will be making a presentation at Edinburgh University Library on Monday 3 July 2006: The digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0. Edinburgh University Library. Monday 3 July 2006. … Continue reading →

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From the horse’s mouth

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

For God’s sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, on the plight of students who get in trouble for using bad information they find in his encyclopedia.

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Google Shakespeare, Google Book Search, Google Sketchup model

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Google’s Book Blog (devoted to the Google Book Search project) has an entry on the Google Shakespeare project. This latter site seems to give a good feel for some of the things Google wants to do with its digitized books. … Continue reading →

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Yet another site about Fair Use

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

From the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law: The Fair Use Network

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Jill Coffin: Analysis of open source principles in diverse collaborative communities

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

From Infobits: The June 2006 issue of FIRST MONDAY features selected papers from “FM10 Openness: Code, Science, and Content,” a conference held in May and sponsored by First Monday journal, the University of Illinois at Chicago University Library, and the … Continue reading →

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The Colors of Clay

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from the Scout Report today: 14. The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/colors_clay/homepage.html This web exhibition from The Getty takes you on a gently guided tour of the various ways in which Athenian vase … Continue reading →

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