Category Archives: General

New book on OA

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from the mailbox: A new book, documenting the major strands and issues of open access, will be published 17th July. Jacobs, N., Eds. (2006) Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Chandos It covers the rationale, history, economics, technology … Continue reading →

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A URL to open Google Earth directly to a given location…

Posted on 2006-06-25 by scaife

… would look like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=rome,italy&ie=UTF8&om=1=&output=kml

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“Books will disappear”

Posted on 2006-06-07 by Gabriel Bodard

Provocative article from the Guardian titled ‘Books will disappear. Print is where words go to die’: We need to kill the book to save books. Now relax. I’m not suggesting burning books, nor replacing them with electronic gizmos in some … Continue reading →

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blog.ac.uk conference 2006

Posted on 2006-06-06 by smahony

London 2nd June 2006: “The first UK educational blogging & web 2.0 conference bringing together practitioner and research based expertise to explore cutting edge issues surrounding the educational use of weblogs and social software.” For details see: http://www.incsub.org/edublog/ The two … Continue reading →

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CLiP 2006

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

from Humanist: We are pleased to announce that the full programme for CLiP 2006 “Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world” conference is now available on the conference website at http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/programme/full.html

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Dynamic Maps

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

from Humanist: A new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/ This issue’s theme is Dynamic maps, and it is guest edited by Patrik Svensson. Digital maps offer exciting new possibilities for humanities and social … Continue reading →

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Digital Tools for the Humanities: final report

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

The final report of a summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities is available now.

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A new Blog: Digging Digitally

Posted on 2006-05-31 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa of The Alexandria Archive Initiative, has initiated a new blog Digging Digitally: Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education on behelf of the Digital Data Interest Group of the SAA. “DDIG members can use this blog to … Continue reading →

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Pamphlet on web services

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

from Current Cites: Breeding, Marshall. Web Services and the Service-Oriented Architecture Chicago, IL: ALA TechSource, 2006. – The advent of XML and protocols such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) which uses it are transforming the way our computer … Continue reading →

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Homeric Catalogue of Ships in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Bret Mulligan sends word that he has begun a set of placemarks for the major contingents named in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, II.494-760).

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Update: Aegean Bronze Age in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-27 by scaife

I’ve added many more placemarks and grouped them by category (e.g. palaces, peak sanctuaries, Cycladic sites) in subfolders which may be turned on or off (depending on what you want to see) in the left panel of the Google Earth … Continue reading →

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Picasa for Linux

Posted on 2006-05-26 by scaife

Google releases a version of its image managment system for Linux.

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Pottery processing

Posted on 2006-05-25 by scaife

Posted at the request of Peter Pavúk: Dear friends and colleagues. We would like to invite speakers for our joint session on modern approaches to pottery processing. For full abstract check out the following link, please, but do not hesitate … Continue reading →

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What is computer literacy?

Posted on 2006-05-24 by Gabriel Bodard

Discussion started in Slashdot today: By Cliff on where’s-the-on-switch rbannon asks: “Computer literacy is becoming an increasingly used term in education, and more and more schools are being asked to set computer literacy goals for their students. Unfortunately for too … Continue reading →

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Minoan Crete in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-22 by scaife

Today I spent some time associating placemarks for Minoan sites with scholarly resources. The file could obviously be developed much further but even now it may have some utility. I posted it to the Google Earth Community forum, whence it … Continue reading →

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