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Launch of CIRCE Manual
Report from Steve Kimberley, Cambridge: Report of the launch of the CIRCE manual – 21 April 2006; IBM, London. On 21 April, I attended the launch of the CIRCE manual at IBM’s South Bank premises, a corporate facility of the … Continue reading
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Luminous Lint
Luminous Lint hopes “to create the world‘s leading collaborative knowledge-base for the history of photography showing significant vintage and contemporary photography.” They already have a developing theme on Early landscape photography of the Classical World, and on photographers such as … Continue reading
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SketchUp’ed Acropolis in Google Earth
A couple of days ago I blogged that it would be useful to recreate ancient sites with SketchUp and make the results available within Google Earth. Actually it turns out that the Athenian Acropolis (sans Erechtheion) is already available among … Continue reading
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Google Maps in Europe
From the Google blog: We’re excited to announce that we have just launched beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These sites include the full suite of interactive street maps, driving directions, and integrated local business … Continue reading
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“The original of this replica is now in the Berlin Museum.”
Large 3D printer required.
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SketchUp plus GoogleEarth for modeling of buildings from Olynthus, Pompeii, the Acropolis…
Idea for a new collaborative project: we need to be able to zoom in with GoogleEarth to various archaeological sites and see a collection of 3D study models sitting in place there. SketchUp Google Earth 3D Warehouse Here’s a short … Continue reading
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EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML
There’s a new home on SourceForge for Epidoc, and the Epidoc guidelines themselves are available here on the Stoa server. Principles: Five important principles have governed the elaboration of EpiDoc techniques and tools from the beginning: EpiDoc and its tools … Continue reading
The Geography of Artemidoros
Dorothy King has a blog entry on the rediscovery of this Geography on papyrus, otherwise known from quotations in Strabo. Related podcasts: New Technology Unlocks Ancient Texts, and The Greatest Hits of Ancient Garbage.
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Rome Total War
Patrick Porter of Oxblog likes it: Desperate to invade Egypt, my faction of the Brutii kept getting its navy sunk. I couldn’t transport my battle-hungry legions from Crete to North Africa. So I had to build a bigger navy. Which … Continue reading
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Gospel of Judas Megapost
Mark Goodacre has a Gospel of Judas megapost that ought to offer enough for even the most avid followers of this topic.
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Musematic
Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM’s Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade.
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European Journal of Archaeology blog
The European Journal of Archaeology (an official publication of the European Association of Archaeologists) has recently acquired its own weblog available at https://eja.e-a-a.org/ The blog offers among other things new book reviews available in the EJA, news and call for … Continue reading
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11th International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies” – call for papers
Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (Workshop 11 „Archäologie und Computer“) Oktober 18th– 20th, 2006 City Hall of Vienna, Austria– Wappensaalgruppe Why document and analyse Cultural Heritage with modern technologies? with Symposia: “Cultural Heritage- Funding and New Technologies” (in cooperation with … Continue reading
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ETANA-DL project
Some of you may find this documentation on the ETANA-DL project (with which I am marginally connected) interesting. This DL part of this project is headed by Ed Fox at Virginia Tech. “This research proposes to develop a digital library … Continue reading
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Ancient history podcasts
Numerous topics from the ancient world at Military History Podcasts: Alexander the Great, Roman tactics, Pharsalus, Roman defeats, conquests of Cyrus the Great, Persian Wars, Sargon, Hannibal, Valor… Also: Lars Brownworth’s 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire.
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