Category Archives: General

What they listen to in hell on their ipods

Posted on 2006-04-07 by scaife

Tax Code Podcast ????

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EpiDoc Development Sprint: more

Posted on 2006-04-07 by Tom Elliott

As a follow-up to my previous post detailing the achievements of the first half of an “EpiDoc Development Sprint” in London (20-24 March 2006), I would like to offer the following summary of achievements during the second (and final) two-day … Continue reading →

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Etymologies on iPod (CHE)

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

A company called iPREPpress that has already created a line of iPod-ready crib notes for great literary works now hopes to turn students’ MP3 players into veritable reference shelves. The company has joined forces with Merriam-Webster Inc. to release a … Continue reading →

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JIIA Eprints Repository

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

Antonella D’Ascoli informa  dell’attivazione del JIIA Eprints Repository https://eprints.jiia.it/, Repository collegato al ‘Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology’ https://www.jiia.it, in data 2006-04-04 registrato presso le Autorità competenti, quindi presente nei seguenti elenchi: https://www.eprints.org/software/archives/ https://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites https://re.cs.uct.ac.za/ Il precedente MyOPIA JIIA Repository (a seguito di … Continue reading →

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They’re getting…

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

… desperate! Ray Cha concludes: In the end, I agree with Ben’s previous post that the Nature article in question has a marginal relevance to the bigger picture. The main point is that Wikipedia works amazingly well and contains articles … Continue reading →

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

Thanks to Peter Suber for pointing to Kate Corby’s review of Willinsky, John. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. It is unfortunate that many academics feel that assuring … Continue reading →

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Zeus remembers Cronos

Posted on 2006-03-29 by scaife

from “Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes” — “Nobody has tried to swallow us since I’ve been here. I think they are afraid of how we would taste.” — Apple shareholder meeting, April 22, 1998

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Student-Generated Timelines

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

from Academic Commons Student-Generated Timelines In Teaching and Technology Malcolm Brown from Darmouth’s Academic Computing Services polled a list I am on, looking for software to allow students to generate timelines. Owen Ellard from Mt. Holyoke pointed him to the … Continue reading →

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Robot guide for museum visitors

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen at Rogueclassicism) Robot guide for museum visitors Cicerobot to steer tourists round Agrigento museum (ANSA) – Palermo, March 21 A flaming-red robot will soon be guiding tourists round a Sicilian archaeological collection . The 1.5-metre-high robot, named Cicerobot by … Continue reading →

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MT

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

The March 2006 issue of Scientific American includes: The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation Statistical methods hold the promise of moving computerized translation out of the doldrums By Gary Stix (subscription only, or buy the print version)

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EpiDoc Development Sprint

Posted on 2006-03-22 by Tom Elliott

During the week of 20-24 March, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College (London) is playing host to a group of EpiDoc practitioners and Text Encoding Initiative experts for the purpose of an “EpiDoc Development Sprint.” This … Continue reading →

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Most convincing endorsement of Creative Commons I have seen

Posted on 2006-03-22 by Gabriel Bodard

This week’s New Scientist has an interview with Cameron Sinclair, award-winning architect, founder of Architecture for Humanity, and winner of the Technology Entertainment Design conference award, who plans to spend the $100 000 prize building an open source databank of … Continue reading →

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Nature special on the future of scientific computing

Posted on 2006-03-22 by scaife

At every humanities computing-related meeting I’ve been to over the past year, someone exhorts us to “have a good look at what the scientists are doing.” Nature magazine has just published a special edition with useful articles towards that end: … Continue reading →

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Virtual Humanities Lab

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Geoff Rockwell notes the arrival of Vika Zafrin’s NEH-funded Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown, an interface for the display, annotation, and discussion of semantically encoded texts.

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DMCA: Circumventing Competition

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Timothy B. Lee Executive Summary The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed … Continue reading →

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