Category Archives: General

Fair Use vs. Copyright Control

Posted on 2006-01-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Academic Commons: Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control In Fair Use Our new friends at the Institute for the Future of the Book gave me a nifty report called “Will Fair Use … Continue reading →

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Colloquia archive now available on an Open Access basis

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

An archive of over 650 TEI-conformant neo-Latin colloquia is now available via the instance of the new Perseus hopper that’s now implemented on this server, which provides lemmatized searching, morphological parsing and dictionary lookups, and automatic concordances for each text. … Continue reading →

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i2010 Digital Library questions

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) On December 5 – 6, 2005, the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries held a brainstorming meeting in Nice, France, to formulate responses to the i2010 Digital Library questions from the European Commission and to … Continue reading →

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reappearing as if by magic…

Posted on 2006-01-18 by scaife

Thanks to Adrian Packel of the Perseus Digital Library, who has installed the new Perseus hopper on the Stoa production server, the Lane Festschrift as well as materials related to Homer and to Olynthus that have been missing from this … Continue reading →

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new list set up by JISC Digital Repositories Programme

Posted on 2006-01-09 by scaife

From the BOAI list: Members of this list might be interested in a new JISCMAIL discussion list, JISC-REPOSITORIES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, set up by the JISC Digital Repositories Programme support team (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=programme_digital_repositories) for the discussion of cross-domain and international repository technologies and activities, … Continue reading →

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AWMC secures major NEH grant

Posted on 2006-01-06 by scaife

From Tom Elliott comes news of the success of the Pleiades proposal submitted by the Ancient World Mapping Center to the most recent NEH Preservation and Access Research and Development competition. Congratulations!

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yet another initiative for reform

Posted on 2006-01-05 by scaife

From Scott Jaschik, A Tenure Reform Plan With Legs, Inside Higher Ed, January 5, 2006: A special panel of the MLA is finishing a report that will call for numerous, far-reaching changes in the way assistant professors are reviewed for … Continue reading →

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English-Greek Dictionary online at Chicago

Posted on 2006-01-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Rogueclassicism notes that the University of Chicago Library have put online a searchable version of Woodhouse’s English-Greek Dictionary. At first glance, it looks as though this–although it has a bit of a clunky search engine–will be a nice complement to … Continue reading →

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It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing

Posted on 2006-01-04 by scaife

This blog has now been upgraded to the WordPress 2.0 “Duke” release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. No big changes on the surface, but nicer to work with behind the scenes.

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Abzu expanding

Posted on 2006-01-03 by chuckjones

I have begun to expand the scope of Abzu to include Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology in addition to the ancient Near East. Abzu is an index to open access material served from stable platforms. It covers material realting to the … Continue reading →

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“Radical Change for Tenure”

Posted on 2006-01-02 by chuckjones

Peyer Suber reports on Scott Jaschik, Radical Change for Tenure, Inside Higher Ed, December 30, 2005. Jashik sumarizes discussion in a special panel of the MLA focussed on overhaul of tenure review procedures. Among other things, the panel wants departments … Continue reading →

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Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics

Posted on 2005-12-28 by Gabriel Bodard

https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/ Quoted from the site: Publisher: Department of Classics, Princeton University The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the Classics Department of Stanford University. Its purpose is to make … Continue reading →

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BMCR calls for reviewers of electronic publication projects

Posted on 2005-12-22 by scaife

BMCR editors Richard Hamilton and James J. O’Donnell reflect on the paucity of reviews of electronic publications, in BMCR and elsewhere: … we have not sustained a community of practice around serious reviews of web-based publications. This is a concern … Continue reading →

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e-Science Demonstrator Projects

Posted on 2005-12-21 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen on the Methods Network RSS) The E-Science Core Programme, in association with the AHRC, wishes to announce a Call for Proposals for E-Science Demonstrator Projects in the Arts and Humanities. Proposals must be received by EPSRC by midday on … Continue reading →

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Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment. Core recommendations: We need to nurture and validate digital scholarship and digitally literate scholars. We need … Continue reading →

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