Category Archives: General

Folksonomies

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

Is user-based tagging “an idiotic idea whose time has apparently come,” as Roy Tennant puts it in Current Cites?

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Preprint repository for two university classics departments

Posted on 2005-12-19 by scaife

from Peter Suber: Princeton and Stanford have launched Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an OA preprint repository. However, deposits are limited to faculty from the two universities and there’s no sign that it’s OAI-compliant. (Thanks to Josiah Ober via LibLicense.) … Continue reading →

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AIA Computer Special Interest Group meeting in Montreal

Posted on 2005-12-19 by chuckjones

A communication received today: From: John Wallrodt Date: December 17, 2005 11:12:53 PM EST Subject: CSIG Meeting at Montreal All, It is time once again to wake the slumbering AIA Computer Special Interest Group. I apologize for the silence on … Continue reading →

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Good news ahead in the world of GIS

Posted on 2005-12-14 by scaife

Via Peter Suber, a report by Declan Butler on the intricacies of Getting GIS data into Google Earth that concludes: …So the new year looks guaranteed to be a rich period for new GIS and visualization tools. One result, no … Continue reading →

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Text movies for two neo-Latin colloquia

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Dot Porter, Program Coordinator for RCH at UK, has assembled QuickTime movies for certain colloquia (text and audio combined via SMIL files): Erasmus: Abbatis et Eruditae Erasmus: Echo Technically I suppose these aren’t really text movies as Apple defines them, … Continue reading →

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Pim Allison: Roman forts not male-only

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Pim Allison, whose Open Access site on Pompeian Households is hosted here at the Stoa, is in the news: In a unique study, Allison has been analysing patterns of objects found throughout the [Roman] forts that support the presence of … Continue reading →

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New uses for RSS feeds

Posted on 2005-12-08 by scaife

Soon, there may be even more places where you can keep up-to-the-minute on the latest neo-Latin podcasts available.

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Public Scholarship and its evaluation

Posted on 2005-12-04 by scaife

Inside Higher Ed reports formation of a group “that will develop new ways to evaluate faculty members in the arts and humanities.” “What we are going to do is come up with creative ways to evaluate excellence in public scholarship, … Continue reading →

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Latin podcasting update

Posted on 2005-12-03 by scaife

OK, so after getting some advice from people at UK more experienced with audio recording, we’ve upgraded the equipment we use for our Latin podcasting to Behringer Eurorack UB 1202 shielded cable for mixer to audio-in on the computer 2 … Continue reading →

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Mysteries at Eleusis visual image collection

Posted on 2005-12-02 by scaife

Fiona C. Patrick (Project Coordinator, Digital Consulting & Production Services) sends word of the following: Cornell University Library is pleased to announce the availability of “Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions,” a digital collection of approximately 800 images from the … Continue reading →

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Classics and Institutional Repositories

Posted on 2005-12-01 by chuckjones

Peter Suber has a Report on the ALPSP-SSP seminar in The SPARC Open Access Newsletter discussing Repositories and their impact on publishing. My impression is that serious use of institutional repositories has yet to emerge among scholars of Classics and … Continue reading →

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Digital CHASS Conference

Posted on 2005-11-30 by scaife

Digital CHASS Conference On Friday, December 9, EPIC’s Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS) Virtual Institute will host an all-day conference focused on digital tools. This event will be an information exchange among scholars in humanities, arts, social … Continue reading →

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Yes, but will they know any Latin?

Posted on 2005-11-30 by scaife

From Wired, “Podcast Chaos Be Gone“: Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching. It’s a significant step above traditional search engines that identify only keywords in … Continue reading →

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Gentium released under the SIL Open Font License

Posted on 2005-11-29 by scaife

Gentium has now been re-released under a license that permits modification and redistribution – the SIL Open Font License. This is an exciting new development that will give great freedom to people who find Gentium useful, and the freedom to … Continue reading →

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Feminism and Classics 2004

Posted on 2005-11-25 by scaife

Marilyn Skinner has completed editorial work on a peer-reviewed collection of essays, Gender and Diversity in Place: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Feminism and Classics, May 27-30, 2004, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona. These essays are now published as … Continue reading →

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