Category Archives: General

more photographs from Troels Myrup Kristensen

Posted on 2005-11-23 by scaife

Troels takes great pictures, and just recently he’s added a bunch more from Italy and Spain.

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New and better neo-Latin podcasts

Posted on 2005-11-23 by scaife

The podcasting project mentioned here a few days ago continues, with some much improved techniques and voices (notice I’m not one of them this time!): Erasmus, Echo. Readers: William du Cassé and Milena Minkova Erasmus, Abbatis et Eruditae. Readers: William … Continue reading →

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Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries

Posted on 2005-11-21 by chuckjones

In late October the Association of Research Libraries Forum, the Coalition for Networked Information the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Digital Library Federation held a forum ehtitled Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries. The keynote … Continue reading →

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Learning Sites

Posted on 2005-11-19 by scaife

Via RogueClassicism, a longish and worthwhile article about Don Sanders and his LearningSites company, which produces archaeological VR projects.

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Latin podcasting experiment

Posted on 2005-11-13 by scaife

William du Cassé (who’s enrolled in the flourishing UK Institute for Latin Studies) and I began a site this week for publication of recordings of neo-Latin colloquia saved as mp3 files. Should you want to keep track of new additions … Continue reading →

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Cyberinfrastructure draft report available for comment

Posted on 2005-11-10 by scaife

In this morning’s mail bag: The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment, at https://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/acls-ci-public.pdf The file is about 2.4MB in size. The Commission … Continue reading →

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Allowable values for “language” in RSS feeds…

Posted on 2005-11-10 by scaife

… do not include Latin, apparently.

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OCA vs. Google Library

Posted on 2005-11-02 by scaife

Peter Suber compares the Open Content Alliance with Google Library in the most recent SPARC Open Access Newsletter (#91 November 2, 2005).

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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Posted on 2005-10-31 by chuckjones

Perhaps it just snuck by me, but I have no recollection of an announcement of the availability online of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. It seems that all of the out-of -print volumes of the CVA (a couple of hundred volumes?!?) … Continue reading →

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archaeocommons?

Posted on 2005-10-31 by chuckjones

Appearing to be mostly a set of screen shots, Archaeocommons seems nevertheless to be an interesting emerging entity. This organization is one of the ventúres of Eric Kansa, who has written an interesting paper on“Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Expanding Access … Continue reading →

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Google vs. the World

Posted on 2005-10-25 by chuckjones

From his piece “Books of Revelation” in The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2005, reproduced at googleblog: …Imagine the cultural impact of putting tens of millions of previously inaccessible volumes into one vast index, every word of which is searchable … Continue reading →

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World Wide Greek

Posted on 2005-10-24 by scaife

Learning Ancient Greek is the interactive, online complement to Cecelia Luschnig’s An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach. An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach is a traditional beginner’s text, written in a conversational tone, as though between … Continue reading →

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Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication

Posted on 2005-10-24 by chuckjones

Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication “…The purpose of this organization shall be to unite all persons interested in the intersection between classical studies, libraries, and scholarly communication, in order to promote timely exchange of information and ideas and … Continue reading →

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Kevin Drum on Google vs. the World

Posted on 2005-10-22 by scaife

If it were up to me, I’d vote with the public interest. I sometimes feel that if the increasingly expansive view of copyright asserted today had been around a couple of centuries ago, the Supreme Court would have ruled that … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities Quarterly

Posted on 2005-10-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for Submissions Digital Humanities Quarterly Submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions@digitalhumanities.org. … Continue reading →

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