Category Archives: General

“Descriptive Metadata for Copyright Status”

Posted on 2005-10-20 by chuckjones

An interesting article in First Monday proposes that a set of descriptive data elements could accompany digital materials to inform potential users of the copyright status of the item. It concludes: “Adding descriptive data elements for copyright status to the … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on New Standards

Posted on 2005-10-19 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen in Slashdot) A discussion over on IBM Developer Works on the adoption of new standards before they are established standards. Some useful discussion of the pitfalls as well as the advantages of such practices, that we might take into … Continue reading →

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VR Athens Agora

Posted on 2005-10-19 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen on Rogueclassicism; from AME) The Foundation for the Hellenic World will be launching a large immersive VR of the ancient Athenian Agora as part of the Hellenic Cosmos site, using the Silicon Graphics Prism tool from SGI. This is … Continue reading →

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Subversion client

Posted on 2005-10-18 by scaife

Just found a quick way to get a Subversion client going on a Mac that hasn’t got Fink on it, here at Metissian.com. (Also here.) Click to install the package, check /etc/profile to be sure /usr/local/bin is in the path, … Continue reading →

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D-Lib

Posted on 2005-10-17 by scaife

Juicy stuff in D-Lib this month: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora … Continue reading →

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BB devours WebCT

Posted on 2005-10-13 by scaife

Bryan Alexander observes that “BB is the new Microsoft” for the CMS field. Moodle, anyone?

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Care to comment on a Greek font?

Posted on 2005-10-13 by chuckjones

The Society of Biblcal Literature [SBL] has an interesting model for the development of fonts that are “… attractive and legible on computer screens and in print, include characters and symbols found in critical editions, display complex scripts, and transfer … Continue reading →

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Another institution goes open access

Posted on 2005-10-13 by chuckjones

The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago announced a new publication policy yesterday: “Starting in 2005, the Oriental Institute is committed to digitizing all of its publications and making them available online, without charge. The minimum for each volume, … Continue reading →

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Rollyo

Posted on 2005-10-11 by scaife

Folks who recall the now-defunct Argos LASE (limited area search engine) may be interested in Klaus Graf‘s experiments with Rollyo, a site that lets you limit search results to certain sources. Klaus has now created a neo-Latin Rollyo, and an … Continue reading →

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CLiP CFP

Posted on 2005-10-11 by scaife

The 7th Computers, Literature and Philology (CLiP) conference: ‘Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world’ Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, UK Thursday 29 June – Saturday 1 July 2006 https://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ ABOUT CLiP

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“restless, question-driven, active reading”

Posted on 2005-10-07 by scaife

Gregory Crane, Reading in the Age of Google As staggering as some changes have been over the past twenty-five years, it is difficult to predict what we will be reading in fifteen, ten, or even five years’ time. Subsequent developments … Continue reading →

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“not exactly dignified”

Posted on 2005-10-06 by scaife

Henry Farrell in the CHE: Both group blogs and the many hundreds of individual academic blogs that have been created in the last three years are pioneering something new and exciting. They’re the seeds of a collective conversation, which draws … Continue reading →

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Anti-spam

Posted on 2005-10-06 by scaife

After installing Spam Karma 2 (a WordPress plugin), I’ve turned comments on as the default for this blog. We’ll see how it goes…

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The Journal of Electronic Publishing

Posted on 2005-10-06 by ioannisg

The Journal of Electronic Publishing is an online journal published by the Michigan University Press. Publisher’s note Electronic publishing is changing the world we live in. It is changing what publishers do. It is changing the way scientists, business people, … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons: problems with -NC licenses

Posted on 2005-10-05 by scaife

Erik Möller, “Are Creative Commons-NC Licenses Harmful?” Podcasting News, October 4, 2005. Excerpt (via Peter Suber): When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity behind the free content movement….One … Continue reading →

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