Category Archives: General

From Jesse James Garrett, “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications” (February 18, 2005): Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML … Continue reading →

Wired on AJAX (“The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web.”): Software experts say recent innovations in web design are ushering in a new era for internet-based … Continue reading →

Marc Goodacre makes a useful point about funding for open-access biblical studies: If the essential proposal is: how can we get a big project financed?, then there is still a large part of me that just sighs. I have felt … Continue reading →

… experts describe the project as the most ambitious undertaking in the history of human language technology. If it is developed as planned, the first-of-its-kind machine will be able to recognize speech in multiple languages, translate it into English, and … Continue reading →

Interesting comments on measures of success for Wikipedia by Jimbo Wales, guest-blogging at Lawrence Lessig’s site: So, how are we doing? What are the odds of this goal being accomplished in the next 20 years? First, it can be argued … Continue reading →

More on the potential of games in education, from James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief, Innovate: The August/September 2005 of Innovate’s special issue on the role of video game technology in educational settings is now available at https://www.innovateonline.info Innovate is a peer-reviewed, … Continue reading →

Several articles collected by CIT: “Meet the Gamers” By Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler Library Journal.com, April 15, 2005 https://www.libraryjournal.com/article/ca516033.html “In the past, librarians have often been perceived as gatekeepers, arbiters of access to information. The digital cultures now emerging … Continue reading →

In a public announcement from the NEH: Austin, University of Texas, Austin (Collaborative Research) $100,000 Project Director: Michael Gagarin Project Title: The Laws of Ancient Crete Description: Publication, both in print and online, of the Greek texts of extant laws … Continue reading →

The Eton Greek Software Project offers now an online language tool for anyone who is learning classical Greek. On offer is a variety of programs which allow the user to test their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary (some require a … Continue reading →

The Department of Theatre, Whitman College, is now hosting the The Virtual Reality Theatre Tour site, offering visual tours of ancient theaters via panoramic views from several points of view. While still a work in progress (not all listed theaters … Continue reading →

WordPress updated following richly deserved hack of older software. New themes and posts and posters coming soon…

Steven Harnad has a new blog, Open Access Archivangelism: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access at https://openaccess.eprints.org/

From the new issue of D-Lib magazine: Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work William H. Mischo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Where Do We Go From Here? … Continue reading →

David-Artur Daix writes to say that version 1.0.2 of the GreekTranscoder is now available from: https://www.greektranscoder.org “The program has been much improved. The Vilnius University encoding in particular is now supported. A complete version history is available on the web … Continue reading →

The commons-blog quotes an unsigned opinion piece in the Economist: Copyright was originally intended to encourage publication by granting publishers a temporary monopoly on works so they could earn a return on their investment. But the internet and new digital … Continue reading →