Category Archives: General

Michael Jensen, Presses Have Little to Fear From Google, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2005. discussing the strategy of National Academies Press (hat tip, Open Access News): Every new book we published was scanned and made navigable online, free, … Continue reading →

Troels Myrup Kristensen, who keeps a nice collection of photographs here, has begun a new blog, “Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm,” to track his “thesis-in-progress on early Christian iconoclasm in the fourth century CE.”

Lots of impressive work on display and under discussion at the recent ACH/ALLC in Victoria, as always. Three sessions that particularly caught my attention were 1) VMLA: a system created by Brian Fuchs and others on top of the Digital … Continue reading →

Neil Beagrie, “Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections” D-Lib Magazine 11.6 (June 2005) Extract: The growing abundance of personal data and collection outlined in this article will present numerous challenges to individuals, including: how to … Continue reading →

A message from José M. Ciordia: I am the author of “pompilo”, an Spanish blog. I have built a new one (a more serious derivation of the same), writen in English. The aim of the new blog (Pompilos: http://pompilos.org) is … Continue reading →

GreekTranscoder is a program which converts polytonic Greek characters written using one text encoding into another one. Its primary goal is to allow the conversion of documents using older fonts and encodings into Unicode fonts. However, it also allows converting … Continue reading →

Martin West has an interesting restoration/translation of Sappho in the TLS.

First the law journals, next the Classics journals?

As of version 1.4.0, Diogenes comes with all additional necessary Perl modules pre-installed. This should make it much more straight-forward to install under OS X. And by the way, Diogenes is free software: you are encouraged to modify, improve, and … Continue reading →

See Jeff Rydberg-Cox, “The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium,” D-Lib Magazine 11.5 (May 2005): 1. Introduction For the past three years, the Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium – situated at eight institutions in four countries – has received funding from … Continue reading →

Jeff Rydberg-Cox (University of Missouri-Kansas City) has a new study out in Literary and Linguistic Computing, “Talking About Violence: Clustered Participles in the Speeches of Lysias.” This paper explores the Greek participle and its use in the works of Lysias. … Continue reading →

Peter Gainsford has produced a handy comparison of programs fluent in TLG betacode format.

The Suda On Line, our networked collaborative editing program for Byzantine lexicography, reached an important milestone this week: Progress Report (as of May 6, 2005) Assigned: 17,108 Translated: 16,752 Vetted: 16,752 For the first time, all translated entries have also … Continue reading →

Google’s effort to digitize scholarly libraries is starting to bear fruit. Try “Melian Dialogue,” for instance, or “Erechtheum.” More here. Update: Klaus Graf kindly points out my error in the posting above: “Google Print is a cooperation with publishers, Google … Continue reading →

The TEI Wiki is up and running.