Category Archives: General

Ten days after it was begun, the Stoa Image Gallery at www.stoa.org offers 1023 publicly available images in 5 top-level albums (49 albums total). Coverage includes: Nashville Parthenon (83 new images) Greece (Athens, Piraeus, sites on Crete and in the … Continue reading →

There are over 130 digital photographs in Stephen Arnold’s new album on the Stoa Image Gallery, including a great many North African mosaics. And he’s got a lot more on the way. Stephen’s image of the Vergil Mosiac in the … Continue reading →

APA Vice President Barbara McManus sends along some thoughts on the current state of affairs at the APA regarding electronic publication. Although the American Philological Association was a very early leader in the publication of “machine-readable” texts and has supported … Continue reading →

Today we announce availability of the new Stoa Image Gallery, an Open Access repository for digital images and video related to Classics, Classical Archaeology, and the classical tradition. We have implemented this project on a dedicated server running Gallery image-management … Continue reading →

UBIQUITY: So should everybody in the world have his or her own blog? ITO: A lot of it has to do with what the definition of a blog is, but to generalize what a blog is, you might think of … Continue reading →

Ryan Gabbard has recently begun a new and interesting collaborative project: The goal of the Open Audiobooks Project is for volunteers to work together to create audio books of public domain texts for people to freely download, distribute, and modify. … Continue reading →

From the CHE: A glance at the July issue of The Americas: The scholar’s role in building online-resource collections Scholars should embrace the chance to work with archivists to build online research centers, which can provide “resources that would be … Continue reading →

According to BBC: Call for freely available science, a Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons wants: publicly funded research to be made freely available online by means of archived digital information banks [and urges] the government … Continue reading →

In a recent post to Sogdian-L, John Hill announced the on-line availability of the first draft of his annotated translation of the Weilue, a 3rd century CE Chinese text that, among other things, preserves unique information about maritime routes to … Continue reading →

Peter Heslin writes that he has updated Diogenes, his freeware (GPL) tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. Here’s … Continue reading →

Worth reading, I think, is Graham Lampa’s “Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing” but I do wonder about the level of historical perspective in comments like this: The low-cost appeal of instant publishing promotes … Continue reading →

Interesting thoughts in an email from Neel Smith: Microsoft is selling through Amazon its copyrighted version of the U.S. Constitution. (Honest — there’s no way I could make up stuff this good.) I gather that the copyright claims are based … Continue reading →

from Ralph Mathisen: The third biennial conference on the topic of “Ancient Studies — New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies” will be held December 3-5, 2004, at James … Continue reading →

https://www.stoa.org/bible/bible.pl This project was written to facilitate the writing of the dissertation of Michael Jones, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge. All of the material in this database has been available in print form for some time; but … Continue reading →

Hat tip to Debra Hamel for the notice of Martialis: the Epigrams of Martial: This is an insanely ambitious project. On this blog I intend to present the Latin text and an English translation of all the epigrams of the … Continue reading →