Category Archives: General

Digital Humanities from the horse’s mouth…

Posted on 2008-07-09 by Gabriel Bodard

L’Observatoire Critique have posted a series of interviews recorded at the recent Digital Humanities conference in Oulu, Finland. Two questions were posed of each respondent: First Question. What are your colleagues (in your department, in your university, or in your … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 2 Comments

9th International Art Conference on Non-destructive Investigation and Analysis, Jerusalem, May 25-30

Posted on 2008-04-17 by dporter

From the Chairman’s Letter: The main objective of Art2008 is to bring together experts in non-destructive evaluation and material analysis with professionals from the fields of preservation of cultural heritage, archeology, art history and architectural researchers of ancient structures. Non-destructive … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Whither scholarly digitization efforts?

Posted on 2008-04-03 by Tom Elliott

One of the authors at Thoughts on Antiquity has posted a provocative reflection on a long-standing effort to digitize an out-of-copyright translation of Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on Luke. In light of technological change, the big book-scanning projects and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital library, General | 1 Comment

DHI Now Known as Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

Posted on 2008-03-25 by dporter

Not specifically classics, but this news from the National Endowment for the Humanities should be of interest, at least to those of us in the US: The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) has been made permanent, and is now the Office … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Grants | Leave a comment

Digital Classicist seminars update

Posted on 2008-03-25 by smahony

To bring you all up to date with what is going on with the Digital Classicist seminar series: Some papers from the DC seminar series held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in the summer of 2006 have … Continue reading →

Posted in Events, General, Publications | Leave a comment

Ross Scaife Memorial Services

Posted on 2008-03-21 by dporter

There will be two memorial services held in honor of Ross Scaife. The first will be held at Belmont (the home and studio of Fredericksburg artist Gari Melchers) in Fredericksburg, Virginia on Wednesday, April 2, at 2 pm (http://www.umw.edu/gari_melchers/). The … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 1 Comment

Ross Scaife (1960-2008)

Posted on 2008-03-18 by dporter

Allen Ross Scaife, 47, Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and founding editor of the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities, died of cancer on March 15, at his home in Lexington, Kentucky. Ross was born … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 40 Comments

Palaeographic Image Markup Tools

Posted on 2008-02-19 by melissa

Does anyone know of any prior work in the area of image markup tools, to enable scholars to markup letterforms (and their constituent strokes) on images of texts? There is the UVic Image Markup tool: http://www.tapor.uvic.ca/~mholmes/image_markup/index.php and the Edition Production … Continue reading →

Posted in General | 4 Comments

Post-doctoral positions and PhD fellowships

Posted on 2008-02-18 by smahony

Seen and copied from Humanist: Post-doctoral positions and PhD fellowships in Text Classification and Automatic Labelling The Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin is looking for applications for ONE Postdoctoral positions and TWO PhD positions in the areas … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Archaeoinformatics Survey: Current Conditions and Needs in the Field

Posted on 2008-01-08 by Tom Elliott

Noticed by way of Antiquist: As part of its initiative to develop a cyberinfrastructure, Archaeoinformatics.org is interested in obtaining input on the current conditions and needs in the field. To that end the consortium, working with the SAA Digital Archaeology … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Technology Collaboration Awards

Posted on 2007-12-15 by scaife

An announcement from Mellow (via the CHE): Five universities were among the 10 winners of the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, announced this week. They will share $650,000 in prize money for “leadership in the collaborative development of open-source software … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Projects | Leave a comment

Tinctoris Updates

Posted on 2007-12-11 by scaife

Ron Woodley of the Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University has updated his site on the Renaissance music theorist Tinctoris published here on the Stoa: Two new treatise texts by Tinctoris are added, relating to technical aspects of late medieval … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Publications | Leave a comment

Beacon

Posted on 2007-12-03 by scaife

Just awful.  More here: …the bottom line is that Facebook is materially misrepresenting the privacy impact of their Beacon program, and presenting users with the appearance of control over their information when in fact they have almost none.

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Kindle

Posted on 2007-11-19 by scaife

Can Amazon succeed where others have found little traction so far?  I already spend so much time reading freely available materials (journal articles, blogs, magazines, reviews) with my trusty Macbook Pro that I feel no need at all for a … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Tools | 1 Comment

Perseus code goes Open Source!

Posted on 2007-11-13 by scaife

From Greg Crane comes the much-anticipated word that all of the hopper code and much of the content in Perseus is now officially open sourced: November 9, 2007: o *Install Perseus 4.0 on your computer*: All of the source code … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Source, Projects, Tools | 13 Comments