Category Archives: General

Instant-on startup screens

Posted on 2007-10-10 by scaife

Ashlee Vance (by way of Siva Vaidhyanatha) discusses Splashtop from DeviceVM: … one must suspect that Microsoft is none too pleased to see a plucky start-up trying to gain first touch with customers. It could be very frustrating for Redmond … Continue reading →

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Mutatis mutandis

Posted on 2007-10-09 by scaife

Laura Cohen’s post at Library 2.0: an academic’s perspective sets out some reasons for a “training wheels culture” in librarianship. I think folks in the humanities will recognize the syndrome as well: Experience. If you’ve had little experience learning technology … Continue reading →

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More like this, please

Posted on 2007-10-02 by scaife

From A. A. Adams, Copyright and research: an archivangelist’s perspective, SCRIPT-ed, September 2007: To be an academic carries with it a great deal of freedom, or at least it should. At a time when pressures on academic freedom are rife, … Continue reading →

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English-Latin-English dictionaries

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

from the mailbag: My name is Silvio and I’ve recently concluded a set of English-Latin-English dictionaries which I thought you could be interested in sharing with your site’s visitors. The dictionaries provide clear and precise translations and are absolutely free … Continue reading →

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Vicipaedia

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

from the CHE: Latin Lovers Flock to Vicipaedia It’s taken only a few years for Wikipedia to become one of the world’s most translated documents: Sections of the site now appear in about 250 languages, including regional dialects like Quechua, … Continue reading →

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… and Why We Should Worry

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

Siva Vaidhyanathan has posted on his blog, the Googlization of Everything, an interview he did with a Charlottesville newspaper. The interview reveals some of his concerns about Google. An example: More than 20 big university libraries have signed contracts with … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia’s Awkward Adolescence

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

Thoughtful new critique by Karen G. Schneider (of Free Range Librarian) in CIO: Like a startup maturing into a real business, Wikipedia’s corporate culture seems conflicted between its role as a harmless nouveau-digital experiment and its broader ambitions. Worth a … Continue reading →

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Open Access publication, anyone?

Posted on 2007-09-29 by scaife

The second footnote to a review of Wolfgang Bernard and Christiane Reitz (edd.), Werner Krenkel: Naturalia non turpia. Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome / Schriften zur antiken Kultur- und Sexualwissenschaft. Spudasmata 113. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms, … Continue reading →

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Version control, visualized

Posted on 2007-09-28 by scaife

A nice visual overview of the purposes and mechanisms for version control, from Better Explained.

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and Digital Library Program of UCLA

Posted on 2007-09-26 by chuckjones

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and the Digital Library Program of the University of California, Los Angeles, are pleased to announce their successful proposal to the Institute for Museum and Library Services program “National Leadership Grants: Building Digital Resources” for … Continue reading →

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Exclusivity

Posted on 2007-09-20 by scaife

Hearing Mojo is not happy: I can’t believe Apple failed to make its iPhone compatible with either hearing aids or cochlear implants. I’m in the market for a mobile phone again and just discovered the lack of compatibility. Given all … Continue reading →

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outsourcing, again

Posted on 2007-09-17 by scaife

Cory Doctorow, “Scroogled: Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches… What if it controlled your life?” Excerpt: “Evening,” Greg said, handing the man his sweaty passport. The officer grunted and swiped it, then stared at his screen, … Continue reading →

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Diamond Synchrotron used to read ancient texts

Posted on 2007-09-16 by Gabriel Bodard

(Spotted by Gregg Schwender and seen in a Diamond Lab press release.) The ultra-powerful I22 Non-crystalline Diffraction beamline (as best as I understand it an application of the laser particle accellerator that produces highly concentrated pure light for scanning at … Continue reading →

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Stanford Humanities Center – Digital Humanities Fellowship

Posted on 2007-09-11 by chuckjones

The Stanford Humanities Center seeks to award one Digital Humanities Fellowship for the academic year 2008-2009 to a junior or senior scholar. The Digital Humanities Fellowship reflects the Stanford Humanities Center’s commitment to supporting new directions in humanities research. The … Continue reading →

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E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-09-01 by smahony

Updated version of the Oxford e-science posts with the corrected deadline forwarded to me by Marilyn Deegan: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for … Continue reading →

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