Category Archives: Open Source

Colloquia archive now available on an Open Access basis

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

An archive of over 650 TEI-conformant neo-Latin colloquia is now available via the instance of the new Perseus hopper that’s now implemented on this server, which provides lemmatized searching, morphological parsing and dictionary lookups, and automatic concordances for each text. … Continue reading →

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i2010 Digital Library questions

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) On December 5 – 6, 2005, the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries held a brainstorming meeting in Nice, France, to formulate responses to the i2010 Digital Library questions from the European Commission and to … Continue reading →

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Abzu expanding

Posted on 2006-01-03 by chuckjones

I have begun to expand the scope of Abzu to include Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology in addition to the ancient Near East. Abzu is an index to open access material served from stable platforms. It covers material realting to the … Continue reading →

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BMCR calls for reviewers of electronic publication projects

Posted on 2005-12-22 by scaife

BMCR editors Richard Hamilton and James J. O’Donnell reflect on the paucity of reviews of electronic publications, in BMCR and elsewhere: … we have not sustained a community of practice around serious reviews of web-based publications. This is a concern … Continue reading →

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Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment. Core recommendations: We need to nurture and validate digital scholarship and digitally literate scholars. We need … Continue reading →

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Preprint repository for two university classics departments

Posted on 2005-12-19 by scaife

from Peter Suber: Princeton and Stanford have launched Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an OA preprint repository. However, deposits are limited to faculty from the two universities and there’s no sign that it’s OAI-compliant. (Thanks to Josiah Ober via LibLicense.) … Continue reading →

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Academic Commons Second Edition

Posted on 2005-12-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Academic Commons have launched their December 2005 edition (see table of contents at http://www.academiccommons.org/december2005) In addition to new articles and topics, this edition includes showcases of both Digital Classicist and ALA 2004. This seems a useful site: I’d encourage others … Continue reading →

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OCA vs. Google Library

Posted on 2005-11-02 by scaife

Peter Suber compares the Open Content Alliance with Google Library in the most recent SPARC Open Access Newsletter (#91 November 2, 2005).

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archaeocommons?

Posted on 2005-10-31 by chuckjones

Appearing to be mostly a set of screen shots, Archaeocommons seems nevertheless to be an interesting emerging entity. This organization is one of the ventúres of Eric Kansa, who has written an interesting paper on“Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Expanding Access … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on New Standards

Posted on 2005-10-19 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen in Slashdot) A discussion over on IBM Developer Works on the adoption of new standards before they are established standards. Some useful discussion of the pitfalls as well as the advantages of such practices, that we might take into … Continue reading →

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Subversion client

Posted on 2005-10-18 by scaife

Just found a quick way to get a Subversion client going on a Mac that hasn’t got Fink on it, here at Metissian.com. (Also here.) Click to install the package, check /etc/profile to be sure /usr/local/bin is in the path, … Continue reading →

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D-Lib

Posted on 2005-10-17 by scaife

Juicy stuff in D-Lib this month: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora … Continue reading →

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BB devours WebCT

Posted on 2005-10-13 by scaife

Bryan Alexander observes that “BB is the new Microsoft” for the CMS field. Moodle, anyone?

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Another institution goes open access

Posted on 2005-10-13 by chuckjones

The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago announced a new publication policy yesterday: “Starting in 2005, the Oriental Institute is committed to digitizing all of its publications and making them available online, without charge. The minimum for each volume, … Continue reading →

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Rollyo

Posted on 2005-10-11 by scaife

Folks who recall the now-defunct Argos LASE (limited area search engine) may be interested in Klaus Graf‘s experiments with Rollyo, a site that lets you limit search results to certain sources. Klaus has now created a neo-Latin Rollyo, and an … Continue reading →

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