Category Archives: Open Source

Search Pigeon

Posted on 2008-02-18 by Tom Elliott

Spotted by way of Peter Suber’s Open Access News: Search Pigeon is a collection of Google Co-opTM Custom Search Engines (CSEs) designed to make researching on the web a richer, more rewarding, and more efficient process. Designed for researchers in … Continue reading →

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Cultural Heritage and Open Access Licenses

Posted on 2007-11-17 by Gabriel Bodard

The Eduserv Foundation has released a report on the use of Creative Commons, Creative Archive, and other open access licenses in the area of British heritage, ‘Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Open Library

Posted on 2007-10-27 by scaife

Adding this grandiose Open Library system to the Internet Archive strikes me as simply brilliant. In this case “fully open” is defined as “a product of the people: letting them create and curate its catalog, contribute to its content, participate … Continue reading →

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SSRN does Classics: old wine in new wineskins?

Posted on 2007-10-23 by scaife

I always find myself wanting humanists to think about using the net for more than “let’s just do what we’ve always done, only on line now” (the BMCR syndrome, if you will). But still this expansion of SSRN into Classics … Continue reading →

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New Plato translations, under CC license

Posted on 2007-10-15 by scaife

Cathal Woods, philosophy professor at Virginia Wesleyan University, writes: together with a student, i have prepared new translations of plato’s euthyphro, apology (which we’re calling “socrates’ defense”), crito, and the death scene from phaedo. they’re free to all under a … Continue reading →

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Fitzpatrick on CommentPress

Posted on 2007-10-15 by scaife

from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, Fall 2007: … CommentPress demonstrates the fruitfulness of reimagining the technologies of electronic publishing in service to the social interconnections of authors and readers. The … 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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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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Academic publishers prepare for dirty war against Open Access

Posted on 2007-09-22 by Gabriel Bodard

According to an article published in this week’s New Scientist (full article requires sub): An unexpected package arrived on my desk earlier this year. The sender did not give a name, and the return address was false. Inside were copies … Continue reading →

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Sounds familiar!

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Scott Jaschik, Publishing and Values, Inside Higher Ed, August 22, 2007: A number of outside observers believe that the tensions visible in anthropology this week are challenging other disciplines, too. “At the most fundamental level, we’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

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Who edits Wikipedia?

Posted on 2007-08-18 by Gabriel Bodard

A very interesting site has been doing the rounds of news and blogs lately, which allows users to trace anonymous edits of Wikipedia articles by comparing to the public record of registered IP addresses. The WikiScanner is itself neutral as … Continue reading →

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More on openness and Google Books

Posted on 2007-08-17 by scaife

As a follow-up to Dan Cohen/s post yesterday in which he lamented the lack of an API to Google’s book digitization efforts, there’s further discussion today, in the form of an interview of Brewster Kahle by Andrew Richard Albanese, Scan … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 2

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

In “Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes?,” Dan Cohen provides some of his usual thoughtful and well-stated correctives to the latest anti-Google jeremiad making the rounds, Paul Duguid’s “Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books.” Complaining about the … Continue reading →

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Open access and convenience

Posted on 2007-08-08 by scaife

This CHE piece caught my eye, esp. one of the suggestions made as to why people may not be using library-adminstered electronic resources so much: The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning — … Continue reading →

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