Category Archives: Open Source

Call for examples from “TEI by Example”

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ of King’s College London, and the School for Library, Archive, and Information … Continue reading →

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Grumentum: latest from Troels Myrup

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

Troels Myrup has added new images to the Stoa Image Gallery: I’ve added photos from Grumentum in Lucania (Southern Italy) to the Stoa Gallery. Charming place but fairly remote. It’s kind of hard to think that tourists will ever come … Continue reading →

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Open Access Pantheon

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

From Neel Smith comes word of The Pantheon Project – The Pilot Project of the Karman Center. Definitely worth a look, with very nice OA policies covering the core project data: … many questions remain concerning the design, construction, statics, … Continue reading →

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UK is on board — how about your institution?

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from Open Access News: Another provost for FRPAA Kumble Subbaswamy, Provost of the University of Kentucky, has added his signature to the SPARC list of U.S. university presidents and provosts endorsing open access to publicly-funded research and the Federal Research … Continue reading →

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Pot, meet kettle

Posted on 2006-11-20 by scaife

This one is pretty rich fare! How many times have we all read ludicrously over-reaching claims of copyright protection for books and electronic resources? And these people want to point fingers at the faculty for not understanding the law? For … Continue reading →

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Firefox extension for humanities scholars

Posted on 2006-11-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Has anyone tried using this? Is it actually useful?

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Alouette

Posted on 2006-10-23 by scaife

hangingtogether.org comments on the newly announced Canadian digitization effort called AlouetteCanada. Some of the juicy bits: Billed as an “open digitization initiative,” Alouette shares some common features with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) — not altogether surprising, since founding members … Continue reading →

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On the power of CC licensing @ Flickr

Posted on 2006-10-19 by scaife

Mark Glaser of MediaShift: Creative Commons + Flickr = 22 Million Sharable Photos

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Excellent suggestion: self-help

Posted on 2006-10-17 by scaife

if:book discusses the progress Microsoft is making towards its book search portal, and sees a big risk: But more important, we should get to work with OCR scanners and start extracting the texts to build our own databases. Even when … Continue reading →

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Zotero goes live

Posted on 2006-10-06 by scaife

Release notes.

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Pleiades Achieves First Major Development Milestone

Posted on 2006-10-04 by Tom Elliott

The staff of the Ancient World Mapping Center’s Pleiades Project is pleased to report that it has met its “Geo Prime” milestone, effective 2 October 2006. The “Geo Prime” milestone was structured to demonstrate, in a modified version of the … Continue reading →

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First Swedish CC-licensed PhD

Posted on 2006-09-28 by Gabriel Bodard

From the Creative Commons blog: The first Creative Commons licensed PhD to be defended on 2nd October in Göteborg, Sweden. The PhD thesis entitled Disruptive Technology: Effects of Technology Regulation on Democracy deals with the negative democratic effects which often … Continue reading →

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British Academy: “copyright is hindering scholarship”

Posted on 2006-09-23 by Gabriel Bodard

British Academy says that copyright is hindering scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Baroness Onora O’Neill, the President of the British Academy, chaired the launch event and welcomed the report. “From the national point of view,” she said, “it … Continue reading →

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Open Source Critical Editions workshop

Posted on 2006-09-21 by Gabriel Bodard

A workshop on Open Source Critical Editions will be held on Friday 22nd September in King’s College London. The workshop is co-organised by the AHRC ICT Methods Network, the Perseus Project, and the Digital Classicist. The workshop programme is available … Continue reading →

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Oral Tradition

Posted on 2006-09-21 by scaife

Via rogueclassicism comes the news that The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition now offers universal, free access to its academic journal.

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