Category Archives: Projects

Getting Data into Google Earth using Arc2Earth

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Brian Flood has a post on the apparently straightforward task of presenting GIS data through Google Earth.

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“the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform”

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

Michael Robertson intends to offer six new Ajax applications, one each week, via his  ajaxLaunch.com site.  He’s begun with a new word processor, ajaxWrite.

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Virtual Humanities Lab

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Geoff Rockwell notes the arrival of Vika Zafrin’s NEH-funded Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown, an interface for the display, annotation, and discussion of semantically encoded texts.

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“What do you do with a million books?”

Posted on 2006-03-16 by scaife

The March 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (https://www.dlib.org/) is now available.  This is a special issue on the theme of “Digital Library Evolution” with guest editor, Gregory Crane, Tufts University. The articles include: What Do You Do with a Million … Continue reading →

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Getting going with Fedora

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Writing to the JISC-Repositories list, Richard Green (manager of the RepoMMan Project at the University of Hull) announces “an early draft of a project deliverable that describes [their] work getting going with Fedora”: D-D4 Iterative Development of Fedora materials. Sorry, … Continue reading →

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Pleiades project seeks software applications analyst

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

I am happy to announce that a 2-year Software Application Analyst position for the Pleiades project is now open for application. We will carefully evaluate all applications received (online, see below) by the deadline of 13 February 2006 with a … Continue reading →

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Gentium Unicode font featured on newsforge

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

My post this morning to classics-l about Bruce Byfield’s newsforge article (Gentium: An award-winning font joins the free software world ) has sparked an interesting and informative discussion. Gist@newsforge: Gentium’s creator, Victor Gaultney, has re-released the useful and attractive font … Continue reading →

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1-2 Posts in 3D Visualisation (London)

Posted on 2006-01-25 by Gabriel Bodard

(From https://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/about/vacancies.html) (1) Network Development Officer JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network Part-time, 0.5FTE, 36 months The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London wishes to employ, an outgoing, dynamic and organised person to initiate a … Continue reading →

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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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reappearing as if by magic…

Posted on 2006-01-18 by scaife

Thanks to Adrian Packel of the Perseus Digital Library, who has installed the new Perseus hopper on the Stoa production server, the Lane Festschrift as well as materials related to Homer and to Olynthus that have been missing from this … Continue reading →

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Teuchos conference

Posted on 2006-01-15 by Gabriel Bodard

The preliminary programme for the conference “Digital philology — problems and perspectives” (Hamburg, 20-22 January 2006) is now available at https://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/RV/other/projects/conference.html. The organisers of the Teuchos Centre have also created an automated mailing list to distribute future information regarding the … Continue reading →

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CEDOPAL catalogue of literary papyri online

Posted on 2006-01-04 by Gabriel Bodard

Announced today via the PAPY list (and elsewhere): Le CEDOPAL a le plaisir d’annoncer la mise en ligne de l’intégralité du “Catalogue des papyrus littéraires grecs et latins” (6.855 notices au 29.12.2005) et sa consultation au moyen d’un module de … Continue reading →

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e-Science Demonstrator Projects

Posted on 2005-12-21 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen on the Methods Network RSS) The E-Science Core Programme, in association with the AHRC, wishes to announce a Call for Proposals for E-Science Demonstrator Projects in the Arts and Humanities. Proposals must be received by EPSRC by midday on … 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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