Category Archives: Projects

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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Text movies for two neo-Latin colloquia

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Dot Porter, Program Coordinator for RCH at UK, has assembled QuickTime movies for certain colloquia (text and audio combined via SMIL files): Erasmus: Abbatis et Eruditae Erasmus: Echo Technically I suppose these aren’t really text movies as Apple defines them, … Continue reading →

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Pim Allison: Roman forts not male-only

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Pim Allison, whose Open Access site on Pompeian Households is hosted here at the Stoa, is in the news: In a unique study, Allison has been analysing patterns of objects found throughout the [Roman] forts that support the presence of … Continue reading →

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Latin podcasting update

Posted on 2005-12-03 by scaife

OK, so after getting some advice from people at UK more experienced with audio recording, we’ve upgraded the equipment we use for our Latin podcasting to Behringer Eurorack UB 1202 shielded cable for mixer to audio-in on the computer 2 … Continue reading →

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Mysteries at Eleusis visual image collection

Posted on 2005-12-02 by scaife

Fiona C. Patrick (Project Coordinator, Digital Consulting & Production Services) sends word of the following: Cornell University Library is pleased to announce the availability of “Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions,” a digital collection of approximately 800 images from the … Continue reading →

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New and better neo-Latin podcasts

Posted on 2005-11-23 by scaife

The podcasting project mentioned here a few days ago continues, with some much improved techniques and voices (notice I’m not one of them this time!): Erasmus, Echo. Readers: William du Cassé and Milena Minkova Erasmus, Abbatis et Eruditae. Readers: William … Continue reading →

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Latin podcasting experiment

Posted on 2005-11-13 by scaife

William du Cassé (who’s enrolled in the flourishing UK Institute for Latin Studies) and I began a site this week for publication of recordings of neo-Latin colloquia saved as mp3 files. Should you want to keep track of new additions … Continue reading →

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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Posted on 2005-10-31 by chuckjones

Perhaps it just snuck by me, but I have no recollection of an announcement of the availability online of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. It seems that all of the out-of -print volumes of the CVA (a couple of hundred volumes?!?) … Continue reading →

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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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PHI Online

Posted on 2005-10-20 by Gabriel Bodard

We have just spotted the Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions database online version. http://erga.packhum.org/inscriptions/ I have been unable to learn if this is (a) a permanent fixture, or in particular (b) a permanent URL. The site has a good index … Continue reading →

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VR Athens Agora

Posted on 2005-10-19 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen on Rogueclassicism; from AME) The Foundation for the Hellenic World will be launching a large immersive VR of the ancient Athenian Agora as part of the Hellenic Cosmos site, using the Silicon Graphics Prism tool from SGI. This is … Continue reading →

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The Open Content Alliance

Posted on 2005-10-03 by chuckjones

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the … Continue reading →

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Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean

Posted on 2005-09-29 by ioannisg

The Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean is an online atlas of the Aegean, created by the Ministry of the Aegean and the University of Athens, Greece. The Atlas is fully searchable and enables users to locate archaeological sites in mainland … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist: Announcement and Call for Participation

Posted on 2005-09-26 by scaife

Dieser Aufruf zur Beteiligung kann man auch auf deutsch lesen Cet appel à participation se trouve aussi en français Questa richiesta di partecipazione e’ disponibile anche in Italiano We should like to announce the creation of a new project and … Continue reading →

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Three Projects Worthy of Careful Review

Posted on 2005-09-23 by chuckjones

The Alexandria Archive Institute works to build an open, Internet-based, knowledge commons of world cultural heritage. “Dedicated organizations, such as the AAI, are needed to continuously keep pace with developments in scholarship, build and maintain collaborations, and provide needed guidance … Continue reading →

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