Category Archives: Projects

Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus!

Posted on 2008-08-28 by dporter

Posted on behalf of Greg Crane. Link to the Treebank, which provides more information, at the very end of the post. We are currently looking for advanced students of Greek and Latin to contribute syntactic analyses (via a web-based system) … Continue reading →

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Office of Digital Humanities: Search for funded projects

Posted on 2008-08-20 by dporter

Playing around on the website of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities this afternoon I came across the Library of Funded Projects, a database of projects funded through the ODH. Visitors can search by Categories (technical … Continue reading →

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Problems and outcomes in digital philology (session 3: methodologies)

Posted on 2008-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and outcomes in digital philology e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, March 25-27 2008. (Event website; programme wiki; original call) I was asked to summarize the third session of papers in the round table discussion this … Continue reading →

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Services and Infrastructure for a Million Books (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. The second of two round tables in the afternoon of the Million Books Workshop, chaired by Brian Fuchs (Imperial College London), asked a panel of experts what services and infrastructure … Continue reading →

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What would you do with a million books? (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-16 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. In the afternoon, the first of two round table discussions concerned the uses to which massive text digitisation could be put by the curators of various collections. The panellists were: … Continue reading →

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Million Books Workshop (brief report)

Posted on 2008-03-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Imperial College London. Friday, March 14, 2008. David Smith gave the first paper of the morning on “From Text to Information: Machine Translation”. The discussion included a survey of machine translation techniques (including the automatic discovery of existing translations by … Continue reading →

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Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (report)

Posted on 2008-01-20 by Gabriel Bodard

The British Library and JISC commissioned the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at UCL to produce a report on Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. It’s well worth reading the full reportin PDF … Continue reading →

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Web-based Research Tools for Mediterranean Archaeology

Posted on 2008-01-04 by Tom Elliott

Workshop at the 2008 annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Chicago Sunday, 6 January 2008, 9:00 a.m. – noon, Water Tower, Bronze Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Hotel Moderators: Rebecca K. Schindler and Pedar Foss, DePauw University … Continue reading →

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Technology Collaboration Awards

Posted on 2007-12-15 by scaife

An announcement from Mellow (via the CHE): Five universities were among the 10 winners of the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, announced this week. They will share $650,000 in prize money for “leadership in the collaborative development of open-source software … 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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English-Latin-English dictionaries

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

from the mailbag: My name is Silvio and I’ve recently concluded a set of English-Latin-English dictionaries which I thought you could be interested in sharing with your site’s visitors. The dictionaries provide clear and precise translations and are absolutely free … Continue reading →

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Two new blogs

Posted on 2007-09-27 by scaife

Tom Elliott, Horothesia: thoughts and comments across the boundaries of computing, ancient history, epigraphy and geography. Shawn Graham, Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research.  Agent based modeling, games, virtual worlds, and online education for archaeology and history.

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and Digital Library Program of UCLA

Posted on 2007-09-26 by chuckjones

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and the Digital Library Program of the University of California, Los Angeles, are pleased to announce their successful proposal to the Institute for Museum and Library Services program “National Leadership Grants: Building Digital Resources” for … Continue reading →

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Virtual London shelved as OS refuse to license data to Google

Posted on 2007-08-29 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in last week’s New Scientist: A 3D software model of London containing over 3 million buildings in photorealistic detail is now unlikely to reach the public because of a dispute between a UK government agency and Google. The full … Continue reading →

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