Category Archives: Projects

E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-08-22 by smahony

See and forwarded from Classicists mailing list ————————————————– UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts … Continue reading →

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The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons

Posted on 2007-08-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen on the Creative Commons blog: A study titled “The Common Information Environment and Creative Commons” was funded by Becta, the British Library, DfES, JISC and the MLA on behalf of the Common Information Environment. The work was carried out … Continue reading →

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UK JISC Digitisation Conference 2007

Posted on 2007-08-01 by smahony

Joint Information Systems Committee Copied from JISC Digitisation Blog “In July 2007 JISC held a two-day digitisation conference in Cardiff and the event was live blogged and podcasted. Here you can find links to all the resources from the conference, … Continue reading →

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Electronic corpora of ancient languages

Posted on 2007-07-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted to the Digital Classicist list (from ancientpglinguistics) by Kalle Korhonen: Electronic corpora of ancient languages International Conference Prague (Czech Republic), November 16-17th, 2007 http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/ecal/ Call for papers Aims of conference Electronic corpora of ancient languages offer important information about … Continue reading →

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Chiron pool at Flickr

Posted on 2007-06-27 by scaife

Alun Salt notes Recently the 5000th photo was uploaded to the Chiron pool at Flickr. That’s over 5000 photos connected to antiquity which you can pick up and use in presentations or blogs for free. It’s due in no small … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming lectures on arts and humanities e-science

Posted on 2007-06-27 by smahony

Forwarded from AHESC Arts and Humanites e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/) The next lectures in the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Theme (see http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme) begin next week. The Theme, organized by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) and … Continue reading →

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100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s)

Posted on 2007-06-25 by smahony

Saw this on Humanist. Anything out there and also freely available for UK English? A new 100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s) is now freely available at: http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ The corpus is based on more than 275,000 articles in … Continue reading →

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Promise and challenge: augmenting places with sources

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has some very interesting things to say about “the widespread digitization of historical sources” and — near and dear to my heart — “augmenting places with sources”: William J. Turkel, “Seeing There,” Digital History Hacks, 18 June 2007 … Continue reading →

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Rome Reborn 1.0

Posted on 2007-06-11 by scaife

from the Chronicle for Higher Education: Ancient Rome Restored — Virtually A group of Virginians and Californians has rebuilt ancient Rome. And today they received the grateful thanks of the modern city’s mayor. The rebuilding marked by this ceremony has … Continue reading →

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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D

Posted on 2007-06-05 by scaife

Amy Hackney Blackwell has a new piece in Wired on the just-concluded month-long effort to digitize Venetus A at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.  (There’s a nice gallery of images too.) I was fortunate to be part of this CHS-sponsored … Continue reading →

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OA in Classics…

Posted on 2007-06-04 by scaife

Josiah Ober, Walter Scheidel, Brent D. Shaw and Donna Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics” in Hesperia, Volume: 76, Issue: 1. Cover date: Jan-Mar 2007

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Withdrawal of AHDS Funding

Posted on 2007-06-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Following the recent public announcement that the UK’s AHRC intends to withdraw funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the following petition has been set up at the British Government’s website. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AHDSfunding/ On 11 May 2007, Professor Phillip Esler, … Continue reading →

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New Project – Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents

Posted on 2007-05-15 by melissa

Oxford University and UCL are pleased to announce the recent funding of a new project to work on aiding scholars in reading and interpreting Ancient Texts. Three year funding, including one additional phd studentship, has been secured from the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC … Continue reading →

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Encyclopedia of Life

Posted on 2007-05-15 by Gabriel Bodard

The New Scientist this week reports on the Encyclopedia of Life, a new, massive, collaborative, evolving resource to catalogue the 1.8 million known species of life on the planet. Although this is a biology resource and so, for example, has … Continue reading →

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International Network of Digital Humanities Centers

Posted on 2007-04-24 by Tom Elliott

Making the rounds on various lists this morning is a call for participation in “an international network of digital humanities centers.” Julia Flanders et al. write: If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities center, anywhere in … Continue reading →

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