Category Archives: Projects

Announcing TAPoR version 1.0

Posted on 2007-04-24 by smahony

Seen on Humanist: Announcing TAPoR version 1.0 http://portal.tapor.ca We have just updated the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) to version 1.0 and invite you to try it out. The new version will not appear that different from previous versions. … Continue reading →

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Digital preservation of Pompeii

Posted on 2007-04-23 by juangarces

From the ANCIEN-L list (via Thoughts on Antiquity): Friends and colleagues: The ruins of Pompeii are crumbling, but the digital imaging project known as CyArk is generating a three-dimensional record of the site that will be available for future generations. … Continue reading →

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Pulitzer Prizes need updated categories

Posted on 2007-04-17 by scaife

Winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prizes in various categories were announced yesterday.  Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a prize for a blogger.  If there had been, I can’t imagine a more deserving recipient than K.C. Johnson, for bravely staring down the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Posted on 2007-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen at Academic Commons: The folks at the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory aka HASTAC (http://hastac.org) have posted a draft of a paper entitled “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.”  The paper will evolve through … Continue reading →

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Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted by the Methods Network: The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research, has just launched an online community forum on ‘digital’ history: … Continue reading →

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Classicists and Text-criticism Technology?

Posted on 2007-02-24 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve just spotted this blog entry from back in October, but it raises questions worth addressing (questions of perception as well as practice…): Last week, at the ITSEE launch, I –and several other people– had the opportunity to hear Michael … Continue reading →

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Googlian hegemony?

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

Stuart Weibel blogged Mike Keller’s OCLC presentation entitled “Mass Digitization in Google Book Search: Effects on Scholarship.” Weibel says: For those unsettled by the rapidity of Googlian hegemony in library spaces, Mike constructs a vivid and compelling argument for embracing … Continue reading →

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Pleiades: Beyond the Barrington Atlas

Posted on 2007-01-09 by Tom Elliott

I’ve just posted to the Pleiades wiki the prepared text portion of the presentation I gave last Saturday during a session of the annual meeting of the American Philological Association. http://icon.stoa.org/trac/pleiades/wiki/ElliottAPAPaper It introduces the project with a Google Earth use … Continue reading →

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Archimedes, again

Posted on 2006-12-26 by scaife

Yet another piece on the the Archimedes palimpsest, this one in the L. A. Times. “The team made progress on a few pages, but it may take decades — or longer — before technologies are developed that can unveil all … Continue reading →

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Grassroots book-scanning for uncompromising OA

Posted on 2006-12-23 by scaife

As complaints multiply about quality control in the Google book scanning initiative, this sort of approach begun by Nicholas Hodson looks increasingly promising to me.  (Had to laugh about the blue and the pink coding, though!)

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Mass digitization of books

Posted on 2006-12-20 by scaife

From Current Cites: Coyle, Karen. “Mass Digitization of Books” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32(6)(November 2006): 641-645. – A very well done overview of mass and near-mass digitization of books by Google, the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft, Project Gutenberg, and … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web podcasts

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Keith Alexander at Semantic Humanities is compiling a list of podcasts on the theme of the Semantic Web.

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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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Chiron web: collaborative Classics

Posted on 2006-12-03 by scaife

A very welcome announcement in the mail today: I would like to communicate with you the birth of a new collaborative site, so that you can announce it at www.stoa.org: Name: Chiron URL: http://www.chironweb.org/ The site is made by (and … Continue reading →

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