Category Archives: Projects

Open Access Pantheon

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

From Neel Smith comes word of The Pantheon Project – The Pilot Project of the Karman Center. Definitely worth a look, with very nice OA policies covering the core project data: … many questions remain concerning the design, construction, statics, … Continue reading →

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A Directory of Academic Blogs, Wiki Style

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from the CHE: How many academic blogs are there? Too many for any one person to keep track of. The popular academic blog Crooked Timber has long maintained a lengthy list of academic blogs. The list had been maintained in … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by Gabriel Bodard

After the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, a group met at the University of Chicago as a part of a Mellon-funded project, centered at Tufts University, to explore the question, “What do you do with a million … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

A Mellon-funded working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (dhcs.uchicago.edu) has now issued a position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library. The goal is to consider how the future of … Continue reading →

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Teaching and learning scenarios for Google Earth

Posted on 2006-11-14 by scaife

EduCause has a two-pager, and Google has its own page for educators.

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Sanity

Posted on 2006-10-27 by scaife

Emphasis added: For better or for worse, Wikipedia has become the first destination for many a student researcher. Does the site’s ubiquity mean that professors have a responsibility to contribute? “I feel I have an obligation to do so, at … Continue reading →

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Alouette

Posted on 2006-10-23 by scaife

hangingtogether.org comments on the newly announced Canadian digitization effort called AlouetteCanada. Some of the juicy bits: Billed as an “open digitization initiative,” Alouette shares some common features with the Open Content Alliance (OCA) — not altogether surprising, since founding members … Continue reading →

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Excellent suggestion: self-help

Posted on 2006-10-17 by scaife

if:book discusses the progress Microsoft is making towards its book search portal, and sees a big risk: But more important, we should get to work with OCR scanners and start extracting the texts to build our own databases. Even when … Continue reading →

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“naturally more expressive digital object focus”

Posted on 2006-10-13 by scaife

This Object Reuse and Exchange initiative looks like a project to keep an eye on: The Open Archives Initiative (OAI), with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announces a new effort as part of its mission to … Continue reading →

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British Museum site on Ancient Greece

Posted on 2006-10-13 by scaife

from The Scout Report: 5. Ancient Greece [Macromedia Flash Player] https://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/ Presented with a physical relief map of Greece and its many islands, visitors to the homepage of this site will then be treated to a range of material objects, … Continue reading →

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Alun Salt’s MuGeum Gateway to Ancient Greece

Posted on 2006-10-07 by scaife

What I’m working on is a list of various Greek cities as a reference for the new first years who start lectures in Ancient Greek history this coming week. Hopefully they’ll know where Athens is, but working out which island … Continue reading →

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The Parthenon Frieze

Posted on 2006-10-07 by scaife

from Dorothy King: Columbia has a great new site about the Parthenon Frieze, where you can click on the plan and see either old photos (pre recent 20th century damage) or drawings based on Carrey and other sources. The Parthenon … Continue reading →

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Zotero goes live

Posted on 2006-10-06 by scaife

Release notes.

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20,000 entries for Suda On Line

Posted on 2006-10-04 by scaife

Progress Report (as of October 2, 2006): Assigned: 20,385 Translated: 20,001 Vetted: 19,998 A message from Managing Editor Bill Hutton to contributors and potential contributors: Dear contributors to the Suda On-Line: Yesterday the 20,000th was submitted to the Suda On … Continue reading →

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Pleiades Achieves First Major Development Milestone

Posted on 2006-10-04 by Tom Elliott

The staff of the Ancient World Mapping Center’s Pleiades Project is pleased to report that it has met its “Geo Prime” milestone, effective 2 October 2006. The “Geo Prime” milestone was structured to demonstrate, in a modified version of the … Continue reading →

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