Category Archives: Projects

New blog for Papyrology news

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

A message from G. Schwendner (Wichita State University): I am putting up a weblog to keep track of new publications, announcements etc. in papyrology (my field). We see these, for the most part, on the Papy-list, but the archives are … Continue reading →

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On-line Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

A message from Judith Lynn Sebesta (University of South Dakota): Call for Collaborators to The On-line Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women The On-Line Companion to the Focus Reader, The Worlds of Roman Women,1 expands the book’s wide representation … Continue reading →

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Zotero – the next generation research tool

Posted on 2006-09-19 by scaife

Dan Cohen has new blog posts about the Zotero project, which among other things has just landed substantial new support from Mellon.  For interesting details of where things stand, read Dan’s blog; meanwhile here’s a summary of what Zotero can … Continue reading →

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Call for Collaboration/Latin Treebank

Posted on 2006-09-19 by scaife

A message received yesterday from David Bamman at Perseus: The Perseus Project has recently received a planning grant from the NSF to investigate the costs and labor involved in constructing a multimillion-word Latin treebank, along with its potential value for … Continue reading →

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Will a patent on sliced bread be next?

Posted on 2006-09-05 by scaife

I had to laugh (along with some others, I see) at Microsoft patent application # 20060195313, filed 31 August 2006: Method and system for selecting and conjugating a verb Abstract: A verb conjugating system allows a user to input a … Continue reading →

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Google Book Search grants some PDF downloads

Posted on 2006-08-30 by scaife

from ars technica: Google went ahead and did it. Books no longer in copyright are now available for download from the Google Book Search site. If you’re looking for something tasty, might we recommend an early English translation of Montaigne’s … Continue reading →

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MuGeum: Roman Forum and Vicinity

Posted on 2006-08-16 by scaife

A MuGeum is a museum of places that are described by their geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude and altitude). A MuGeum can span any distance. A MuGeum may deal with one specific historic event (such as a discovery or a battle), … Continue reading →

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if:book

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

Via Scribblings and Musings, word of an interesting new blog, if:book, sponsored by the Inbstitute for the Future of the Book.  One of the entries in the if:book blog references a chapter Clifford Lynch has written entitled, “Open Computation: Beyond … Continue reading →

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xcavator — image search and sort

Posted on 2006-08-09 by scaife

from John Battelle’s SearchBlog: xcavator is a new and exciting technology for searching and sorting images. With all the control granted to you, it makes image searching easy and specific. It’s very much like text-based searching in Google or Yahoo! … Continue reading →

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Network links for showing geotagged photos in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

I think it would be interesting for an ASCSA regular member to use this techique with photographs taken during the fall and winter trips.

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Creating ebooks with open source tools

Posted on 2006-08-02 by scaife

The TeleRead blog points to what looks like a useful Newsforge article about the the Sunrise desktop conversion tool and the Plucker reader.

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Preservation Watch Report

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

Via the JISC-Repositories list comes notice of a report summarizing some current initiatives in digital preservation. This is one of a growing list of reports produced by the Jorum Repository Service.

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Four kinds of search for Google Books

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

Yesterday the Inside Google Book Search blog offered details concerning The four ways you’ll see books in Google Book Search.

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Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML … Continue reading →

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Google Shakespeare, Google Book Search, Google Sketchup model

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Google’s Book Blog (devoted to the Google Book Search project) has an entry on the Google Shakespeare project. This latter site seems to give a good feel for some of the things Google wants to do with its digitized books. … Continue reading →

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