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Digital Tools for the Humanities: final report

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

The final report of a summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities is available now.

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A new Blog: Digging Digitally

Posted on 2006-05-31 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa of The Alexandria Archive Initiative, has initiated a new blog Digging Digitally: Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education on behelf of the Digital Data Interest Group of the SAA. “DDIG members can use this blog to … Continue reading →

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Homeric Catalogue of Ships in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Bret Mulligan sends word that he has begun a set of placemarks for the major contingents named in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Iliad, II.494-760).

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Update: Aegean Bronze Age in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-27 by scaife

I’ve added many more placemarks and grouped them by category (e.g. palaces, peak sanctuaries, Cycladic sites) in subfolders which may be turned on or off (depending on what you want to see) in the left panel of the Google Earth … Continue reading →

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Minoan Crete in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-22 by scaife

Today I spent some time associating placemarks for Minoan sites with scholarly resources. The file could obviously be developed much further but even now it may have some utility. I posted it to the Google Earth Community forum, whence it … Continue reading →

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Historical placemarks in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-21 by scaife

Browsing through the message board for the Google Earth Community shows that various enthusiasts have been busily creating themed sets of placemarks. Ancient Rome in 51 annotated placemarks Hadrian’s Villa, details of roman imperial palace 40 roman amphitheatres in high … Continue reading →

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Jane Austen’s Life and Works

Posted on 2006-05-20 by scaife

An interesting example of Google Earth put to use for literary history.

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Pisidian Antioch in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-17 by scaife

From The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology comes Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch, including lots of photographs and models, as well as an overhead view of the 3D restoration of Antioch mapped over the location of … Continue reading →

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TEI by Example

Posted on 2006-05-08 by scaife

From the TEI list, announcement by Edward Vanhoutte of a new project to teach TEI markup: At the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Belgium) we’re currently working on a … Continue reading →

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More SketchUp: Pharos lighthouse and Roman Curia

Posted on 2006-05-07 by scaife

Here and here, respectively (neither model is geo-located in Google Earth yet).

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Luminous Lint

Posted on 2006-05-05 by chuckjones

Luminous Lint hopes “to create the world‘s leading collaborative knowledge-base for the history of photography showing significant vintage and contemporary photography.”  They already have a developing theme on Early landscape photography of the Classical World, and on photographers such as … Continue reading →

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SketchUp’ed Acropolis in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-01 by scaife

A couple of days ago I blogged that it would be useful to recreate ancient sites with SketchUp and make the results available within Google Earth. Actually it turns out that the Athenian Acropolis (sans Erechtheion) is already available among … Continue reading →

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SketchUp plus GoogleEarth for modeling of buildings from Olynthus, Pompeii, the Acropolis…

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

Idea for a new collaborative project: we need to be able to zoom in with GoogleEarth to various archaeological sites and see a collection of 3D study models sitting in place there. SketchUp Google Earth 3D Warehouse Here’s a short … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

There’s a new home on SourceForge for Epidoc, and the Epidoc guidelines themselves are available here on the Stoa server. Principles: Five important principles have governed the elaboration of EpiDoc techniques and tools from the beginning: EpiDoc and its tools … Continue reading →

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AHRC ICT Methods Network Call for proposals

Posted on 2006-04-13 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for Proposals The Methods Network invites member of the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the U.K. to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, postgraduate training events, publications, and other activities. Workshops Workshops … Continue reading →

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