Category Archives: Publications

A Don’s Life

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Alun Salt at Blogographos alerts to a new blog by Mary Beard: A Don’s Life — Mary Beard on Culture Ancient and Modern

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Baidu Baike

Posted on 2006-05-19 by scaife

from a CHE piece on a rip-off of Wikipedia in China: It’s worth noting that China’s censorship policies make it virtually impossible for a true open-source encyclopedia to exist.

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Open Access & Anti-élitism

Posted on 2006-05-19 by Gabriel Bodard

From Academic Commons: Michael Carroll, Law Professor at Villanova University School of Law , Creative Commons Board Member, and Blogger, turns up the heat in the on-going debate over pending federal legislation that would force open access to research supported … Continue reading →

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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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A new translation of Euripides’ Medea, bearing a CC license

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

Celia Luschnig has produced a new translation of the Medea as part of the Diotima anthology. Special thanks to John T Quinn, Translation Editor for Diotima, for his help. (There’s also a pretty-print PDF version.) This work bears a Creative … Continue reading →

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Copyright term and the public domain

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

A handy chart I had not yet seen, from the Cornell Copyright Information Center. Footnote 7 is useful: A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For books, the figure was even … Continue reading →

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Scan this Book!

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

Kevin Kelly, Scan This Book! New York Times, May 14, 2006: For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into … Continue reading →

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Scholarly Research Trends in the Humanities

Posted on 2006-05-12 by scaife

Jordan Ballor has posted part of his talk on “various views of what scholarly publishing in the digital age looks like,” including these bits Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig complain of “the balkanization of the web into privately owned … 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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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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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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Gospel of Judas Megapost

Posted on 2006-04-20 by scaife

Mark Goodacre has a Gospel of Judas megapost that ought to offer enough for even the most avid followers of this topic.

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Pre-1975 European scholarship = fair game?

Posted on 2006-04-17 by scaife

The 1993 EU Copyright law is here. Article 5 appears to be crucial: Critical and scientific publications Member States may protect critical and scientific publications of works which have come into the public domain. The maximum term of protection of … Continue reading →

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The Wealth of Networks

Posted on 2006-04-15 by scaife

Lawrence Lessig: You are not serious about these issues — on either side of these debates — unless you have read this book.

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