Category Archives: Publications

Getting going with Fedora

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Writing to the JISC-Repositories list, Richard Green (manager of the RepoMMan Project at the University of Hull) announces “an early draft of a project deliverable that describes [their] work getting going with Fedora”: D-D4 Iterative Development of Fedora materials. Sorry, … Continue reading →

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Authority vs. popularity

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Recent new features on technorati have provoked Steve Rubel to ask — in the context of link counting and blog rankings — “What is authority?” People are answering …

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Google Print Collaborators: ‘Defending the future of books’

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Tom Elliott

Google’s Library Partnerships Director, Laura DeBonis appears on the Official Google Blog to gloss a recent speech by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, defending book digitization as “protecting the written word for all time.” Google blog post: Defending … Continue reading →

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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae CD Rom reviewed

Posted on 2006-02-06 by Gabriel Bodard

A review at Bryn Mawr Classical Review of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition, published by K. G. Saur. Peter Heslin at Durham has some interesting things to say about the value of this work and of such Greek … Continue reading →

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Appropriate venues

Posted on 2006-02-02 by scaife

Peter Suber has done a useful service (again) in writing “Six things that researchers need to know about open access.” What?  Can’t find a journal that meets your needs?  Perhaps Scholarly Exchange can be brought into the picture.

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The Journal of Maps

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Tom Elliott

From the Journal of Maps website: The Journal of Maps [(ISSN 1744-5647)] is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method … Continue reading →

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Colloquia archive now available on an Open Access basis

Posted on 2006-01-20 by scaife

An archive of over 650 TEI-conformant neo-Latin colloquia is now available via the instance of the new Perseus hopper that’s now implemented on this server, which provides lemmatized searching, morphological parsing and dictionary lookups, and automatic concordances for each text. … Continue reading →

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reappearing as if by magic…

Posted on 2006-01-18 by scaife

Thanks to Adrian Packel of the Perseus Digital Library, who has installed the new Perseus hopper on the Stoa production server, the Lane Festschrift as well as materials related to Homer and to Olynthus that have been missing from this … Continue reading →

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yet another initiative for reform

Posted on 2006-01-05 by scaife

From Scott Jaschik, A Tenure Reform Plan With Legs, Inside Higher Ed, January 5, 2006: A special panel of the MLA is finishing a report that will call for numerous, far-reaching changes in the way assistant professors are reviewed for … Continue reading →

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English-Greek Dictionary online at Chicago

Posted on 2006-01-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Rogueclassicism notes that the University of Chicago Library have put online a searchable version of Woodhouse’s English-Greek Dictionary. At first glance, it looks as though this–although it has a bit of a clunky search engine–will be a nice complement to … Continue reading →

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CEDOPAL catalogue of literary papyri online

Posted on 2006-01-04 by Gabriel Bodard

Announced today via the PAPY list (and elsewhere): Le CEDOPAL a le plaisir d’annoncer la mise en ligne de l’intégralité du “Catalogue des papyrus littéraires grecs et latins” (6.855 notices au 29.12.2005) et sa consultation au moyen d’un module de … Continue reading →

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Abzu expanding

Posted on 2006-01-03 by chuckjones

I have begun to expand the scope of Abzu to include Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology in addition to the ancient Near East. Abzu is an index to open access material served from stable platforms. It covers material realting to the … Continue reading →

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“Radical Change for Tenure”

Posted on 2006-01-02 by chuckjones

Peyer Suber reports on Scott Jaschik, Radical Change for Tenure, Inside Higher Ed, December 30, 2005. Jashik sumarizes discussion in a special panel of the MLA focussed on overhaul of tenure review procedures. Among other things, the panel wants departments … Continue reading →

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Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics

Posted on 2005-12-28 by Gabriel Bodard

http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/ Quoted from the site: Publisher: Department of Classics, Princeton University The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the Classics Department of Stanford University. Its purpose is to make … Continue reading →

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BMCR calls for reviewers of electronic publication projects

Posted on 2005-12-22 by scaife

BMCR editors Richard Hamilton and James J. O’Donnell reflect on the paucity of reviews of electronic publications, in BMCR and elsewhere: … we have not sustained a community of practice around serious reviews of web-based publications. This is a concern … Continue reading →

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