Category Archives: Publications

Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment. Core recommendations: We need to nurture and validate digital scholarship and digitally literate scholars. We need … Continue reading →

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Preprint repository for two university classics departments

Posted on 2005-12-19 by scaife

from Peter Suber: Princeton and Stanford have launched Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an OA preprint repository. However, deposits are limited to faculty from the two universities and there’s no sign that it’s OAI-compliant. (Thanks to Josiah Ober via LibLicense.) … Continue reading →

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Text movies for two neo-Latin colloquia

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Dot Porter, Program Coordinator for RCH at UK, has assembled QuickTime movies for certain colloquia (text and audio combined via SMIL files): Erasmus: Abbatis et Eruditae Erasmus: Echo Technically I suppose these aren’t really text movies as Apple defines them, … Continue reading →

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Mysteries at Eleusis visual image collection

Posted on 2005-12-02 by scaife

Fiona C. Patrick (Project Coordinator, Digital Consulting & Production Services) sends word of the following: Cornell University Library is pleased to announce the availability of “Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions,” a digital collection of approximately 800 images from the … Continue reading →

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Numismatic Wiki

Posted on 2005-11-24 by Gabriel Bodard

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp The Forum Ancient Coins have set up a new Wiki for the collaborative authoring and editing of numismatic articles online. I’m not familiar with this site, which seems to include catalogues of coins for sale, so I’m not sure … Continue reading →

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Latin podcasting experiment

Posted on 2005-11-13 by scaife

William du Cassé (who’s enrolled in the flourishing UK Institute for Latin Studies) and I began a site this week for publication of recordings of neo-Latin colloquia saved as mp3 files. Should you want to keep track of new additions … Continue reading →

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OCA vs. Google Library

Posted on 2005-11-02 by scaife

Peter Suber compares the Open Content Alliance with Google Library in the most recent SPARC Open Access Newsletter (#91 November 2, 2005).

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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Posted on 2005-10-31 by chuckjones

Perhaps it just snuck by me, but I have no recollection of an announcement of the availability online of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. It seems that all of the out-of -print volumes of the CVA (a couple of hundred volumes?!?) … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities Quarterly

Posted on 2005-10-21 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for Submissions Digital Humanities Quarterly Submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions@digitalhumanities.org. … Continue reading →

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PHI Online

Posted on 2005-10-20 by Gabriel Bodard

We have just spotted the Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions database online version. http://erga.packhum.org/inscriptions/ I have been unable to learn if this is (a) a permanent fixture, or in particular (b) a permanent URL. The site has a good index … Continue reading →

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D-Lib

Posted on 2005-10-17 by scaife

Juicy stuff in D-Lib this month: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora … Continue reading →

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The Journal of Electronic Publishing

Posted on 2005-10-06 by ioannisg

The Journal of Electronic Publishing is an online journal published by the Michigan University Press. Publisher’s note Electronic publishing is changing the world we live in. It is changing what publishers do. It is changing the way scientists, business people, … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons: problems with -NC licenses

Posted on 2005-10-05 by scaife

Erik Möller, “Are Creative Commons-NC Licenses Harmful?” Podcasting News, October 4, 2005. Excerpt (via Peter Suber): When the Creative Commons project published its first licenses in December 2002, it finally brought a sense of unity behind the free content movement….One … Continue reading →

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Digital Watch

Posted on 2005-10-03 by scaife

via Open Access News: Digital Watch is an Open Access online academic journal, which has been created by graduate students in the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences to offer a forum for the discussion of issues relating to … Continue reading →

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IMEROS journal

Posted on 2005-09-29 by ioannisg

Imeros is the official journal of the Foundation of the Hellenic World. The journal mainly deals with issues relating to the use of technology in the fields of cultural heritage, education and so forth. Some of the articles featured in … Continue reading →

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