Category Archives: Publications

Sounds familiar!

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Scott Jaschik, Publishing and Values, Inside Higher Ed, August 22, 2007: A number of outside observers believe that the tensions visible in anthropology this week are challenging other disciplines, too. “At the most fundamental level, we’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

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The Metrics of Social Scholarship

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Laura Cohen’s Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective: I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Jensen’s piece, The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority, published in The Chronicle on June 15. This is one of the best articles I’ve read about metrics that can … Continue reading →

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AWMC/Pleiades bibliographic records

Posted on 2007-08-03 by scaife

Staff and affiliates of the Ancient World Mapping Center and its Pleiades Project have released draft set of bibliographic records. The information in it was compiled initially from citation handlists and other unpublished working papers of the Classical Atlas Project … Continue reading →

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Archaeological Computing: available for review

Posted on 2007-08-01 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve just spotted that this book is still available for review from BMCR after a month since it was listed as available. Surely there must be someone here who would like to get a copy and could review it? *Eiteljorg, … Continue reading →

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CommentPress 1.0 released

Posted on 2007-07-25 by scaife

CommentPress is a free theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained … Continue reading →

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Chiron pool at Flickr

Posted on 2007-06-27 by scaife

Alun Salt notes Recently the 5000th photo was uploaded to the Chiron pool at Flickr. That’s over 5000 photos connected to antiquity which you can pick up and use in presentations or blogs for free. It’s due in no small … Continue reading →

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100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s)

Posted on 2007-06-25 by smahony

Saw this on Humanist. Anything out there and also freely available for UK English? A new 100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s) is now freely available at: http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ The corpus is based on more than 275,000 articles in … Continue reading →

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Promise and challenge: augmenting places with sources

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has some very interesting things to say about “the widespread digitization of historical sources” and — near and dear to my heart — “augmenting places with sources”: William J. Turkel, “Seeing There,” Digital History Hacks, 18 June 2007 … Continue reading →

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Rome Reborn 1.0

Posted on 2007-06-11 by scaife

from the Chronicle for Higher Education: Ancient Rome Restored — Virtually A group of Virginians and Californians has rebuilt ancient Rome. And today they received the grateful thanks of the modern city’s mayor. The rebuilding marked by this ceremony has … Continue reading →

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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D

Posted on 2007-06-05 by scaife

Amy Hackney Blackwell has a new piece in Wired on the just-concluded month-long effort to digitize Venetus A at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.  (There’s a nice gallery of images too.) I was fortunate to be part of this CHS-sponsored … Continue reading →

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OA in Classics…

Posted on 2007-06-04 by scaife

Josiah Ober, Walter Scheidel, Brent D. Shaw and Donna Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics” in Hesperia, Volume: 76, Issue: 1. Cover date: Jan-Mar 2007

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New work on Johannes Tinctoris

Posted on 2007-05-09 by scaife

Ronald Woodley, Professor of Music in the Department of Research at the Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England, has substantially upgraded his site here at the Stoa on Johannes Tinctoris, prominent music theorist of the Renaissance. The project includes a … Continue reading →

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Image [&] Narrative issue on The Digital Archive

Posted on 2007-05-09 by Gabriel Bodard

The April 2007 issue of the online journal Image [&] Narrative is devoted to ‘The Digital Archive’. The table of Contents includes: Redefining the Limits of Space and Time on the Web, Jean Nicolas de Surmont Distances digitales : combinatoire … Continue reading →

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Propylaeum-DOK

Posted on 2007-04-27 by chuckjones

An interesting new project at Heidelberg: “Propylaeum-DOK, der Volltextserver der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaft, Propylaeum wird von der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg bereitgestellt. Die Publikationsplattform bietet Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern weltweit die Möglichkeit, ihre Veröffentlichungen aus allen Fachbereichen der Altertumswissenschaften kostenlos und in elektronischer … Continue reading →

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Pulitzer Prizes need updated categories

Posted on 2007-04-17 by scaife

Winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prizes in various categories were announced yesterday.  Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a prize for a blogger.  If there had been, I can’t imagine a more deserving recipient than K.C. Johnson, for bravely staring down the … Continue reading →

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