Category Archives: Publications

What’s all this about furr-burr?

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Tom Elliott

Greg Crane wants me to think about Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Steven MacCall’s lecture slides on Historical Overview of Information Organization, AKA The ‘From Tablets to FRBR’ Lecture (requires Flash) seem like a good place to get started. … Continue reading →

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Readings in Digital History

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Tom Elliott

By way of Dan Cohen’s blog, I discovered Bill Turkel’s list of nearly 100 books relevant to digital history. The meme is a comps reading list for an imaginary digital history sub-field. I was psyched to see geographic history and … Continue reading →

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New Journal: Open Access Research

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

A new journal entitled Open Access Research (OAR) is now accepting submissions and plans its first issue (thereafter, thrice a year) in August 2007. It’s described as “a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will enable greater interaction and facilitate a deeper … Continue reading →

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Open Course Ware

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot, a comment by Kent Simon: “Many people may not know that MIT has initiated OpenCourseWare, an initiative to share all of their educational resources with the public. This generous act is intended (in classical MIT style) to … Continue reading →

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A Companion to Digital Humanities online

Posted on 2007-01-10 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Humanist: I’m pleased to announce that the complete text of A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) is now freely available online, at http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ —please forward this announcement to other … Continue reading →

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Under the tree

Posted on 2006-12-26 by scaife

My wife just gave me a copy of John Maeda’s The Laws of Simplicity, a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while. Maeda, whom I heard once at an ACH-ALLC meeting in Georgia, ranks on my top-three list … Continue reading →

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Our Cultural Commonwealth

Posted on 2006-12-21 by scaife

From the ACLS: The ACLS is pleased to announce that “Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences” was released December 13, 2006. In 2004, ACLS … Continue reading →

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3D and Museum Exhibitions

Posted on 2006-12-20 by scaife

From Current Cites: Entlich, Richard. “The Missing Dimension in Web-based Museum Exhibitions: Obstacles to Adding Depth to Digital Data” RLG DigiNews 10(6)(15 December 2006). – This “FAQ” feature in RLG DigiNews “provides a brief discussion about the development of 3D … Continue reading →

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Mass digitization of books

Posted on 2006-12-20 by scaife

From Current Cites: Coyle, Karen. “Mass Digitization of Books” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32(6)(November 2006): 641-645. – A very well done overview of mass and near-mass digitization of books by Google, the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft, Project Gutenberg, and … Continue reading →

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Intel developing electronic Qur’an

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

from Engadget: The device, known as the E-Quran, is a handheld, low-power computer … which contains the full text of the Islamic holy book along with audio versions in 40 languages and interactive, interpretive material.

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New technologies for Euclid’s Elements

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Greg Crane points out a new paper by Mark J. Schiefsky: The specific purpose of this paper is to describe a set of new software tools and some of their applications to the study of Euclid’s Elements. More generally, it … Continue reading →

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Call for examples from “TEI by Example”

Posted on 2006-12-16 by scaife

The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) http://www.kantl.be/ctb/ of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ of King’s College London, and the School for Library, Archive, and Information … Continue reading →

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Open Access Pantheon

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

From Neel Smith comes word of The Pantheon Project – The Pilot Project of the Karman Center. Definitely worth a look, with very nice OA policies covering the core project data: … many questions remain concerning the design, construction, statics, … Continue reading →

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ePhilology: when the books talk to their readers

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

Curious about where classics might go in a digital world? See the preprint of a new article about ePhilology (by Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University) that will appear in The Blackwell … Continue reading →

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CHE on historical visualizations

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

With Digital Maps, Historians Chart a New Way Into the Past: A push to make historical data more visual could yield a better understanding of events

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