Category Archives: Publications

Sanity

Posted on 2006-10-27 by scaife

Emphasis added: For better or for worse, Wikipedia has become the first destination for many a student researcher. Does the site’s ubiquity mean that professors have a responsibility to contribute? “I feel I have an obligation to do so, at … Continue reading →

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20,000 entries for Suda On Line

Posted on 2006-10-04 by scaife

Progress Report (as of October 2, 2006): Assigned: 20,385 Translated: 20,001 Vetted: 19,998 A message from Managing Editor Bill Hutton to contributors and potential contributors: Dear contributors to the Suda On-Line: Yesterday the 20,000th was submitted to the Suda On … Continue reading →

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New humanities videos from UC Berkeley

Posted on 2006-09-28 by scaife

Among the Arts & Humanities videos just released by the University of California at Berkeley, there is “Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri.”

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On-line Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

A message from Judith Lynn Sebesta (University of South Dakota): Call for Collaborators to The On-line Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women The On-Line Companion to the Focus Reader, The Worlds of Roman Women,1 expands the book’s wide representation … Continue reading →

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Oral Tradition

Posted on 2006-09-21 by scaife

Via rogueclassicism comes the news that The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition now offers universal, free access to its academic journal.

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A pre-order special for Unicode 5.0

Posted on 2006-09-18 by scaife

The Unicode(R) Consortium announces that pre-orders of Version 5.0 of the Unicode Standard can be made now through the Unicode Consortium’s website. As a special introductory offer, The Unicode Guide — the handy tri-fold developer’s reference guide — will be … Continue reading →

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Google Book Search grants some PDF downloads

Posted on 2006-08-30 by scaife

from ars technica: Google went ahead and did it. Books no longer in copyright are now available for download from the Google Book Search site. If you’re looking for something tasty, might we recommend an early English translation of Montaigne’s … Continue reading →

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Site for Archimedes Palimpsest

Posted on 2006-08-20 by scaife

The Archimedes Palimpsest, much in the news lately, has an informative web site that describes some of the technologies being applied, significance of the work, and so forth.

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MuGeum: Roman Forum and Vicinity

Posted on 2006-08-16 by scaife

A MuGeum is a museum of places that are described by their geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude and altitude). A MuGeum can span any distance. A MuGeum may deal with one specific historic event (such as a discovery or a battle), … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

From Infocult: A recent Wired article makes the case for “crowdsourcing,” the practice of getting people from elsewhere to help you with a project.  It’s different from open source, in that outsiders aren’t contributing code, but ideas or media.

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Know it all!

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

The New Yorker has a worthwhile piece by Stacy Schiff on Wikipedia, full of interesting factoids and historical context. There are Aspergian Wikipedians (seventy-two), bipolar Wikipedians, vegetarian Wikipedians, antivegetarian Wikipedians, existential Wikipedians, pro-Luxembourg Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who don’t like to … Continue reading →

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if:book

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

Via Scribblings and Musings, word of an interesting new blog, if:book, sponsored by the Inbstitute for the Future of the Book.  One of the entries in the if:book blog references a chapter Clifford Lynch has written entitled, “Open Computation: Beyond … Continue reading →

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Good question!

Posted on 2006-08-08 by scaife

What’s wrong with this picture? By Peter Suber The UK National Archives has digitized The Domesday Book, “the earliest surviving public record” in British history.The book is in the public domain and the digitization was done at public expense, but … Continue reading →

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DAI Archaeological Bibliography goes OA

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

Sayonara, Dyabola: We would like to inform you that the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) compiles the four most important Bibliographies on archaeology: Archaeological Bibliography (Realkatalog) Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula Subject catalogue of the Roman-German Commission Bibliography … Continue reading →

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Surprising History of Copyright

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

This Thursday, 27 July 2006, Karl Fogel (of Google) is scheduled to chair a session at OSCON entitled: The (Surprising) History of Copyright, and What It Means for Open Source. You can view the abstract online, whence the following: Much … Continue reading →

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