Category Archives: Publications

Preservation Watch Report

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

Via the JISC-Repositories list comes notice of a report summarizing some current initiatives in digital preservation. This is one of a growing list of reports produced by the Jorum Repository Service.

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Open Access on the ANE-2 List

Posted on 2006-07-17 by Tom Elliott

A subscriber to the ANE-2 List has reposted there, with permission, an e-circular attributed to the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation [MSSRF] (Chennai, India) which calls for the: [proactive promotion] of ‘open access’ to scientific and scholarly literature so even … Continue reading →

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The “dread fear”

Posted on 2006-07-13 by scaife

Would that everyone were as cool-headed about the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia as Roy Rosenzweig. But as Infocult’s Bryan Alexander comments today on a Washington Post article: “In educational settings, I’m still getting signals that the Wikipedia is a … Continue reading →

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Can History Be Open Source?

Posted on 2006-07-13 by Tom Elliott

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has recently posted to the web a long and thoughtful article by Roy Rosenzweig entitled “Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” It was … Continue reading →

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Sagalassos excavations and Google Earth

Posted on 2006-07-12 by scaife

Troels Kristensen (Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm) has a post about resumption of the excavations at Sagalassos and the presentation of that site in Google Earth. The latter is very nicely done, with a map overlay, geophysical map, and pointers … Continue reading →

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Microsoft bends on OpenDocument

Posted on 2006-07-06 by scaife

(hat tip Peter Suber) Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open-source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. The software giant on Thursday launched the Open XML … Continue reading →

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TEI by example, initial report, 2006/06/09

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

TEI by example, initial report, 2006/06/09

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Open Context: Sharing Archaeological Data Digitally

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from About Archaeology: A new tool in the open source arsenal announced its beta launch last week. Called Open Context, the project involves scientists from Cambridge University (UK), Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, U.C. Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, … Continue reading →

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Google Shakespeare, Google Book Search, Google Sketchup model

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Google’s Book Blog (devoted to the Google Book Search project) has an entry on the Google Shakespeare project. This latter site seems to give a good feel for some of the things Google wants to do with its digitized books. … Continue reading →

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Yet another site about Fair Use

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

From the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law: The Fair Use Network

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The Colors of Clay

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

from the Scout Report today: 14. The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/colors_clay/homepage.html This web exhibition from The Getty takes you on a gently guided tour of the various ways in which Athenian vase … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Maps

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

from Humanist: A new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/ This issue’s theme is Dynamic maps, and it is guest edited by Patrik Svensson. Digital maps offer exciting new possibilities for humanities and social … Continue reading →

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A new Blog: Digging Digitally

Posted on 2006-05-31 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa of The Alexandria Archive Initiative, has initiated a new blog Digging Digitally: Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education on behelf of the Digital Data Interest Group of the SAA. “DDIG members can use this blog to … Continue reading →

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Pamphlet on web services

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

from Current Cites: Breeding, Marshall. Web Services and the Service-Oriented Architecture Chicago, IL: ALA TechSource, 2006. – The advent of XML and protocols such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) which uses it are transforming the way our computer … Continue reading →

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Arxiv includes some research on matters related to the ancient world

Posted on 2006-05-30 by scaife

Alun Salt at blogographos notes the presence of certain academic papers on classics-related topics in the physicists’ OA repository.

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