Category Archives: Tools

Thesaurus linguae Latinae CD-Version workshop

Posted on 2007-01-10 by smahony

Something of interest for all Latinists in or near London: The Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Digital Classicist would like to invite all those interested to a workshop on the CD-Version of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae. Dr … Continue reading →

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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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Threats to Preservation

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 lists some Bad Things That Can Happen Media failure Hardware failure Software failure Network failure Obsolescence Natural Disaster Operator error Internal Attack External Attack Organization Failure Economic Failure and she notes that LOCKSS is one … Continue reading →

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Teaching and learning scenarios for Google Earth

Posted on 2006-11-14 by scaife

EduCause has a two-pager, and Google has its own page for educators.

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Firefox extension for humanities scholars

Posted on 2006-11-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Has anyone tried using this? Is it actually useful?

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On avoiding death-by-PowerPoint

Posted on 2006-08-31 by scaife

Just enountered this engaging blog: Presentation Zen.

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Google’s Writely now available (again)

Posted on 2006-08-18 by scaife

from Ars Technica: Editing is straightforward enough, and not noticeably different from working in good old MS Word or OpenOffice. Tables, images, the ususal lineup of fonts—it’s all there. The right-click menu tends to be obscured by the browser’s equivalent. … Continue reading →

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Google maps for timelines

Posted on 2006-08-09 by juangarces

From Semantic Humanities: Simile at MIT have recently come up with a timeline widget api – google maps for timelines. It lets you plot events and time ranges (taken from either XML or JSON) onto timelines, and it’s all pretty … Continue reading →

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browser sync

Posted on 2006-06-07 by scaife

Been waiting for this tool for years.

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New AJAX development tools

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

from the Google blog: AJAX has the power to make your site more compelling and more dynamic, but AJAX development is often complicated, with much of the development time spent working around browser quirks and the fragility of AJAX components. … Continue reading →

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SketchUp plus GoogleEarth for modeling of buildings from Olynthus, Pompeii, the Acropolis…

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

Idea for a new collaborative project: we need to be able to zoom in with GoogleEarth to various archaeological sites and see a collection of 3D study models sitting in place there. SketchUp Google Earth 3D Warehouse Here’s a short … Continue reading →

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Etymologies on iPod (CHE)

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

A company called iPREPpress that has already created a line of iPod-ready crib notes for great literary works now hopes to turn students’ MP3 players into veritable reference shelves. The company has joined forces with Merriam-Webster Inc. to release a … Continue reading →

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Student-Generated Timelines

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

from Academic Commons Student-Generated Timelines In Teaching and Technology Malcolm Brown from Darmouth’s Academic Computing Services polled a list I am on, looking for software to allow students to generate timelines. Owen Ellard from Mt. Holyoke pointed him to the … Continue reading →

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Getting Data into Google Earth using Arc2Earth

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Brian Flood has a post on the apparently straightforward task of presenting GIS data through Google Earth.

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“the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform”

Posted on 2006-03-23 by scaife

Michael Robertson intends to offer six new Ajax applications, one each week, via his  ajaxLaunch.com site.  He’s begun with a new word processor, ajaxWrite.

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