Category Archives: Tools

Gentium released under the SIL Open Font License

Posted on 2005-11-29 by scaife

Gentium has now been re-released under a license that permits modification and redistribution – the SIL Open Font License. This is an exciting new development that will give great freedom to people who find Gentium useful, and the freedom to … Continue reading →

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PHI Online

Posted on 2005-10-20 by Gabriel Bodard

We have just spotted the Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions database online version. http://erga.packhum.org/inscriptions/ I have been unable to learn if this is (a) a permanent fixture, or in particular (b) a permanent URL. The site has a good index … Continue reading →

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Subversion client

Posted on 2005-10-18 by scaife

Just found a quick way to get a Subversion client going on a Mac that hasn’t got Fink on it, here at Metissian.com. (Also here.) Click to install the package, check /etc/profile to be sure /usr/local/bin is in the path, … Continue reading →

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D-Lib

Posted on 2005-10-17 by scaife

Juicy stuff in D-Lib this month: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora … Continue reading →

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Care to comment on a Greek font?

Posted on 2005-10-13 by chuckjones

The Society of Biblcal Literature [SBL] has an interesting model for the development of fonts that are “… attractive and legible on computer screens and in print, include characters and symbols found in critical editions, display complex scripts, and transfer … Continue reading →

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Rollyo

Posted on 2005-10-11 by scaife

Folks who recall the now-defunct Argos LASE (limited area search engine) may be interested in Klaus Graf‘s experiments with Rollyo, a site that lets you limit search results to certain sources. Klaus has now created a neo-Latin Rollyo, and an … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist: Announcement and Call for Participation

Posted on 2005-09-26 by scaife

Dieser Aufruf zur Beteiligung kann man auch auf deutsch lesen Cet appel à participation se trouve aussi en français Questa richiesta di partecipazione e’ disponibile anche in Italiano We should like to announce the creation of a new project and … Continue reading →

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BMCR review of Antiquarium 2.0

Posted on 2005-09-06 by Gabriel Bodard

Two Italian scholars, Berti and Costa, have a review in BMCR 2004.09.10 of the Antiquarium software for reading the TLG and PHI CD Roms. They make some sound (and enthusiastic) observations about the price, speed, ease of use, and comprehensive … Continue reading →

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DigInc

Posted on 2005-08-22 by scaife

The Stoa now mirrors the Digital Incunabula site from the Center for Hellenic Studies.

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Computers learn a new language

Posted on 2005-08-10 by Gabriel Bodard

This story has implications for speech synthesis and language analysis. It would be great to see this applied to Latin or Greek via a corpus like the TLG. (From New Scientist) Computers learn a new language • 06 August 2005 … Continue reading →

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