Monthly Archives: July 2004

BBC NEWS: Call for freely available science

According to BBC: Call for freely available science, a Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons wants: publicly funded research to be made freely available online by means of archived digital information banks [and urges] the government … Continue reading

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Open Publication on Silk Road Seattle?

In a recent post to Sogdian-L, John Hill announced the on-line availability of the first draft of his annotated translation of the Weilue, a 3rd century CE Chinese text that, among other things, preserves unique information about maritime routes to … Continue reading

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Diogenes

Peter Heslin writes that he has updated Diogenes, his freeware (GPL) tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. Here’s … Continue reading

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Imagining the Blogosphere

Worth reading, I think, is Graham Lampa’s “Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing” but I do wonder about the level of historical perspective in comments like this: The low-cost appeal of instant publishing promotes … Continue reading

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Microsoft, markup, and electronic editions

Interesting thoughts in an email from Neel Smith: Microsoft is selling through Amazon its copyrighted version of the U.S. Constitution. (Honest — there’s no way I could make up stuff this good.) I gather that the copyright claims are based … Continue reading

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CFP: ANCIENT STUDIES — NEW TECHNOLOGY III

from Ralph Mathisen: The third biennial conference on the topic of “Ancient Studies — New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies” will be held December 3-5, 2004, at James … Continue reading

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