Monthly Archives: August 2004

AWMC gets a face-lift

Tom Elliott over at the Ancient World Mapping Center announces a redesign of the site. Crisp and clean.

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new Nashville Parthenon pics, et cet.

Ten days after it was begun, the Stoa Image Gallery at www.stoa.org offers 1023 publicly available images in 5 top-level albums (49 albums total). Coverage includes: Nashville Parthenon (83 new images) Greece (Athens, Piraeus, sites on Crete and in the … Continue reading

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An early adopter!

There are over 130 digital photographs in Stephen Arnold’s new album on the Stoa Image Gallery, including a great many North African mosaics. And he’s got a lot more on the way. Stephen’s image of the Vergil Mosiac in the … Continue reading

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APA and Electronic Publication

APA Vice President Barbara McManus sends along some thoughts on the current state of affairs at the APA regarding electronic publication. Although the American Philological Association was a very early leader in the publication of “machine-readable” texts and has supported … Continue reading

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Stoa Image Gallery

Today we announce availability of the new Stoa Image Gallery, an Open Access repository for digital images and video related to Classics, Classical Archaeology, and the classical tradition. We have implemented this project on a dedicated server running Gallery image-management … Continue reading

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“Blogging is for everyone.”

UBIQUITY: So should everybody in the world have his or her own blog? ITO: A lot of it has to do with what the definition of a blog is, but to generalize what a blog is, you might think of … Continue reading

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Open Audiobooks Project

Ryan Gabbard has recently begun a new and interesting collaborative project: The goal of the Open Audiobooks Project is for volunteers to work together to create audio books of public domain texts for people to freely download, distribute, and modify. … Continue reading

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Online Research Centers

From the CHE: A glance at the July issue of The Americas: The scholar’s role in building online-resource collections Scholars should embrace the chance to work with archivists to build online research centers, which can provide “resources that would be … Continue reading

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