Monthly Archives: November 2004

Says Chris Blackall of the welcome new blog Digital Encyclopedia (about pay-for-view and open-access digital encyclopedias): Suber’d * Definition: To be blogged in Peter Suber’s Open Access News; the open access equivalent of being slashdotted, that is, mentioned in http://slashdot.org/ … Continue reading →

The Academic Culture and the IT Culture: Their Effect on Teaching and Scholarship A year ago, my colleague Charles Grisham and I wrote an EDUCAUSE Review article entitled “Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet).” In short, … Continue reading →

I am writing to announce a new web site, “Inscriptions from the Land of Israel.” The primary goal of this site is to create a searchable database of inscriptions, along with their contextual information (e.g., images and geographical data), of … Continue reading →

Here’s an e-mail to the TEI-L list from Eric Lease Morgan of Notre Dame: In my copious spare time, I wrote a set of object oriented Perl scripts to manage TEI files — my TEI publisher: http://infomotions.com/musings/tei-publisher/ The system is … Continue reading →

UPDATE: Here’s a valuable overview and critique of this new service. from Peter Suber’s indispensable Open Access News blog: Tomorrow Google will launch the beta version of Google Scholar, although it is online today for use. From the press release: … Continue reading →

The Ancient World Mappping Center has begun to archive its collection of digital images on www.stoa.org, at http://www.stoa.org/gallery/awmc. And Mark Lehman has begun The Ruth and Louise McCollum Memorial Collection of Ancient Coins at http://www.stoa.org/gallery/lehman.

Neel Smith just alerted me to Science Commons, a new project of Creative Commons set to launch on January 1, 2005: The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries … Continue reading →

The Scout Report today notes that Firefox is now out of beta, below, but they miss what I like the most about it: the ability to set up RSS feeds as live bookmarks right in your toolbar. Great feature for … Continue reading →

Sounds like a new blockbuster movie, but it’s a report from the BOAI-forum newsletter: On November 4th-5th 2004 a very successful Open Access event was held in Italy: thirty-two institutions (31 Italian Universities and 1 research centre) gathered in Messina, … Continue reading →

The ever-resourceful Tom Elliott of the AWMC has put together his own new aggregator of various blogs that focus on Classsics and Classical Archaeology, called Web Watch. Explains Tom: (1) It only sucks a feed when I tell it to, … Continue reading →

Professor Elise Garrison has added an essay on male suicides to her study of ancient suicides in Diotima. Now her set of materials includes: Suicide in Classical Mythology: An Essay Part I: Suicidal Females Part II: Suicidal Males Suicidal Females … Continue reading →

from dealmac.com: The December issue of Consumer Reports magazine features Apple’s new iMac G5 on the front cover along with the caption, “Unspectacular results for Intel’s new processor. Plus 59,940 reasons to reconsider Macs. “Inside the issue, Consumer Reports writes, … Continue reading →

From David Perry: A major update to Cardo, a Unicode font designed for scholars, is now available at scholarsfonts.net. Version .98 adds over 1400 new characters, including all the Greek characters proposed for Unicode by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, variants … Continue reading →

from Sebastian Rahtz: The customization of Knoppix made for the recent TEI members meeting can now be downloaded from http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/downloads/ This is an ISO CD image, which most burning software will understand. You need a 700 mbyte blank CD. Usage: … Continue reading →

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1973-74, and now it’s freely available on-line at The Electronic Text Center at the … Continue reading →