Monthly Archives: December 2004

“We celebrate the Promethean power of our labour and imagination to shape the virtual world.”

Publish or Be Damned is a recent BBC discussion of academic publishing issues, including the Open Access controversy.

Odyssey, a magazine about research at the University of Kentucky, has just published an article about the efforts of CS professor Brent Seales and his team to develop non-destructive methods for extracting information from delicate cultural artefacts. The project is … Continue reading →

From one of the Wordherders, extremely unwelcome news: The Education Department has canceled its annual grant competition for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education because Congress has earmarked the bulk of the program’s $163.6-million budget for pork-barrel projects. … Continue reading →

Janice Siegel has begun to create several albums of her photographs from various places of interest. So far there’s a collection from the British Museum, starting with a nice series of the Caryatid from the Erechtheion, and also lots from … Continue reading →

Lots of sources today on Google’s plan to digitize hundreds of terabytes of scholarship in several of the world’s largest research libraries over the next decade: Search Engine Watch Boston Globe, New York Times, BBC Chronicle of Higher Education Harvard … Continue reading →

From TEI-L, a mention of the new Wikipedia entry on the TEI.

Classic end-of-term displacement activity: I’ve created a bunch of Firefox search plugins for open content sites (Perseus, the Stoa, the Suda on Line, and the Latin Library), to accompany one for Perseus I found ready-made at the Firefox site. Just … Continue reading →

An earlier post to this blog summarizes new NEH-funded work on the problems of digitizing Latin incunabula. The project will disseminate its results very broadly, through publication of data on freely accessible sites like Perseus and in other university digital … Continue reading →

The Center for Hellenic Studies invites applications to two upcoming summer seminars on Greek scholarship and electronic publication. The first seminar (led by professors Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott) will be on “Homer: Research on Homeric Poetry, Emphasizing Textual Criticism” … Continue reading →

The Future of Digital Media is “a two-month series, sponsored by Orb, that explores how the empowerment of the consumer over his or her media experience, coupled with technological innovation that’s broadly democratizing media creation, is leading to a revolution … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Jeff Rydberg-Cox and others at the University of Missouri at Kansas-City for winning a substantial new grant from NEH Preservation and Access. Here is the summary of the proposal; be sure to note the smart plans for open … Continue reading →

In addition to the usual round-up of news from the past month, it takes a close look at the Congressional approval of the NIH public access plan and the UK government response to the open-access recommendations from the House of … Continue reading →

Wired has a short article about topic maps; here’s an excerpt: Databases and search engines provide instantaneous access to endless information about anyone or anything, but the search results often include as many misses as hits. To generate more-relevant answers, … Continue reading →