Monthly Archives: January 2005

The AIA, with open access to the full text of current issues of the AJA, a coveted slot in the DOAJ, and now two more interesting features, is moving far, far ahead of the APA, which is still all about … Continue reading →

We love to get fan mail: My talk about stoa.org went very well last night in Dr. Suzie Allard’s Digital Libraries class. Everyone was properly impressed by what you have done and just loved learning about the Classics and Humanities. … Continue reading →

Kudos to the American Section of the Institute for Etruscan and Italic studies for making their full-color newsletter freely available on line. It printed out beautifully on our office color printer, and I’d say it’s really quite substantive.

Dear Colleague, The Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies is delighted to announce: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BOOK Oxford Brookes University, 11-13 September 2005 http://www.Book-Conference.com The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to the … Continue reading →

Troels Myrup Kristensen has been adding to the Stoa image gallery lately. He has most recently posted some particularly nice shots of Greek sculpture, and other goodies from museums in Athens. I like his shot of the Stoa of Attalos.

Zack Hubert is doing interesting work with interfaces to a morphologically parsed text of the Greek New Testament, and also exposing that text as XML. Mark Goodacre’s NT Gateway Weblog repeats a summary. As Neel Smith says in a comment … Continue reading →

On the Humanist list, someone asked a couple of days ago what to do about a publisher who insisted on a clearly excessive surrendering of rights. Bob Kraft made a reply that I thought merits repeating, so with his permission … Continue reading →

A message from Lisa Cerrato, Managing Editor for the Perseus Project: The Perseus team would like to invite you to preview our new experimental interface. At this writing, the system and design are basic. The entire text delivery system, thousands … Continue reading →

“California INDUCE bill bans the Internet.“

There’s a new freeware OS X Unicode keyboard layout for ancient Greek, via VersionTracker. I’ve not yet tried it, but it says you type in TLG Beta Code, and you get Unicode out. Sounds useful for those of us with … Continue reading →

Interesting Flash presentations at the PBS site: What is a Palimpsest? Imaging the Palimpsest

Dr. Saul Fisher, who is Associate Program Officer for the Mellon Foundation’s program in Teaching and Technology, made a presentation at the recent MLA in Philadelphia entitled “The Open Source Movement and Higher Education: Consequences for the Humanities.” I found … Continue reading →

Culture-hero Lawrence Lessig comments amusingly on the neo-red-baiting practiced by Bill Gates. The episode is giving rise to some terrific new graphics from the Copy Left crowd!

Richard K. Johnson, The Future of Scholarly Communication in the Humanities: Adaptation or Transformation? A presentation at the meeting of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, December 30, 2004. Excerpt: The most compelling motivation for Congress and NIH to … Continue reading →

Today’s trivia quiz: what is the search term in Google’s example of public-access texts in their $150M library scanning project? Answer available here. Not such a bad thing if Google thinks this is what digital libraries are all about… (Thanks … Continue reading →