Monthly Archives: February 2005

International Architecture Database

The Scout Report today includes a description of the International Architecture Database, which includes textual and visual information concerning a few ancient temples. But what I like about the project is its built-in feedback mechanism, called the Pinboard, that apears … Continue reading

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Visualization

We are slowly making progress on a “tagger” that uses methods from computational linguistics to identify and tag named entities in arbitrary ancient texts. One can imagine various efforts at text visualization resulting from that initial stage of disambiguation. From … Continue reading

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Google toolbar

I find this rant fascinating and I wonder if there’s some way to turn this new feature to advantage…

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a message from Celia Luschnig

Deborah Mitchell, a software engineer and language enthusiast, has generously and expertly put the materials in support of my Introduction to Ancient Greek (as well as follow-up study guides) on the web, primarily for a study group but also to … Continue reading

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Asinology CFP

This looks quite wonderful.

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DOAR – the Directory of Open Access Repositories

from the BOAI list: A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called DOAR – the Directory of Open Access Repositories – will categorise and list the … Continue reading

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Kill as the Romans Kill

Care to experience life as a Roman gladiator? Show any mercy and you will earn nothing but jeers from the bloodthirsty crowd, but dismember your opponents without batting an eye and you’ll be a legend right up until your own … Continue reading

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Fedora Release 2.0

As noted at Open Access News, Fedora Release 2 is now available. Fedora is a general purpose repository service developed jointly by The University of Virginia Library and Cornell University. The Fedora project is devoted to the goal of providing … Continue reading

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