Monthly Archives: March 2005

I have put on my website a draft of a document that surveys the current “state of the art” in font and application software. If you want to know which programs support Unicode well and which ones offer support for … Continue reading →

Via Lawrence Lessig’s blog comes news of a beta search engine for CC content at Yahoo. Some Stoa CC content shows up (City of Athens, Demos) but not all (SOL, Erasmus), so I’ll have to look into that. Much more … Continue reading →

Great news! This is to announce the publication of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, revised second edition. You will find details of how to cite the material on the Home page. You will also find a very full Help page, if … Continue reading →

The complete text of the forthcoming MLA volume, Electronic Textual Editing, funded by the Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Text Encoding Initiative and the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions, is now freely available at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/ETE/. The volume’s … Continue reading →

Professor Lessig takes the pledge. Good on him.

On the Aegeanet list, Christos Galanis is asking insightful questions about the TLG. I’d be glad to know the answers, myself.

José M. Ciordia emailed today with word of Pompilo: Diario esporádico de un profesor de griego: Hello, I am the author of a blog for teachers of Ancient Greek in Secondary Schools of Spain. Its name is “Pompilo” and its … Continue reading →

Thanks to Chuck Jones for an alert concerning a paper by Denise Nitterhouse, “Digital Production Strategies for Scholarly Publishers.” By “scholarly publishers” Nitterhouse means traditional university presses, and her paper is about strategies for avoiding their extinction. From the conclusion: … Continue reading →

Via Rogueclassicism, an interesting piece on the LIFEPLUS immersive reality technologies being applied to Pompeii. We are, for the first time, able to run this combination of software processes to create walking, talking people with believable clothing, skin and hair … Continue reading →

Just received an alert from Charles Bailey regarding his monumental effort, available in book form or as a free PDF: The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference … Continue reading →

From an article in Wired on Wikipedia (hat tip to Peter Suber): In the beginning, encyclopedias relied on the One Smart Guy model. In ancient Greece, Aristotle put pen to papyrus and single-handedly tried to record all the knowledge of … Continue reading →

Among the talks delivered for a recent convocation on Scholarly Communications in a Digital World at UNC there are several of interest: Copyright Issues and Scholarly Communications, Laura N. Gasaway, Director, Law Library (“Perhaps those of us within academia are … Continue reading →