Monthly Archives: April 2005

Google’s effort to digitize scholarly libraries is starting to bear fruit. Try “Melian Dialogue,” for instance, or “Erechtheum.” More here. Update: Klaus Graf kindly points out my error in the posting above: “Google Print is a cooperation with publishers, Google … Continue reading →

The TEI Wiki is up and running.

Thanks to Neel Smith for alerting me to James Boyle: Deconstructing Stupidity. Sample: Thomas Macaulay told us copyright law is a tax on readers for the benefit of writers, a tax that shouldn’t last a day longer than necessary. What … Continue reading →

Peter Robinson: Several digital scholarly editions have indeed used these [TEI] guidelines profitably, so it must be said that in terms of their immediate aim—to provide encodings which would support such editions—the guidelines were and are successful. But in terms … Continue reading →

A substantive and interesting article on digitizing the world’s libraries here, including comments from various luminaries. This one caught my eye: “I chafe at the presumption that once you digitize, there is nothing left to do,â€? says Donald Waters, a … Continue reading →

I found the article by Peter Robinson in the inaugural issue of The Digital Medievalist (a new peer-reviewed on-line journal for technology and medieval studies) particularly useful: “Our goal must be to ensure that any scholar able to make an … Continue reading →

Amazon offers a clickable concordance and text stats for I am Charlotte Simmons.

The Organizing Committee invites you to attend the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4) from 20th-22nd October 2005. This fourth workshop in the series, which began life as the Open Archives Initiative Workshop in 2001, is a forum … Continue reading →

Brent Seales had me tag along with him to Oxford and London last week (so we could discuss this process with various people), and we took a few pictures, which I’ve now posted for anyone’s arbitrary use in www.stoa.org. There … Continue reading →

Alun Salt, commenting on why we in the humanities don’t have the functional equivalent of Arxiv in place yet: [T]echnophobia is an endearing character quirk in the Arts rather than a sign of academic incompetence. I don’t think it’s a … Continue reading →

Steven Harnad reports on the BOAI list that The University of Kansas has become the first US University to adopt a university-wide open-access self-archiving policy. The policy is registered and described at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Other universities and research institutions are encouraged … Continue reading →

The Stoa Image Gallery at www.stoa.org is available again on a newer, better box after a week of machine failures.

The Columbia University Senate unanimously passed the following resolution April 1: WHEREAS the Senate is empowered by University statutes §23 c and e to “work for the advancement of academic freedom… [and] initiate and review policies to govern the University’s … Continue reading →

The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce that John M. Unsworth is the fourth winner of the Richard W. Lyman Award. A committee of scholars selected him for his critical efforts to make it possible for others to do … Continue reading →

An encouraging message about a new publishing framework for TEI-XML documents on the TEI list yesterday: We are delighted to announce a beta release of teiPublisher, an extensible, modular and configurable xml-based repository. teiPublisher was developed to bridge the gap … Continue reading →