Monthly Archives: July 2005

WordPress

Posted on 2005-07-30 by scaife

WordPress updated following richly deserved hack of older software. New themes and posts and posters coming soon…

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Wiki Classical Dictionary

Posted on 2005-07-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Humbul (Classics section) Main Title : Wiki classical dictionary (WCD) Web Address (URL): http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/ Description : The Wiki Classical Dictionary (WCD), a project of the website ancientlibrary.com, is an online resource devoted to the history, literature, mythology and … Continue reading →

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Open Access Archivangelism: new blog

Posted on 2005-07-20 by scaife

Steven Harnad has a new blog, Open Access Archivangelism: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access at http://openaccess.eprints.org/

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Project Vivarium

Posted on 2005-07-20 by Gabriel Bodard

GU Receives Grant for Resources in the Classics The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $260,000 grant to Project Vivarium, a collaborative effort of researchers at Georgetown, Harvard, University of Virginia (UVA) and City University of New York (CUNY) aimed … Continue reading →

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The July/August 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine

Posted on 2005-07-19 by scaife

From the new issue of D-Lib magazine: Funding for Digital Libraries Research: Past and Present Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work William H. Mischo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Where Do We Go From Here? … Continue reading →

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GreekTranscoder

Posted on 2005-07-15 by scaife

David-Artur Daix writes to say that version 1.0.2 of the GreekTranscoder is now available from: http://www.greektranscoder.org “The program has been much improved. The Vilnius University encoding in particular is now supported. A complete version history is available on the web … Continue reading →

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Time for Congress to act

Posted on 2005-07-05 by scaife

The commons-blog quotes an unsigned opinion piece in the Economist: Copyright was originally intended to encourage publication by granting publishers a temporary monopoly on works so they could earn a return on their investment. But the internet and new digital … Continue reading →

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Relax and enjoy it

Posted on 2005-07-05 by scaife

Michael Jensen, Presses Have Little to Fear From Google, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2005. discussing the strategy of National Academies Press (hat tip, Open Access News): Every new book we published was scanned and made navigable online, free, … Continue reading →

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Iconoclasm

Posted on 2005-07-04 by scaife

Troels Myrup Kristensen, who keeps a nice collection of photographs here, has begun a new blog, “Towards an Archaeology of Iconoclasm,” to track his “thesis-in-progress on early Christian iconoclasm in the fourth century CE.”

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ACH/ALLC 2005

Posted on 2005-07-01 by scaife

Lots of impressive work on display and under discussion at the recent ACH/ALLC in Victoria, as always. Three sessions that particularly caught my attention were 1) VMLA: a system created by Brian Fuchs and others on top of the Digital … Continue reading →

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on personal digital collections

Posted on 2005-07-01 by scaife

Neil Beagrie, “Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections” D-Lib Magazine 11.6 (June 2005) Extract: The growing abundance of personal data and collection outlined in this article will present numerous challenges to individuals, including: how to … Continue reading →

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