Monthly Archives: August 2005

ITSEE

From Mark Goodacre’s blog, notice of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, led by Peter Robinson and David Parker. Interesting web site, with descriptions of several meaty-sounding projects.

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Comparisons

John Langford and Martin Pool have a worthwhile post on the Machine Learning (Theory) blog on “(Dis)similarities between academia and open source programmers.” (Hat tip Peter Suber.)

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Virtual Agora from FHW

(Yahoo press release; seen on Rogueclassicism) Late next year, Foundation of the Hellenic World’s (www.fhw.gr) innovative cultural center/museum, Hellenic Cosmos, will feature an immersive virtual tour of Agora, the heart of ancient Athens. For the development of this stunning virtual … Continue reading

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BMCR on two digital dictionaries

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has posted a review by Gerald Verbrugghe (Rutgers University) on two digital dictionaries: Libronix Digital Library System, H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (rev. H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie, rev. supp. by P.G.W. … Continue reading

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Atlas of Europe

The Atlas of Europe website now includes several interactive physical maps; for example the clickable map showing European rivers (http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/hydrography.htm), and mountain ranges (http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/Orography.htm). Some nice effects. (Euratlas also features maps of Ancient Rome, historical atlases, and other resources. And … Continue reading

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BMCR review of Jacoby CD Rom

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-08-37.html F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. CD-Rom Edition. Leiden: Brill, 2004. ISBN 90-04-14137-5. €1,500.00. Reviewed by John Marincola, The Florida State University (jmarinco@mailer.fsu.edu) The review includes some good comments on the limitations of such an edition which is … Continue reading

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DigInc

The Stoa now mirrors the Digital Incunabula site from the Center for Hellenic Studies.

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Academic Commons

The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College has launched Academic Commons, “a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education”. The site offers essays, reviews, and interviews, as well … Continue reading

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ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship program

With great pleasure we accede to Saul Fisher’s request for posting of the following announcement from ACLS: ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation … Continue reading

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Okus — reading environment for Classical Greek texts

from the mailbag this morning: Dear Member of Classics Department or Classical Organization: As the academic year approaches, I am writing to inform you about a new computer application, Okus, that is available for studying ancient Greek texts. Okus incorporates … Continue reading

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Latin inscriptions from Wales

This website, by Karel Jongeling (University of Leiden), aims to list the Latin epigraphic evidence surviving in Wales. The Latin inscriptions may be searched in a variety of ways, and are partly furnished with translations, drawings and photographs. Search options … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist blog on Stoa

This is probably self-evident by now, but I should like to announce that the Digital Classicist blog, formerly on eBlogger, has moved and merged with the Stoa blog. We intend to publish more news items on this site regarding events, … Continue reading

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Dumezil Online (in DJVu)

(Seen on Rogueclassicism) AM over at Sauvage Noble points us to the existence of an amazing (potentially) site dedicated to the work of Georges Dumezil. Most (if not all) of GD’s scholarly papers are available online in DJVu format … … Continue reading

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Inaugural International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation 2005

University of Abertay Dundee Thursday 10th November 2005 Colloquium announcement and call for papers In November, the University of Abertay Dundee in conjunction with the Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield Trust will host the Inaugural International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and … Continue reading

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Computers learn a new language

This story has implications for speech synthesis and language analysis. It would be great to see this applied to Latin or Greek via a corpus like the TLG. (From New Scientist) Computers learn a new language • 06 August 2005 … Continue reading

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