Monthly Archives: September 2005

IMEROS journal

Imeros is the official journal of the Foundation of the Hellenic World. The journal mainly deals with issues relating to the use of technology in the fields of cultural heritage, education and so forth. Some of the articles featured in … Continue reading

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Project StORe Researcher

Applications are invited for a researcher to work on the White Rose Consortium (York, Sheffield, Leeds) contribution to this JISC-funded project, led by the University of Edinburgh. The post is based in York and you will be conducting a survey … Continue reading

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Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean

The Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean is an online atlas of the Aegean, created by the Ministry of the Aegean and the University of Athens, Greece. The Atlas is fully searchable and enables users to locate archaeological sites in mainland … Continue reading

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Copyfraud

Jason Mazzone, “Copyfraud,” Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 40, August 21, 2005. (Via Peter Suber and Klaus Graf.) Abstract: Copyright in a work now lasts for seventy years after the death of the author. Critics contend that this … Continue reading

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Support still missing

(via Peter Suber) Brock Read, A New Report Bemoans the State of Online Research on American Literature, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 28, 2005 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: Whether digitizing out-of-print novels or publishing their own criticism, a growing … Continue reading

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more on Google Print

Tom O’Reilly weighs in on the Authors’ Guild suit against Google in today’s New York Times: A search engine for books will be revolutionary in its benefits. Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement, or even … Continue reading

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Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity Creative Commons License

A clarification of the CC license terms from the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias: ALA 2004 Copyright clarification The Creative Commons license information applies specifically to the narrative materials of this website: the introduction, commentary, appendices and indices. The photographs and plans … Continue reading

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deep access to digitised cultural heritage material

Repeated here from the Humanist list by permission of the poster, Mats Dahlström (and note that the Classical Text Services protocol being developed principally by Neel Smith and Christopher Blackwell under the aegis of the Center for Hellenic Studies addresses … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist: Announcement and Call for Participation

Dieser Aufruf zur Beteiligung kann man auch auf deutsch lesen Cet appel à participation se trouve aussi en français Questa richiesta di partecipazione e’ disponibile anche in Italiano We should like to announce the creation of a new project and … Continue reading

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Suggestions for better data preservation

In “Digital Biblical Scholarship: Dust to Dust?” Patrick Durusau reflects on the role professional societies might play in the preservation of orphaned digital resources.

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“serious and irreversible damage”?

In “Journal publishing and author self-archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration” an interesting group of scholars responds to a public letter from the ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) which strongly condemned the RCUK’s (Research Councils UK) proposed … Continue reading

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Under my skin…

Studying ancient languages seems to be one of the best ways to exercise and strengthen our memories. But sometimes we just seem to hit a wall, for example on the finer points of Denniston’s Greek Particles. At last, the answer … Continue reading

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Three Projects Worthy of Careful Review

The Alexandria Archive Institute works to build an open, Internet-based, knowledge commons of world cultural heritage. “Dedicated organizations, such as the AAI, are needed to continuously keep pace with developments in scholarship, build and maintain collaborations, and provide needed guidance … Continue reading

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Comments on podcasting

There’s a useful post on “Podcasting and Classics” on the Memento Vivere blog (via rogueclassicism).

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Observations on the suit by the Authors’ Guild against Google Print

Lawrence Lessig: Property law since time immemorial had held that your land reached from the ground to the heavens. Then airplanes were invented — a technology oblivious to this ancient law. A couple of farmers sued to enforce their ancient … Continue reading

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