Monthly Archives: October 2005

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum

Perhaps it just snuck by me, but I have no recollection of an announcement of the availability online of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. It seems that all of the out-of -print volumes of the CVA (a couple of hundred volumes?!?) … Continue reading

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archaeocommons?

Appearing to be mostly a set of screen shots, Archaeocommons seems nevertheless to be an interesting emerging entity. This organization is one of the ventúres of Eric Kansa, who has written an interesting paper on“Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Expanding Access … Continue reading

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Google vs. the World

From his piece “Books of Revelation” in The Wall Street Journal, October 18, 2005, reproduced at googleblog: …Imagine the cultural impact of putting tens of millions of previously inaccessible volumes into one vast index, every word of which is searchable … Continue reading

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World Wide Greek

Learning Ancient Greek is the interactive, online complement to Cecelia Luschnig’s An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach. An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach is a traditional beginner’s text, written in a conversational tone, as though between … Continue reading

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Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication

Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication “…The purpose of this organization shall be to unite all persons interested in the intersection between classical studies, libraries, and scholarly communication, in order to promote timely exchange of information and ideas and … Continue reading

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Kevin Drum on Google vs. the World

If it were up to me, I’d vote with the public interest. I sometimes feel that if the increasingly expansive view of copyright asserted today had been around a couple of centuries ago, the Supreme Court would have ruled that … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities Quarterly

Call for Submissions Digital Humanities Quarterly Submissions are invited for Digital Humanities Quarterly, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Submissions may be mailed to submissions@digitalhumanities.org. … Continue reading

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PHI Online

We have just spotted the Packard Humanities Institute Greek Inscriptions database online version. http://erga.packhum.org/inscriptions/ I have been unable to learn if this is (a) a permanent fixture, or in particular (b) a permanent URL. The site has a good index … Continue reading

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“Descriptive Metadata for Copyright Status”

An interesting article in First Monday proposes that a set of descriptive data elements could accompany digital materials to inform potential users of the copyright status of the item. It concludes: “Adding descriptive data elements for copyright status to the … Continue reading

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Thoughts on New Standards

(Seen in Slashdot) A discussion over on IBM Developer Works on the adoption of new standards before they are established standards. Some useful discussion of the pitfalls as well as the advantages of such practices, that we might take into … Continue reading

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VR Athens Agora

(Seen on Rogueclassicism; from AME) The Foundation for the Hellenic World will be launching a large immersive VR of the ancient Athenian Agora as part of the Hellenic Cosmos site, using the Silicon Graphics Prism tool from SGI. This is … Continue reading

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Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation

The main theme of the event is an open discussion of the theory and application of digital technologies to exhibit, preserve, maintain and develop our cultural heritage. We have a range of interesting talks bringing together some of the leading … Continue reading

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Subversion client

Just found a quick way to get a Subversion client going on a Mac that hasn’t got Fink on it, here at Metissian.com. (Also here.) Click to install the package, check /etc/profile to be sure /usr/local/bin is in the path, … Continue reading

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D-Lib

Juicy stuff in D-Lib this month: Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog David Mimno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora … Continue reading

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BB devours WebCT

Bryan Alexander observes that “BB is the new Microsoft” for the CMS field. Moodle, anyone?

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