Monthly Archives: December 2005

Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics

Posted on 2005-12-28 by Gabriel Bodard

http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/ Quoted from the site: Publisher: Department of Classics, Princeton University The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the Classics Department of Stanford University. Its purpose is to make … Continue reading →

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BMCR calls for reviewers of electronic publication projects

Posted on 2005-12-22 by scaife

BMCR editors Richard Hamilton and James J. O’Donnell reflect on the paucity of reviews of electronic publications, in BMCR and elsewhere: … we have not sustained a community of practice around serious reviews of web-based publications. This is a concern … Continue reading →

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e-Science Demonstrator Projects

Posted on 2005-12-21 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen on the Methods Network RSS) The E-Science Core Programme, in association with the AHRC, wishes to announce a Call for Proposals for E-Science Demonstrator Projects in the Arts and Humanities. Proposals must be received by EPSRC by midday on … Continue reading →

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Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

The draft report of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences is now available for public comment. Core recommendations: We need to nurture and validate digital scholarship and digitally literate scholars. We need … Continue reading →

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Folksonomies

Posted on 2005-12-20 by scaife

Is user-based tagging “an idiotic idea whose time has apparently come,” as Roy Tennant puts it in Current Cites?

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Preprint repository for two university classics departments

Posted on 2005-12-19 by scaife

from Peter Suber: Princeton and Stanford have launched Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, an OA preprint repository. However, deposits are limited to faculty from the two universities and there’s no sign that it’s OAI-compliant. (Thanks to Josiah Ober via LibLicense.) … Continue reading →

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AIA Computer Special Interest Group meeting in Montreal

Posted on 2005-12-19 by chuckjones

A communication received today: From: John Wallrodt Date: December 17, 2005 11:12:53 PM EST Subject: CSIG Meeting at Montreal All, It is time once again to wake the slumbering AIA Computer Special Interest Group. I apologize for the silence on … Continue reading →

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Good news ahead in the world of GIS

Posted on 2005-12-14 by scaife

Via Peter Suber, a report by Declan Butler on the intricacies of Getting GIS data into Google Earth that concludes: …So the new year looks guaranteed to be a rich period for new GIS and visualization tools. One result, no … Continue reading →

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Academic Commons Second Edition

Posted on 2005-12-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Academic Commons have launched their December 2005 edition (see table of contents at http://www.academiccommons.org/december2005) In addition to new articles and topics, this edition includes showcases of both Digital Classicist and ALA 2004. This seems a useful site: I’d encourage others … Continue reading →

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Text movies for two neo-Latin colloquia

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Dot Porter, Program Coordinator for RCH at UK, has assembled QuickTime movies for certain colloquia (text and audio combined via SMIL files): Erasmus: Abbatis et Eruditae Erasmus: Echo Technically I suppose these aren’t really text movies as Apple defines them, … Continue reading →

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Pim Allison: Roman forts not male-only

Posted on 2005-12-13 by scaife

Pim Allison, whose Open Access site on Pompeian Households is hosted here at the Stoa, is in the news: In a unique study, Allison has been analysing patterns of objects found throughout the [Roman] forts that support the presence of … Continue reading →

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New uses for RSS feeds

Posted on 2005-12-08 by scaife

Soon, there may be even more places where you can keep up-to-the-minute on the latest neo-Latin podcasts available.

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Public Scholarship and its evaluation

Posted on 2005-12-04 by scaife

Inside Higher Ed reports formation of a group “that will develop new ways to evaluate faculty members in the arts and humanities.” “What we are going to do is come up with creative ways to evaluate excellence in public scholarship, … Continue reading →

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Latin podcasting update

Posted on 2005-12-03 by scaife

OK, so after getting some advice from people at UK more experienced with audio recording, we’ve upgraded the equipment we use for our Latin podcasting to Behringer Eurorack UB 1202 shielded cable for mixer to audio-in on the computer 2 … Continue reading →

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Mysteries at Eleusis visual image collection

Posted on 2005-12-02 by scaife

Fiona C. Patrick (Project Coordinator, Digital Consulting & Production Services) sends word of the following: Cornell University Library is pleased to announce the availability of “Mysteries at Eleusis: Images of Inscriptions,” a digital collection of approximately 800 images from the … Continue reading →

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