Monthly Archives: February 2006

Google Print Collaborators: ‘Defending the future of books’

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Tom Elliott

Google’s Library Partnerships Director, Laura DeBonis appears on the Official Google Blog to gloss a recent speech by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, defending book digitization as “protecting the written word for all time.” Google blog post: Defending … Continue reading →

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Useful review of OS software today

Posted on 2006-02-09 by scaife

Open-Source Users Break Free From Commercial Software

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Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Boingboing.net this week: Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck David Pescovitz: Last summer, a team researchers dispatched an autonomous undersea robot to explore a Greek merchant ship that sank in the eastern Aegean Sea in the fourth century BC. … Continue reading →

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Keeping up with the Googleses

Posted on 2006-02-08 by scaife

“We already knew that Yahoo! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. More from John Battelle.

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Juxta

Posted on 2006-02-07 by scaife

Patacriticism has just released Juxta 1.0: Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or … Continue reading →

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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae CD Rom reviewed

Posted on 2006-02-06 by Gabriel Bodard

A review at Bryn Mawr Classical Review of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition, published by K. G. Saur. Peter Heslin at Durham has some interesting things to say about the value of this work and of such Greek … Continue reading →

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The future of technology in higher education?

Posted on 2006-02-03 by chuckjones

“The 2006 Horizon Report  is now available. The 2006 edition is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program. The 2006 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions … Continue reading →

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Appropriate venues

Posted on 2006-02-02 by scaife

Peter Suber has done a useful service (again) in writing “Six things that researchers need to know about open access.” What?  Can’t find a journal that meets your needs?  Perhaps Scholarly Exchange can be brought into the picture.

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The Journal of Maps

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Tom Elliott

From the Journal of Maps website: The Journal of Maps [(ISSN 1744-5647)] is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method … Continue reading →

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Fellowship for digital art students

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Linden Lab Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts For Creative Innovation in the Online World of Second Life This fellowship is made possible by Linden Lab®, the creators of Second Life®, to provide a young artist with a chance … Continue reading →

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Pleiades project seeks software applications analyst

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

I am happy to announce that a 2-year Software Application Analyst position for the Pleiades project is now open for application. We will carefully evaluate all applications received (online, see below) by the deadline of 13 February 2006 with a … Continue reading →

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Gentium Unicode font featured on newsforge

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

My post this morning to classics-l about Bruce Byfield’s newsforge article (Gentium: An award-winning font joins the free software world ) has sparked an interesting and informative discussion. Gist@newsforge: Gentium’s creator, Victor Gaultney, has re-released the useful and attractive font … Continue reading →

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