Monthly Archives: May 2006

New Mellon prizes

Posted on 2006-05-17 by scaife

from the CHE: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2006 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, a new contest that will recognize leaders in the field of open-source software. The awards will recognize nonprofit groups that have … Continue reading →

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Pisidian Antioch in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-05-17 by scaife

From The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology comes Building a New Rome: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch, including lots of photographs and models, as well as an overhead view of the 3D restoration of Antioch mapped over the location of … Continue reading →

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New AJAX development tools

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

from the Google blog: AJAX has the power to make your site more compelling and more dynamic, but AJAX development is often complicated, with much of the development time spent working around browser quirks and the fragility of AJAX components. … Continue reading →

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Public education

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

from the Google blog: In my day, we thought calculators were neat 5/16/2006 02:55:00 PM Posted by Aidan Chopra, Program Manager, Education The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an innovative program that equips every one of the state’s public middle-school … Continue reading →

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A new translation of Euripides’ Medea, bearing a CC license

Posted on 2006-05-16 by scaife

Celia Luschnig has produced a new translation of the Medea as part of the Diotima anthology. Special thanks to John T Quinn, Translation Editor for Diotima, for his help. (There’s also a pretty-print PDF version.) This work bears a Creative … Continue reading →

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Speakers at Convocation on Humanities Warn About Privatization of Materials (CHE)

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

(An excerpt from an article by Richard Byrne in the CHE — subscription needed) A joint convocation held by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Association of American Universities to assess the state of the humanities drew over … Continue reading →

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Copyright term and the public domain

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

A handy chart I had not yet seen, from the Cornell Copyright Information Center. Footnote 7 is useful: A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For books, the figure was even … Continue reading →

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Scan this Book!

Posted on 2006-05-15 by scaife

Kevin Kelly, Scan This Book! New York Times, May 14, 2006: For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into … Continue reading →

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Scholarly Research Trends in the Humanities

Posted on 2006-05-12 by scaife

Jordan Ballor has posted part of his talk on “various views of what scholarly publishing in the digital age looks like,” including these bits Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig complain of “the balkanization of the web into privately owned … Continue reading →

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More SketchUp: the Pantheon

Posted on 2006-05-10 by scaife

The Pantheon, situated in Google Earth.

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TEI by Example

Posted on 2006-05-08 by scaife

From the TEI list, announcement by Edward Vanhoutte of a new project to teach TEI markup: At the Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (Belgium) we’re currently working on a … Continue reading →

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Semantic Humanities

Posted on 2006-05-08 by scaife

Whose blog is this?

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More SketchUp: Pharos lighthouse and Roman Curia

Posted on 2006-05-07 by scaife

Here and here, respectively (neither model is geo-located in Google Earth yet).

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Lessig speech: Who Owns Culture?

Posted on 2006-05-05 by scaife

from the CHE: Who Owns Culture? Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University law professor and cyberspace theorist, is well-known for challenging traditional notions of copyright. A 20-minute video of a recent speech given by Mr. Lessig is making the rounds on … Continue reading →

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Open Source Myths

Posted on 2006-05-05 by Tom Elliott

An interesting discussion on Open Source Myth Busting is developing on Sean Gillies’ import cartography blog.

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