Monthly Archives: August 2006

Know it all!

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

The New Yorker has a worthwhile piece by Stacy Schiff on Wikipedia, full of interesting factoids and historical context. There are Aspergian Wikipedians (seventy-two), bipolar Wikipedians, vegetarian Wikipedians, antivegetarian Wikipedians, existential Wikipedians, pro-Luxembourg Wikipedians, and Wikipedians who don’t like to … Continue reading →

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if:book

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

Via Scribblings and Musings, word of an interesting new blog, if:book, sponsored by the Inbstitute for the Future of the Book.  One of the entries in the if:book blog references a chapter Clifford Lynch has written entitled, “Open Computation: Beyond … Continue reading →

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Photos of Atiz Bookdrive DIY

Posted on 2006-08-15 by scaife

I see new pictures of the Bookdrive DIY at the Atiz website since last time I looked. And speaking of book-scanning, there’s this from Peter Suber: Bob Thompson, Search Me? Washington Post, August 13, 2006. One of the longest and … Continue reading →

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The Classical Association Annual Conference 2007

Posted on 2006-08-11 by smahony

The website for the 2007 Classical Association Conference can be found at: http://www.ca2007.bham.ac.uk/index.htm This is being held at Birmingham (England)  12 – 15 April 2007. If you look at the Call for Papers you’ll see that one of the categories … Continue reading →

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xcavator — image search and sort

Posted on 2006-08-09 by scaife

from John Battelle’s SearchBlog: xcavator is a new and exciting technology for searching and sorting images. With all the control granted to you, it makes image searching easy and specific. It’s very much like text-based searching in Google or Yahoo! … Continue reading →

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Google maps for timelines

Posted on 2006-08-09 by juangarces

From Semantic Humanities: Simile at MIT have recently come up with a timeline widget api – google maps for timelines. It lets you plot events and time ranges (taken from either XML or JSON) onto timelines, and it’s all pretty … Continue reading →

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Good question!

Posted on 2006-08-08 by scaife

What’s wrong with this picture? By Peter Suber The UK National Archives has digitized The Domesday Book, “the earliest surviving public record” in British history.The book is in the public domain and the digitization was done at public expense, but … Continue reading →

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DAI Archaeological Bibliography goes OA

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

Sayonara, Dyabola: We would like to inform you that the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) compiles the four most important Bibliographies on archaeology: Archaeological Bibliography (Realkatalog) Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula Subject catalogue of the Roman-German Commission Bibliography … Continue reading →

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Network links for showing geotagged photos in Google Earth

Posted on 2006-08-03 by scaife

I think it would be interesting for an ASCSA regular member to use this techique with photographs taken during the fall and winter trips.

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Creating ebooks with open source tools

Posted on 2006-08-02 by scaife

The TeleRead blog points to what looks like a useful Newsforge article about the the Sunrise desktop conversion tool and the Plucker reader.

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Intute

Posted on 2006-08-01 by scaife

from the mailbag: Dear Prof. Scaife, I forward to you as editor of the Stoa Consortium the announcement of the launch of Intute, a free online service that may be of interest to the readers of the Stoa.org blog. Intute … Continue reading →

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