Monthly Archives: November 2006

Open Access Pantheon

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

From Neel Smith comes word of The Pantheon Project – The Pilot Project of the Karman Center. Definitely worth a look, with very nice OA policies covering the core project data: … many questions remain concerning the design, construction, statics, … Continue reading →

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UK is on board — how about your institution?

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from Open Access News: Another provost for FRPAA Kumble Subbaswamy, Provost of the University of Kentucky, has added his signature to the SPARC list of U.S. university presidents and provosts endorsing open access to publicly-funded research and the Federal Research … Continue reading →

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A Directory of Academic Blogs, Wiki Style

Posted on 2006-11-28 by scaife

from the CHE: How many academic blogs are there? Too many for any one person to keep track of. The popular academic blog Crooked Timber has long maintained a lengthy list of academic blogs. The list had been maintained in … Continue reading →

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2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists

Posted on 2006-11-22 by ioannisg

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Description: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Now in its fourth year, the fellowship provides new … Continue reading →

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Pot, meet kettle

Posted on 2006-11-20 by scaife

This one is pretty rich fare! How many times have we all read ludicrously over-reaching claims of copyright protection for books and electronic resources? And these people want to point fingers at the faculty for not understanding the law? For … Continue reading →

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ePhilology: when the books talk to their readers

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

Curious about where classics might go in a digital world? See the preprint of a new article about ePhilology (by Gregory Crane, David Bamman, and Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University) that will appear in The Blackwell … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by Gabriel Bodard

After the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, a group met at the University of Chicago as a part of a Mellon-funded project, centered at Tufts University, to explore the question, “What do you do with a million … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

A Mellon-funded working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (dhcs.uchicago.edu) has now issued a position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library. The goal is to consider how the future of … Continue reading →

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Teaching and learning scenarios for Google Earth

Posted on 2006-11-14 by scaife

EduCause has a two-pager, and Google has its own page for educators.

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Open source withstands antitrust scrutiny

Posted on 2006-11-10 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot today: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an opinion in which Judge Easterbrook declares, “[t]he GPL and open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws.” The case is called Wallace v. … Continue reading →

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CHE on historical visualizations

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

With Digital Maps, Historians Chart a New Way Into the Past: A push to make historical data more visual could yield a better understanding of events

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OED changes with the times

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

Worthwhile piece in the NYT on the OED today. An excerpt: The job of a new-words editor felt very different precyberspace, Paton says: “New words weren’t proliferating at quite the rate they have done in the last 10 years. Not … Continue reading →

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Carthage in Wikipedia

Posted on 2006-11-07 by scaife

Amusing blog entry involving Carthage at Infocult, Wikipedia delenda est.

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Firefox extension for humanities scholars

Posted on 2006-11-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Has anyone tried using this? Is it actually useful?

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Audio Files: History and Archaeology Expert Seminar

Posted on 2006-11-01 by Gabriel Bodard

Audio files from the Methods Network Expert Seminar ‘Virtual History and Archaeology’, held at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 19-21 April 2006, are now available. The following audio files are currently available. ‘Using GIS to Study Long-Term Population … Continue reading →

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