Monthly Archives: January 2007

PDF Specification released to AIIM/ISO

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen (via Slashdot) in Technoracle: Adobe announced it will release the entire PDF specification (current version 1.7) to the International Standards Organization (ISO) via AIIM. PDF has reached a point in it’s maturity cycle where maintaining it in an open … Continue reading →

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100 Alternative Search Engines

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Read/Write Web (by Charles S. Knight): Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.” Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use … Continue reading →

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Online “Middle English Compendium”

Posted on 2007-01-31 by smahony

See on Humanist posted by Paul Schaffner | PFSchaffner@umich.edu The University of Michigan announces that under new arrangements worked out between the University Press and the University Library, all components of the online “Middle English Compendium,” including the online version … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Bibliography

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has been hacking on his Readings in Digital History list to see what he can see. He visualizes and discusses the signatures of monads, dyads, clusters of “classics,” bridges and the subclusters they link to, and bestsellers.

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Humanities Computing Links from TAPoR

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Geoffrey Rockwell has put up a collection of tagged links to online works about humanities computing. It’s a good complement to Bill Turkel’s Readings in Digital History. And, best of all, it’s TAPoRized, so you can search the collection and … Continue reading →

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Google maps and millions of books

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

It was only a matter of time: Google has added overview maps for full-view books in Google Book Search. Even though Google is not the first organization to employ geoparsing technologies and autogenerated maps in the interface to a digital … Continue reading →

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“For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia”

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

What’s all this fuss about? The Middlebury College History Department’s so-called Stand Against Wikipedia is just an implementation of the seven-month-old advice of Wikipedia’s own founder.

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ANNOUNCING: TWO E-LEARNING CONFERENCES, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Posted on 2007-01-23 by smahony

Seen in Humanist: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:46:56 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: e-Learning events at Oxford ANNOUNCING: TWO E-LEARNING CONFERENCES, OXFORD UNIVERSITY 22nd and 23rd March Said Business School The Shock of the Old 6: The Shock of … Continue reading →

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Second Life experient in social copyright

Posted on 2007-01-21 by Gabriel Bodard

I spotted this several weeks ago in Wired magazine, but have only just gotten around to taking it in fully. The scenario: Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue [ed. note: modified from Open Source] software … Continue reading →

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8 things about e-books

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Tom Elliott

Charlie Lowe just blogged about the Educause Learning Initiative‘s helpful introductory 2-pager entitled 7 Things You Should Know About E-books. It’s a decent tool for introducing colleagues to some of the key issues surrounding, and potential benefits involved in, electronic … Continue reading →

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Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

Posted on 2007-01-18 by smahony

Seen in Humanist: **Conference Announcement** Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Meeting of the UK Chapter: January 24th – 26th 2007 Tudor Merchants Hall, Southampton The CAA UK chapter is intended as a forum for research in the area … Continue reading →

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Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

Posted on 2007-01-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons feed, an article in the British Medical Journal by John Wilbanks, executive director of the Science Commons, on why scientific research needs to be Open Access (and his arguments apply to all academic research, of … Continue reading →

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Mellon Post-Doc at Tufts

Posted on 2007-01-16 by Gabriel Bodard

See on the Tufts website (see full ad). This might be an appropriate post for a digital classicist to apply for; interested candidates are encouraged to contact Gregory Crane (gregory.crane@tufts.edu) as soon as possible. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has … Continue reading →

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What’s all this about furr-burr?

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Tom Elliott

Greg Crane wants me to think about Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Steven MacCall’s lecture slides on Historical Overview of Information Organization, AKA The ‘From Tablets to FRBR’ Lecture (requires Flash) seem like a good place to get started. … Continue reading →

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Readings in Digital History

Posted on 2007-01-15 by Tom Elliott

By way of Dan Cohen’s blog, I discovered Bill Turkel’s list of nearly 100 books relevant to digital history. The meme is a comps reading list for an imaginary digital history sub-field. I was psyched to see geographic history and … Continue reading →

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