Monthly Archives: April 2007

Propylaeum-DOK

An interesting new project at Heidelberg: “Propylaeum-DOK, der Volltextserver der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaft, Propylaeum wird von der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg bereitgestellt. Die Publikationsplattform bietet Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern weltweit die Möglichkeit, ihre Veröffentlichungen aus allen Fachbereichen der Altertumswissenschaften kostenlos und in elektronischer … Continue reading

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Analytical Bibliography in WorldCat

Lorcan Dempsey has noticed that OCLC has started surfacing article-level references from various FirstSearch databases in response to WorldCat queries that would only have returned book-level results in the past.

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International Network of Digital Humanities Centers

Making the rounds on various lists this morning is a call for participation in “an international network of digital humanities centers.” Julia Flanders et al. write: If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities center, anywhere in … Continue reading

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Announcing TAPoR version 1.0

Seen on Humanist: Announcing TAPoR version 1.0 http://portal.tapor.ca We have just updated the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) to version 1.0 and invite you to try it out. The new version will not appear that different from previous versions. … Continue reading

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Digital preservation of Pompeii

From the ANCIEN-L list (via Thoughts on Antiquity): Friends and colleagues: The ruins of Pompeii are crumbling, but the digital imaging project known as CyArk is generating a three-dimensional record of the site that will be available for future generations. … Continue reading

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New galleries at the Met

Nice panoramic images of the new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here. Also of interest: “Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor Announce Pioneering Initiative to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge“

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Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics

Noted by way of the Blegen Library News blog (but not seen yet) in the latest edition of Hesperia: J. Ober, et al., “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics,” Hesperia 76.1 (Jan-Mar 2007), 229ff., … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities Summit Wrap-up

Dan Cohen has posted an extensive summary of the recent summit of U.S.-based digital humanities centers and funding bodies organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Essential reading for those who want to stay current in this area.

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Computers in Papyrology and Paleography

A message from Professor Roger Boyle [roger@comp.leeds.ac.uk], Head of the School of Computing, University of Leeds. Dear all – I have been asked by the British Machine Vision Association to consider running a day on “Computers in Papyrology and Paleography” … Continue reading

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CFP: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

from Martin Mueller: The second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. The event is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of … Continue reading

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3D Visualisation in the Arts student award

From the ICT Methods Network blog: The JISC 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA) invites submissions to the 3DViSA Student Award 2007. The award will be for an essay on an innovative application of 3D computer graphics to any … Continue reading

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Virtual Congress on Textual Editing

Forwarded from Humanist: The second virtual congress of [the Romance Literature Department, University of Lisbon] on Textual Editing, begins next Monday, 16th of April. Soon, you will be able to know the announced lectures and papers , as well as … Continue reading

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Pulitzer Prizes need updated categories

Winners of the 2007 Pulitzer Prizes in various categories were announced yesterday.  Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a prize for a blogger.  If there had been, I can’t imagine a more deserving recipient than K.C. Johnson, for bravely staring down the … Continue reading

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First issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly

The first issue of this new open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal is now out. Have a look. The following text is copied from the Digital Classicist mailing list: We are very pleased to announce the first issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly … Continue reading

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Open Source OCR

Seen in Slashdot and Google Code updates: Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will ‘advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.’ OCRopus will be available under the Apache … Continue reading

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