Monthly Archives: August 2007

Virtual London shelved as OS refuse to license data to Google

Posted on 2007-08-29 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in last week’s New Scientist: A 3D software model of London containing over 3 million buildings in photorealistic detail is now unlikely to reach the public because of a dispute between a UK government agency and Google. The full … Continue reading →

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2nd Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Posted on 2007-08-25 by hughcayless

From Martin Mueller at Northwestern (full disclosure: I’ll be a speaker): The program for the Second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science has now been set, and you can see it at http://dhcs.northwestern.edu/index.html. The Colloquium will take place … Continue reading →

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outsourcing

Posted on 2007-08-24 by scaife

Why I gave up on my university’s email years ago: Along with the neat-o peripheral gizmos like messaging, calendars, and collaboration tools, the outsourced systems are more stable, have better spam filters, and provide much more storage space than the … Continue reading →

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Sounds familiar!

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Scott Jaschik, Publishing and Values, Inside Higher Ed, August 22, 2007: A number of outside observers believe that the tensions visible in anthropology this week are challenging other disciplines, too. “At the most fundamental level, we’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

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The Metrics of Social Scholarship

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

from Laura Cohen’s Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective: I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Jensen’s piece, The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority, published in The Chronicle on June 15. This is one of the best articles I’ve read about metrics that can … Continue reading →

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Keyboard shortcuts

Posted on 2007-08-22 by scaife

From liquidicity, keyboard shortcuts for about every character key available on a Mac.

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E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-08-22 by smahony

See and forwarded from Classicists mailing list ————————————————– UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS Sub-Faculty of Ancient History E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts … Continue reading →

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Moving toward greater usefulness…

Posted on 2007-08-20 by scaife

from Inside Google Book Search: Today we launched a new feature for Book Search to help more people access the world’s great public domain works. Whenever you find an out-of-copyright book in our index, you’ll see a “View plain text” … Continue reading →

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Who edits Wikipedia?

Posted on 2007-08-18 by Gabriel Bodard

A very interesting site has been doing the rounds of news and blogs lately, which allows users to trace anonymous edits of Wikipedia articles by comparing to the public record of registered IP addresses. The WikiScanner is itself neutral as … Continue reading →

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More on openness and Google Books

Posted on 2007-08-17 by scaife

As a follow-up to Dan Cohen/s post yesterday in which he lamented the lack of an API to Google’s book digitization efforts, there’s further discussion today, in the form of an interview of Brewster Kahle by Andrew Richard Albanese, Scan … Continue reading →

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Learn a foreign language on the cheap

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

from Lifehacker: The No Thick Manuals wiki details how to learn a language efficiently using two free, open source applications. The first is jVLT (java Vocabulary Learning Tool), a completely cross platform flash card application. The second is StarDict, a … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 2

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

In “Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes?,” Dan Cohen provides some of his usual thoughtful and well-stated correctives to the latest anti-Google jeremiad making the rounds, Paul Duguid’s “Inheritance and loss? A brief survey of Google Books.” Complaining about the … Continue reading →

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Not to be missed: 1

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

I hadn’t realized until just now that Melissa Terras is writing in her own blog, but its very good to know. I’ve added her to the blogroll on the right under Digital Studies.

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Session on Digital Reconstruction at Villa of the Papyri conference

Posted on 2007-08-11 by Gabriel Bodard

(Thanks to Lizzie Belcher, Classics outreach officer at Oxford for drawing my attention to this.) A Conference on The Villa of the Papyri Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 September, 2007 Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and Christ Church, … Continue reading →

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Open access and convenience

Posted on 2007-08-08 by scaife

This CHE piece caught my eye, esp. one of the suggestions made as to why people may not be using library-adminstered electronic resources so much: The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning — … Continue reading →

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