The Stoa: a Review for Digital Classics

from the Scout Report today:

14. The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases [Macromedia Flash Player]
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/colors_clay/homepage.html

This web exhibition from The Getty takes you on a gently guided tour of the various ways in which Athenian vase painters decorated clay vessels between 550 and 340 B.C. Eight styles and techniques are explored: Bilingual, Coral Red, Six’s Technique, Added Clay and Gilding, Outline Drawing, White Ground, Plastic, and Kerch Style. Zoomable images of artifacts, textual captions, and, in a few cases, audio curators’ commentary are used at the site to explain the eight techniques. Learn, for example, that the Bilingual style is called that because pieces have red-figure painting on one side, and black-figure painting on the other, hence they are bilingual. Coral Red was only used for a short time, and by only a few workshops, but this type of piece was prized since the color was enhanced by wine. [DS]

from Humanist:

A new issue of Human IT is now available on the Web at https://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/

This issue’s theme is Dynamic maps, and it is guest edited by Patrik Svensson.

Digital maps offer exciting new possibilities for humanities and social sciences research. The contributions in this issue provide several good examples of how maps and visualisations can be used both to support research and to provide interesting results and end-products, useful to people within as well as outside of the academic world. The articles present new approaches to interfaces to geographical and social information, methods for linking spatial and temporal data, and a presentation of an artistic project involving political maps.

Contents:

* Zachary Devereaux & Stan Ruecker, “Online Issue Mapping of International News and Information Design.” [Refereed section]
* William E. Cartwright, “Exploring Games and Gameplay as a Means of Accessing and Using Geographical Information.” [Open section]
* Martyn Jessop, “Dynamic Maps in Humanities Computing.” [Open section]
* Jeannette L Zerneke, Michael K. Buckland & Kim Carl, “Temporally Dynamic Maps: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience.” [Open section]
* Jan Svenungsson, “Controlled Production of Virtual Geo-political Reality through Failure.” [People & Opinions]

from Current Cites:

Breeding, Marshall. Web Services and the Service-Oriented Architecture Chicago, IL: ALA TechSource, 2006. – The advent of XML and protocols such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) which uses it are transforming the way our computer systems work. Rather than being self-contained “silo” systems, our computer applications increasingly interact with other applications. This “service-oriented architecture” offers new opportunities to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Breeding’s LTR on the topic thus comes at good time, when we all should know more about Web Services and what it has to offer our organizations. Thankfully, ALA nabbed someone with impeccable credentials and the ability to explain complex topics simply and clearly. Breeding uses the well-known Amazon and Google Web services as examples, even including code listings (a minor quibble is that the code should be downloadable from somewhere, for those that want to try this out). At the end of this 49-page publication is a summary of library automation vendor support for Web services within their applications. From this survey it is clear that Web services is not in your future — it is here now. If you feel behind it is because you are, and this fine LTR is just what the doctored ordered as your cure. – RT