“The original of this replica is now in the Berlin Museum.”

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

Large 3D printer required.

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SketchUp plus GoogleEarth for modeling of buildings from Olynthus, Pompeii, the Acropolis…

Posted on 2006-04-28 by scaife

Idea for a new collaborative project: we need to be able to zoom in with GoogleEarth to various archaeological sites and see a collection of 3D study models sitting in place there.

Here’s a short video showing Google SketchUp, the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth in action.
From the WaPo:

SketchUp is linked with Google Earth, the satellite mapping tool that allows a user to surf and zoom into locations around the globe. Using the two tools in tandem, a user can, for example, create a rendition of major landmarks such as the leaning tower of Pisa and share that image with anyone who might be interested in checking out models other users have created for that location.

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EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

There’s a new home on SourceForge for Epidoc, and the Epidoc guidelines themselves are available here on the Stoa server.

Principles:

Five important principles have governed the elaboration of EpiDoc techniques and tools from the beginning:

  • EpiDoc and its tools should be open and available to the widest possible range of individuals and groups; therefore, all documents and software produced by the EpiDoc Community are released under the GNU Public License
  • Insofar as possible, EpiDoc should be compliant or compatible with other published standards: we should strive to avoid re-inventing wheels or creating data silos
  • Insofar as possible, EpiDoc projects should work collaboratively and supportively with other digital epigraphy initiatives, especially those sanctioned by the Association Internationale d’ Épigraphie Grecque et Latine
  • In the arena of transcription, EpiDoc must facilitate the encoding of all editorial observations and distinctions signaled in traditional print editions through the use of sigla and typographic indicia
  • We avoid encoding the appearance of these sigla and indicia; rather, we encode the character (or semantics) of the distinction or observation the human editor is making. The rendering of typographic representations of these distinctions are accomplished using XSLTs or other methods.
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The very last thing we need?

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

Lovely.

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The Geography of Artemidoros

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

Dorothy King has a blog entry on the rediscovery of this Geography on papyrus, otherwise known from quotations in Strabo.

Related podcasts:  New Technology Unlocks Ancient Texts, and The Greatest Hits of Ancient Garbage.

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Rome Total War

Posted on 2006-04-21 by scaife

Patrick Porter of Oxblog likes it:

Desperate to invade Egypt, my faction of the Brutii kept getting its navy sunk. I couldn’t transport my battle-hungry legions from Crete to North Africa. So I had to build a bigger navy. Which I couldn’t do as quickly as the seaborne predators of Pontus, Thrace and indeed Egypt. So I had to get the Pontic and Thracian folk to make peace. But they refused, underestimating the demonic will to power of my faction. So I had to batter the Pontic and Thracian powers into accepting a ceasefire, so I could build a navy, so I could invade Egypt. Then a freak storm sunk half my navy including a senior faction heavy. Peace in the Mediterranean lake was never guaranteed then, of course.

Meanwhile, a whole province went into chaos when my client king was assassinated by a Thracian agent. All of this is designed to culminate in a civil war at the end of the game, between the different Roman factions. As in life, several interlocking random and/or systemic developments can ruin your whole day.

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Gospel of Judas Megapost

Posted on 2006-04-20 by scaife

Mark Goodacre has a Gospel of Judas megapost that ought to offer enough for even the most avid followers of this topic.

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Creative Commons in Second Life

Posted on 2006-04-19 by Gabriel Bodard

As seen in the CC-blog:

Mia Garlick, Creative Commons’ General Counsel, goes in-world in Second Life to discuss copyright issues and the “Some Rights Reserved” licensing perspective this Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 6 PM PST. The event takes place at the new Creative Commons land on Kula Island.

As previously noted here and by previous CC Salon presenter Wagner James Au’s “Creating the Commons” post, Creative Commons now has a presence in Second Life.

Teleport to our new land, come for Mia’s presentation and keep tabs on this growing virtual presence by joining our Second Life community.

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Musematic

Posted on 2006-04-18 by chuckjones

Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM’s Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade.

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Pre-1975 European scholarship = fair game?

Posted on 2006-04-17 by scaife

The 1993 EU Copyright law is here.

Article 5 appears to be crucial:

Critical and scientific publications
Member States may protect critical and scientific publications of works which have come into the public domain. The maximum term of protection of such rights shall be 30 years from the time when the publication was first lawfully published.

Also of interest: “How long does copyright last?” in the document entitled Ownership and duration of copyright published by the UK Patent Office:

… published editions are protected for 25 years.

Comments?

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European Journal of Archaeology blog

Posted on 2006-04-17 by ioannisg

The European Journal of Archaeology (an official publication of the European Association of Archaeologists) has recently acquired its own weblog available at https://eja.e-a-a.org/

The blog offers among other things new book reviews available in the EJA, news and call for papers related to the Annual Meetings of the EAA and so forth.

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The Wealth of Networks

Posted on 2006-04-15 by scaife

Lawrence Lessig:

You are not serious about these issues — on either side of these debates — unless you have read this book.

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-14 by scaife

from the BOAI list:

John Willinsky’s (2005) excellent book on Open Access is now available Open Access:

Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press

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AHRC ICT Methods Network Call for proposals

Posted on 2006-04-13 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for Proposals

The Methods Network invites member of the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the U.K. to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, postgraduate training events, publications, and other activities.

Workshops

Workshops are envisaged as training sessions for community members within academic institutions. They are directed at community members who will then themselves train others. Workshops are intended to provide training in advanced methods and will also engage with issues such as formal methods in analysis of source data and the creation of technical models, working with multiple technologies, and other matters of vital practical interest to the community. Funds available up to £5000.

Seminars

Seminars are envisaged as discussion sessions. They may concentrate on highly-defined topics of interest to the community or may have a more general focus. Identifying problem areas in the advanced uses of ICT in the arts and humanities is also encouraged.

The Methods Network is keen to support both single and cross-disciplinary proposals and those which encourage new collaborative frameworks between technical specialists and arts and humanities scholars. The primary emphasis is on the use and reuse of digital resources. Potential themes could include ways in which collaborative practice might advance scholarly achievement, or issues around employing multiple technologies and approaches to their application. Funds available up to £2000.

Other activities

If you have a proposal for an alternative activity or for a publication that could be supported as a Methods Network Activity, we would be pleased to consider this.

Support Materials and Other Documentation

Support materials will be provided as required by the Methods Network. Service Level Agreements will be negotiated between the Methods Network and successful applicants and will incorporate agreed deadlines, deliverables and budgets. Evaluation plans or peer review guidelines for the activity will be agreed as required between the applicant and the Methods Network.

Any activity undertaken on behalf of the Methods Network will be subject to the conditions outlined in these documents. For further information please contact Hazel Gardiner.

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11th International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies” – call for papers

Posted on 2006-04-13 by chuckjones

Cultural Heritage and New Technologies
(Workshop 11 „Archäologie und Computer“)
Oktober 18th– 20th, 2006
City Hall of Vienna, Austria– Wappensaalgruppe

Why document and analyse Cultural Heritage with modern technologies?

with Symposia:

“Cultural Heritage- Funding and New Technologies” (in cooperation with ARGE Donauländer Niederösterreich)

“Bedeutung, Gefährdung und Schutz von kirchlichen Kulturgütern” (in Kooperation mit der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kulturgüterschutz, sowie kirchlichen Institutionen)

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Call for papers
Submission Of Abstracts
Participants intending to present a talk are requested to submit an abstract electronically by using of mailto:kongrarchae@m07.magwien.gv.at by May 22, 2006 (Deadline)

The abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific committee!
Notification of Speakers: June 5, 2006

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Dear colleagues,

for some of you the Easter holidays will start soon, a couple of you will celebrate Eastern one week later, some of you will have in the next days Passah or a couple of you will have some other holidays. I am very sorry that I am not able to listen all the holidays, which will be in the next days.

Maybe you will find an hour or more in these days to think about the possibility of a lecture at the 11th International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies”. We are waiting for your abstract.

All the topics are online now

You are planing a project in the near future? You are searching for partners? For the first time we will organise a session called “Project-Exchange”. There you can present your project and find partners. If you are interested please send us a short statement about your project (200-300 words) and we will put it on our homepage immediatly – “autonomous” from the “Call for papers”.

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The Urban Archaeology of Vienna like to send you the best wishes and we hope that we can welcome the most of you – as speakers, with a poster, with a project, exhibitors or as participants.

Please forward this email also to interested colleagues.

See you in Vienna

Wolfgang Börner

Magistrat der Stadt Wien
Magistratsabteilung 7 – Kultur
Referat “Kulturelles Erbe” – Stadtarchäologie
Friedrich-Schmidt-Platz 5/1, A-1080 Wien
Tel. 0043 (0)1 4000 81176
Fax: 0043 (0)1 4000 99 81177
mailto:kongrarchae@m07.magwien.gv.at
https://www.stadtarchaeologie.at

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