ETANA-DL project

Posted on 2006-04-11 by chuckjones

Some of you may find this documentation on the ETANA-DL project (with which  I am marginally connected) interesting.  This DL part of this project is headed by Ed Fox at Virginia Tech.

“This research proposes to develop a digital library (DL) for ancient Near Eastern studies with two archaeological components: DigBase (DB) – a repository and an archive for archaeological data from the Near East and  beyond, and DigKit (DK) – a compatible field tool for collecting and recording archaeological data during archaeological surveys and excavations.  DB is a model-based, extensible, archaeological componentized DL that will  manage complex archaeological information sources based on the client-server  paradigm of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). DK is a compatible field tool for collecting, recording and exposing archaeological data in an OAI compliant manner during archaeological surveys and excavations.”

Links to the following articles are at:
https://feathers.dlib.vt.edu/publications.html
and are indexed by me in Abzu
https://www.etana.org/abzu/

Publications

1.   E. A. Fox. Digital Libraries: Archaeology, Automation, and  Enhancements. Invited talk. The International Advanced Digital Library Conference (IADLC),  Nagoya University, Japan, August 25-26,
2005

2.   R. Shen, M. A. Gonçalves, W. Fan, and E. A. Fox. Requirements  Gathering and Modeling of Domain-Specific Digital Libraries with the 5S Framework: An  Archaeological Case Study with ETANA. In Proceedings ECDL2005, Vienna, Sept. 18-23, 2005

3.   A. Raghavan, N. S. Vemuri, R. Shen, M. A. Gonçalves, W. Fan, and E. A. Fox. Incremental, Semi- automatic, Mapping-Based Integration of Heterogeneous Collections into Archaeological Digital Libraries: Megiddo Case Study. In Proceedings ECDL2005, Vienna, Sept. 18-23, 2005

4.   E. A. Fox, M. A. Gonçalves, and R. Shen. The Role of Digital Libraries  in Moving Toward Knowledge Environments. Invited chapter in “From Integrated Publication and Informations Systems to Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments”,  eds. Matthias Hemmje, Claudia Niederee, and Thomas Risse, Springer, 2005, pp. 96-106

5.   R. Shen, N. S. Vemuri, V. Vijayaraghavan, W. Fan, and E. A. Fox (2005) EtanaViz: A Visual User Interface to Archaeological Digital Libraries.  Technical Report TR-05-14, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

6.   R. Shen, N. S. Vemuri, A. Raghavan, M. A. Gonçalves, D. Rangarajan, W. Fan, and E. A. Fox (2005) Integration of Heterogeneous Digital Libraries  with Semi-automatic Mapping and Browsing: From Formalization to Specification to Visualization.  Technical Report TR-05-04, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

7.   D. Rangarajan (2005) SchemaMapper: A tool for visualization of schema mapping. Technical Report TR-05-09, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

8.   J. W. Flanagan, E. A. Fox, D. R. Clark, W. Fan, Ravindranathan, R.  Shen, M. A. Goncalves. Jordanian Archaeology and ETANA: Developing a Digital Library  for Near Eastern Archaeology. History and Archaeology of Jordan conference, Petra, Jordan,  May 23-27, 2004.

9.   U. Ravindranathan. Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data Sources – An ETANA-DL Case Study. Masters Thesis. Department of  Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, April, 2004.  (also available thru the VT-Electronic Thesis and Dissertations system)

10.   U. Ravindranathan, R. Shen, M. A. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, and J. W. Flanagan. Prototyping Digital Libraries Handling Heterogeneous Data  Sources – The ETANA-DL Case Study. European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), Bath, UK,  September 12-17, 2004.

11.   U. Ravindranathan, R. Shen, M. A. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, and J. W. Flanagan. ETANA-DL: A Digital Library for Integrated Handling of  Heterogeneous Archaeological Data. ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004), Tucson, AZ, June 7-11, 2004.

12.      M. A. Goncalves, E. A. Fox, A. Krowne, P. Calado, A. H. F. Laender,  A. S. da Silva, and B. Ribeiro-Neto. The Effectiveness of Automatically  Structured Queries in Digital Libraries. ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL  2004), Tucson, AZ,  June 7-11, 2004.

13.      R. da S. Torres, C. B. Medeiros, M. A. Goncalves, and E. A. Fox. An OAI-based Digital Library Framework for Biodiversity Information Systems. Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Technical Report No. TR-04-01, 2004.

14.      R. da S. Torres, C. B. Medeiros, M. A. Goncalves, and E. A. Fox. An OAI Compliant Content- Based Image Search Component. Demo at ACM-IEEE Joint  Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004), Tucson, AZ,  June 7-11, 2004.

15.   R. da S. Torres, C. B. Medeiros, Renata Q. Dividino, Mauricio A. Figueiredo, M. A. Goncalves, E. A. Fox, and R. Richardson. Using Digital  Library Components for Biodiversity Systems. Poster at ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004), Tucson, AZ,  June 7-11, 2004.

DEMONSTRATIONS:

1.  A. Raghavan, D. Rangarajan, R. Shen, M. A. Gonçalves, N. S. Vemuri, W.  Fan, and E. A. Fox. Schema Mapper: A Visualization Tool for DL Integration. In  Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2005), June 7-11,  2005, Denver, p. 414

2.  U. Ravindranathan, R. Shen, M. A. Goncalves, W. Fan, E. A. Fox, and J.  W. Flanagan. ETANA-DL: Managing Complex Information Applications â?” An  Archaeology Digital Library. Demo at ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2004), Tucson,  AZ, June 7-11, 2004.

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Nexus network journal

Posted on 2006-04-10 by Gabriel Bodard

New in Humbul:

Nexus (ISSN 1522-4600) is an online journal on architecture and mathematics, which contains a number of research papers on ancient architecture. Architecture, mathematics, perspective, and landscape formation are the most frequently recurring topics. Among the papers of possible interest to archaeologists are: ‘Mathematics, Astronomy, and Sacred Landscape in the Inka Heartland’; ‘The Education of the Classical Architect from Plato to Vitruvius’; ‘The Indefinite Dyad and the Golden Section: Uncovering Plato’s Second Principle’; ‘Philosophy and Science of Music in Ancient Greece: The Predecessors of Pythagoras and their Contribution’; ‘The Arithmetic of Nicomachus of Gerasa and its Applications to Systems of Proportion’; ‘Euclidism and Theory of Architecture’; and ‘How Should We Measure an Ancient Structure?’ The published titles cover classical architecture and its reception during the Italian Renaissance and other modern periods, as well as ancient science and mathematics. There are general papers on architecture and applied optics that may be useful to archaeologists studying ancient art and architecture. The journal also publishes reviews, and a selection of the papers are reprinted in the paper edition of the journal.

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Ancient history podcasts

Posted on 2006-04-09 by scaife

Numerous topics from the ancient world at Military History Podcasts: Alexander the Great, Roman tactics, Pharsalus, Roman defeats, conquests of Cyrus the Great, Persian Wars, Sargon, Hannibal, Valor…

Also: Lars Brownworth’s 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire.

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What they listen to in hell on their ipods

Posted on 2006-04-07 by scaife

Tax Code Podcast
????

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EpiDoc Development Sprint: more

Posted on 2006-04-07 by Tom Elliott

As a follow-up to my previous post detailing the achievements of the first half of an “EpiDoc Development Sprint” in London (20-24 March 2006), I would like to offer the following summary of achievements during the second (and final) two-day sprint (below). Participants are currently gathering up loose ends and completing finishing touches to portions of the work. Further updates, including announcement of the next major release of tools and guidelines, will be made via the Stoa-sponsored Markup List.

Continue reading →

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Etymologies on iPod (CHE)

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

A company called iPREPpress that has already created a line of iPod-ready crib notes for great literary works now hopes to turn students’ MP3 players into veritable reference shelves. The company has joined forces with Merriam-Webster Inc. to release a series of lexicographical volumes for the iPod. Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Dictionary, which goes on sale today, is the logical first choice, but iPREPpress has other titles on the way, including a thesaurus, an atlas, and a rhyming dictionary “for song and hip-hop writers. A dictionary, it turns out, is worth about 15 pop songs: after offering a short-term discount, the company intends to sell the high-tech reference book for $14.95.

More here (though the slant in the CHE article seems oddly negative and out of it).

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JIIA Eprints Repository

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife
Antonella D’Ascoli

informa 

dell’attivazione del JIIA Eprints Repository https://eprints.jiia.it/, Repository collegato al ‘Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology’ https://www.jiia.it, in data 2006-04-04 registrato presso le Autorità competenti, quindi presente nei seguenti elenchi:
Il precedente MyOPIA JIIA Repository (a seguito di alterne e malaugurate vicende) sarà a breve dismesso a tutto favore dell’installazione di Eprints, software molto più performante,  sviluppato e costantemente mantenuto dalla School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.
I documenti precedentemente archiviati nel Myopia andranno a confluire nel nuovo Repository: JIIA Eprints Repository.
In JIIA Eprints Repository:
POST-PRINT
La Prefazione ed alcuni capitoli dal reprint del 2003 di :
D’Arms, John H., Romans on the bay of Naples and other essays on roman Campania. A Social and Cultural Study of the Villas and Their Owners from 150 B.C. to A.D. 400
Cap.1 The first coastal villas The second century B.C.
Cap.2 Coastal Campania during the period of Marius and Sulla
Cap.3 The last years of the Republic
Per gentile concessione di Edipuglia s.r.l
Cordiali saluti
Antonella D’Ascoli
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They’re getting…

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

… desperate!

Ray Cha concludes:

In the end, I agree with Ben’s previous post that the Nature article in question has a marginal relevance to the bigger picture. The main point is that Wikipedia works amazingly well and contains articles that Britannica never will. It is a revolutionary way to collaboratively share knowledge. That we should give consideration to the source of our information we encounter, be it the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Nature or the New York Time, is nothing new.

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

Thanks to Peter Suber for pointing to Kate Corby’s review of Willinsky, John. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

It is unfortunate that many academics feel that assuring access to research is not central to their work. They are engaged in attracting funding, completing research and publishing the results. Finding their publications to build further research proposals is the problem of subsequent researchers…

The almost unbelievably high figures on readership for open access journals attest to the demand for scholarly information, presumably stifled only by accessibility. Willinsky openly admits the utopian quality of the open access movement, but also points out that the current publishing model is unsustainable, both in this print to electronic transition period, and in the wholly electronic period that is surely right around the corner. He makes solid points about alternative models readily available, as for example the fact that book publishers have rarely demanded that authors sign over their copyright. He also ventures into a utopian future by discussing cooperative opportunities for institutions and professional organizations to spend the money they currently spend individually for library subscriptions or journal production in ways that guarantee access to all while maintaining financial viability for scholarly publications.
Perhaps the strongest point this book makes is that openly accessible scholarly information is more valuable that information published in journals with limited access. If citation counts and numbers of readers are indicators of the value of an item, then open access materials freely available on the web are the most valuable information we have. This is not the conventional wisdom of the day, which holds that peer reviewed materials in high prestige journals is our most valuable information. Willinsky does a good job of showing how this model is changing. It is important to appreciate that the internet is democratizing information in ways that have already begun forcing changes in how scholarly information is utilized.

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PhD studentship in Digital Humanities

Posted on 2006-03-31 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities,
King’s College London, is very pleased to
announce the availability of a studentship for
its PhD in Digital Humanities, to commence
October 2006. Applications must be received by 7
April, so almost immediate action is required. If
you know someone who might be interested, please
see that he or she receives a copy of this
message as soon as possible.

Application is a two-stage process, as follows:

1. Candidates must first commence application to
the PhD in Digital Humanities. This may be done
online. See
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/pg/apply.html
for information and the form.

2. They must then apply for the Studentship
itself. See
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/gsstdship.html for information and the form.

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Zeus remembers Cronos

Posted on 2006-03-29 by scaife

from “Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes” —

“Nobody has tried to swallow us since I’ve been here. I think they are afraid of how we would taste.”
— Apple shareholder meeting, April 22, 1998

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Student-Generated Timelines

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

from Academic Commons

Student-Generated Timelines

In Teaching and Technology

Malcolm Brown from Darmouth’s Academic Computing Services polled a list I am on, looking for software to allow students to generate timelines. Owen Ellard from Mt. Holyoke pointed him to the timeline creator, a nifty piece of software developed by the Center for Educational Resources at Johns Hopkins. At Wesleyan, we’ve created some nice timelines using fancy software (see South Asian Diaspora ) but haven’t yet thought through how to go about taking this tool and allowing non-designers use it to make their own timelines. The folks at Berkeley’s Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative point to TimeMap, a more sophisticated (and therefore presumably harder to imagine students using) tool for displaying data with a spatial and temporal component.

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Robot guide for museum visitors

Posted on 2006-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen at Rogueclassicism)

Robot guide for museum visitors

Cicerobot to steer tourists round Agrigento museum (ANSA) – Palermo, March 21

A flaming-red robot will soon be guiding tourists round a Sicilian archaeological collection .

The 1.5-metre-high robot, named Cicerobot by his creators, is kitted out with wheels, a keyboard, a monitor, video camera and sensors, enabling him to steer visitors safely through the rooms of Agrigento’s Regional Archaeological Museum .

“Cicerobot is able to plan out tours in accordance with the needs of individual visitors,” explained Antonio Chella, head of the Palermo University robotics laboratory that invented the mechanism.

(Full story…)

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Ἐποποῖ !

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Rob Dyer’s copiously annotated translation of a remarkable Suda entry (epsilon 2807: epopoi) has now received editorial support from SOL Senior Editor David Whitehead. From the start of the notes:

This delightful collection of shouts and ‘mimic words’ (bird cries and onomatopoeic words: cf. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 11.251 = vol.3.230.12) from the extant plays of Aristophanes, meticulously ordered and unusually well preserved, throws light on e.g. the roles of Procne the nightingale and the kestrel (note 10) in Birds and of the Young Man at the end of Ecclesiazusae (note 27), and on the complex metrical structure of the monodies, duets and choruses of Birds. It was compiled, however, in the context of the grammatical Canons, words classified by analogy into paradigms of form and accentuation. The most important Canons of the time were those of Theognostus, compiled in the 9th. Century.

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Getting Data into Google Earth using Arc2Earth

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Brian Flood has a post on the apparently straightforward task of presenting GIS data through Google Earth.

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