Guide to Podcast Directories

Posted on 2006-02-14 by scaife

MediaShift offers a guided tour through the various major podcast directories.

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DRM and academic publishing (GROKLAW)

Posted on 2006-02-14 by scaife

Roy Bixler, Digital Copyright Issues in Academic Publishing

Bruce Barton, The tension between DRM and academic publishing

(hat tip: Peter Gainsford)

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Getting going with Fedora

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Writing to the JISC-Repositories list, Richard Green (manager of the RepoMMan Project at the University of Hull) announces “an early draft of a project deliverable that describes [their] work getting going with Fedora”: D-D4 Iterative Development of Fedora materials. Sorry, I can’t give you a direct link because they use some kind of indirection from the document title link to the current version … you’ll have to hunt it on their documents page yourself if you want the most recent version.

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Authority vs. popularity

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Recent new features on technorati have provoked Steve Rubel to ask — in the context of link counting and blog rankings — “What is authority?” People are answering …

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Tech-oriented Latin teacher needed for TV studio

Posted on 2006-02-10 by scaife

From: Joan Jahnige jjahnige@ket.org
Date: February 10, 2006 9:07:45 AM EST

KET is actively seeking a Latin teacher. I am planning to retire after 15 fascinating years of teaching and learning. KET is looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years of classroom experience, an interest in technology and a love of teaching Latin. The teacher must have certification that can be transferred to Kentucky and be able to teach from the television studios in Lexington. Please visit my websites for more information and contact me via email or telephone if you are interested. It is an exciting challenge…time consuming but so rewarding. If you are concerned that you will not know your students I can assure you that those who want to connect do so and continue to do so long after they leave high school. KET is very supportive to its teachers and a wonderful environment in which to work. Please pass the word along to anyone you know who does not read Latinteach daily.

Gratias omnibus.

Joan

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Joan Jahnige, Latin teacher
KY Educational Television
600 Cooper Dr. Lexington, KY 40502

859-258-7133 /800-333-9764 – phone
859-258-7390 – fax
https://www.dl.ket.org

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Folksonomy critique

Posted on 2006-02-10 by Tom Elliott

Under the rubric of “Semantic Web for the Masses, by the Masses,” a discussion on the xml-dev list is exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of asynchronous/collaborative tagging of web-based content.

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Google Print Collaborators: ‘Defending the future of books’

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Tom Elliott

Google’s Library Partnerships Director, Laura DeBonis appears on the Official Google Blog to gloss a recent speech by University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, defending book digitization as “protecting the written word for all time.”

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Useful review of OS software today

Posted on 2006-02-09 by scaife

Open-Source Users Break Free From Commercial Software

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Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck

Posted on 2006-02-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Boingboing.net this week:

Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck

David Pescovitz: Last summer, a team researchers dispatched an autonomous undersea robot to explore a Greek merchant ship that sank in the eastern Aegean Sea in the fourth century BC. The scientists from MIT, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, are just now releasing images from the photometric survey. From the MIT News Office:

Newsoffice 2006 Arch-Strip-Detail-EnlargedThe AUV scanned the scattered cargo and created a topographical sonar map while collecting thousands of high-resolution digital images, without ever physically touching the shipwreck. In all, 7,650 images were collected on four dives. WHOI archaeologists and engineers are assembling those images into mosaics that depict the minute features of the shipwreck with unmatched clarity and detail…

Much of the true value in cargo ships such as the Chios wreck is the information they provide about the networks that existed among the ancient Greeks and their trading partners. The wreck is “like a buried UPS truck. It provides a wealth of information that helps us figure out networks based on the contents of the truck,” said (MIT professor David) Mindell.

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Keeping up with the Googleses

Posted on 2006-02-08 by scaife

“We already knew that Yahoo! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.
More from John Battelle.

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Juxta

Posted on 2006-02-07 by scaife

Patacriticism has just released Juxta 1.0:

Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or remove witness texts, to switch the base text at will, and to annotate Juxta-revealed comparisons and save the results.

Juxta comes with several kinds of analytic visualizations. The primary collation gives a split frame comparison of a base text with a witness text, along with a display of the digital images from which the base text is derived. Juxta displays a heat map of all textual variants and allows the user to locate — at the level of any textual unit — all witness variations from the base text. A histogram of Juxta collations is particularly useful for long documents. This visualization displays the density of all variation from the base text and serves as a useful finding aid for specific variants. Juxta can also output a lemmatized schedule (in HTML format) of the textual variants in any set of comparisons.

… The document comparison algorithm implemented in Juxta is a modified version of the Java port of Diff by Ian F. Darwin.

(Hat tip Geoff Rockwell)

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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae CD Rom reviewed

Posted on 2006-02-06 by Gabriel Bodard

A review at Bryn Mawr Classical Review of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition, published by K. G. Saur.

Peter Heslin at Durham has some interesting things to say about the value of this work and of such Greek and Latin textual search tools in general. There are points that would be well raised in discussion either here or in the Digitalclassicist list if people want to share thoughts…

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The future of technology in higher education?

Posted on 2006-02-03 by chuckjones

“The 2006 Horizon Report  is now available. The 2006 edition is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.

The 2006 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions of the report, highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years.

A central focus of the discussion of each technology is its relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression. Live weblinks to example applications are provided in each section, as well as to additional readings.”

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Appropriate venues

Posted on 2006-02-02 by scaife

Peter Suber has done a useful service (again) in writing “Six things that researchers need to know about open access.”

What?  Can’t find a journal that meets your needs?  Perhaps Scholarly Exchange can be brought into the picture.

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The Journal of Maps

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Tom Elliott

From the Journal of Maps website:

The Journal of Maps [(ISSN 1744-5647)] is a new inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish their maps. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method (where the author pays for the review process), all published maps will be freely distributed to anyone wishing to view them.

JoM’s mission is to provide a mechanism for publishing (at low cost) the original fieldwork and observational phenomena that form the underpinning for the results and conclusions that are now normally the only published output from geographic research efforts (costs for outsize printing and color being prohibitive).

JoM requires prospective contributors to assent to a licensing agreement Continue reading →

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