BMCR review of Antiquarium 2.0

Posted on 2005-09-06 by Gabriel Bodard

Two Italian scholars, Berti and Costa, have a review in BMCR 2004.09.10 of the Antiquarium software for reading the TLG and PHI CD Roms. They make some sound (and enthusiastic) observations about the price, speed, ease of use, and comprehensive Beta Code coverage of the tool, which seems to be a good choice especially for those scholars without the financial backing of an institution that subscribes to the TLG Online (which remains the only truly acceptable way to search the TLG, in my humble opinion…)

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ITSEE

Posted on 2005-08-30 by scaife

From Mark Goodacre’s blog, notice of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, led by Peter Robinson and David Parker. Interesting web site, with descriptions of several meaty-sounding projects.

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Comparisons

Posted on 2005-08-30 by scaife

John Langford and Martin Pool have a worthwhile post on the Machine Learning (Theory) blog on “(Dis)similarities between academia and open source programmers.” (Hat tip Peter Suber.)

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Virtual Agora from FHW

Posted on 2005-08-30 by Gabriel Bodard

(Yahoo press release; seen on Rogueclassicism)

Late next year, Foundation of the Hellenic World’s (www.fhw.gr) innovative cultural center/museum, Hellenic Cosmos, will feature an immersive virtual tour of Agora, the heart of ancient Athens. For the development of this stunning virtual reality (VR) presentation in advance of the 2006 opening of a state-of-the-art immersive 128-seat domed theater, the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW), a not-for-profit cultural institution in Athens, Greece, selected visualization technology from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI – News). FHW will use the SGI® system to add more animations and much more realistic graphics to the Agora presentation than its previous VR datasets. The final implementation solution will be decided at a later date.

(Full story)

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BMCR on two digital dictionaries

Posted on 2005-08-30 by juangarces

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review has posted a review by Gerald Verbrugghe (Rutgers University) on two digital dictionaries:

Libronix Digital Library System, H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (rev. H.S. Jones and R. McKenzie, rev. supp. by P.G.W. Glare) Oxford 1996. Bellingham: Logos Bible Software, 2003.
$145.00. (link)

Wilhelm Pape, Electronic Edition of Griechisch-Deutsch: Handwo+rterbuch der griechischen Sprache, 3te Auflage (1914). Berlin: Digitale Bibliothek, 2005. ISBN 3-89853-517-7. EUR 45.00.
(link)

While overall positive, Verbrugghe points out some problematic issues (e.g. incorrect reproduction of lemmata in LSJ). He also offers some interesting comparisons between print and digital as well as between online and CD ROM versions.

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Atlas of Europe

Posted on 2005-08-27 by Gabriel Bodard

The Atlas of Europe website now includes several interactive physical maps; for example the clickable map showing European rivers (http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/hydrography.htm), and mountain ranges (http://www.euratlas.com/Atlasphys/Orography.htm). Some nice effects.

(Euratlas also features maps of Ancient Rome, historical atlases, and other resources. And as far as I can see, it’s all free.)

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BMCR review of Jacoby CD Rom

Posted on 2005-08-24 by Gabriel Bodard

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-08-37.html

F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. CD-Rom Edition. Leiden: Brill, 2004. ISBN 90-04-14137-5. €1,500.00.

Reviewed by John Marincola, The Florida State University (jmarinco@mailer.fsu.edu)

The review includes some good comments on the limitations of such an edition which is not a whole lot more than a page-based scan of the printed volumes (and incredibly expensive…), without denying that the indices and search facility make it invaluable to the historian.

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DigInc

Posted on 2005-08-22 by scaife

The Stoa now mirrors the Digital Incunabula site from the Center for Hellenic Studies.

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Academic Commons

Posted on 2005-08-18 by juangarces

The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College has launched Academic Commons, “a forum for investigating and defining the role that technology can play in liberal arts education”. The site offers essays, reviews, and interviews, as well as reports on innovatively used technology in research and teaching. Its aim is to foster an open community that shares and collaborates in the design and development of digital tools. Publishing its contributions in editions (the latest edition is for August 2005), it also offers a newsletter to which members can subscribe.

(seen at Humanist)

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ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship program

Posted on 2005-08-17 by scaife

With great pleasure we accede to Saul Fisher’s request for posting of the following announcement from ACLS:

ACLS OPENS COMPETITION FOR DIGITAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce its new Digital Innovation Fellowship program, in support of digitally based research projects in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. These fellowships, created with the generous help of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are intended to support an academic year dedicated to work on a major scholarly project of a digital character that advances humanistic studies and best exemplifies the integration of such research with use of computing, networking, and other information technology-based tools. The online application for the fellowship program is located at http://ofa.acls.org; applications must be completed by November 10, 2005 (decisions to be announced in late March 2006).

This is the first national fellowship program to recognize and reward humanistic scholarship in the digital sphere, and to help establish standards for judging the quality, innovation, and utility of such research. Many scholars have been working in the humanities for years with such tools as digital research archives, new media representations of extant data, and innovative databases-and now the ACLS sees an important opportunity to start identifying and providing incentive for distinctive work, on a national basis. Continue reading →

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Okus — reading environment for Classical Greek texts

Posted on 2005-08-11 by scaife

from the mailbag this morning:

Dear Member of Classics Department or Classical Organization:

As the academic year approaches, I am writing to inform you about a new computer application, Okus, that is available for studying ancient Greek texts. Okus incorporates new methods for reading ancient Greek, including color-coordination of words based on tense or case and fast morphology parsing / dictionary-entry retrieval.

A demonstration version of this program is available for download at http://p225.com/. At this time Okus is only available on Microsoft Windows (XP and 2000).

Questions or comments will be welcomed. Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,

Projects 225

I’m not sure what to make of this line on the Projects 225 website: “due to the text operations this program is written in C++ for the windows OS.”

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Latin inscriptions from Wales

Posted on 2005-08-11 by juangarces

This website, by Karel Jongeling (University of Leiden), aims to list the Latin epigraphic evidence surviving in Wales. The Latin inscriptions may be searched in a variety of ways, and are partly furnished with translations, drawings and photographs. Search options include searches by modern place-name and by number in R. A. S. MacDonald’s ‘Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum’, vols 1-2 (Dublin, 1945-9) or in V. E. Nash-Williams’ ‘The Early Christian Monuments in Wales’ (Cardiff, 1950). The inscriptions may also be listed by pre-1974 districts and by counties. The site also provides a bibliography. At the time of writing, this site was still under construction.

URL: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/vtw/jongeling/latwelsh.html

(seen at Humbul)

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Digital Classicist blog on Stoa

Posted on 2005-08-10 by Gabriel Bodard

This is probably self-evident by now, but I should like to announce that the Digital Classicist blog, formerly on eBlogger, has moved and merged with the Stoa blog. We intend to publish more news items on this site regarding events, projects, tools, publications, and job advertisements of interest to Classicists. (Much of the same as what Ross has been doing all of this time, just more of us now!)

To learn more about the Digital Classicist’s charter and agenda, or to get involved, please visit: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/

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Dumezil Online (in DJVu)

Posted on 2005-08-10 by Gabriel Bodard

(Seen on Rogueclassicism)

AM over at Sauvage Noble points us to the existence of an amazing (potentially) site dedicated to the work of Georges Dumezil. Most (if not all) of GD’s scholarly papers are available online in DJVu format …

http://bibulus2.nexenservices.com/dumezil/en/index.php

In addition to DM’s rant about the piecemeal way things like this are ‘published’, I wonder how much use to anyone this stuff really is in DJVu? The articles all seem to be bitmapped with no OCR, so not searchable, citeable, or repurposeable. Is this really any more ‘electronic publication’ than my making a bunch of photocopies and handing them out would be? (OK, exposure to a large audience is not negligible, of course. But still.)

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Inaugural International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation 2005

Posted on 2005-08-10 by melissa

University of Abertay Dundee
Thursday 10th November 2005

Colloquium announcement and call for papers

In November, the University of Abertay Dundee in conjunction with the Patrick Allan-Fraser of Hospitalfield Trust will host the Inaugural International Colloquium on Digital Heritage and Preservation in its newly-opened Cultural Centre.

The colloquium will run alongside an International Exhibition of Digital Heritage and Preservation, featuring exhibits from, amongst others, the Universities of Stanford and Venice. The event will provide stimulating presentations from a broad range of cultural sectors and will give delegates the opportunity to hear presentations from five leading figures in the field.

Call for Papers

Deadline for proposals: 31st August 2005

The colloquium committee invites proposals for papers on any area of digital heritage or preservation, and from all cultural sectors: museums, libraries, archives, archaeological monuments and sites, live performances, exhibitions and of course, the World Wide Web.

In particular we welcome proposals that seek to comment on applications of digital technology to the protection of heritage resources (including the virtual recreation of lost resources), or which apply cross-disciplinary thinking to heritage and preservation. Possible topics for consideration include, but are not restricted to:

Digitising cultural heritage
Augmented reality
Digital libraries and digital documents
Virtual architecture and construction
Applications of music technology to heritage preservation
3D modelling and animation
Digital photography
Web and audiovisual archiving
Haptic interfaces and blurring the real-virtual boundary
Displaying virtual and intangible exhibits
Digital technology and curatorship
Working models and case studies
Interdisciplinary perspectives

Individual presentations should be no more than twenty minutes in duration. Proposals should take the form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 250 words. Deadline for submission is 31st August 2005. Decisions will be notified in early September 2005. Finished papers for inclusion in the on-line proceedings should be 3000-4000 words in length and should be received by 15th October 2005.

Proposals should be sent to:
Dr. Kenny McAlpine
University of Abertay Dundee
Kydd Building, Bell Street, Dundee, DD1 1HG, UK
E-mail: k.mcalpine@abertay.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0)1382 308600
Fax: +44 (0)1382 308627

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