Month: July 2007
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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007
Friday 3rd August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London Melissa Terras (University College London) ‘Can computers ever read ancient texts?’ Researchers in the Centre of the Study of Ancient Documents, and the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford (and now UCL SLAIS), have been attempting to build a system to…
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Tools available to the classics community
The following tools have been made available for members of the Classics community. Most are free (and therefore unsupported). Where possible, we have included purchasing information and whether or not these tools have been tested (link…thanks to digitalclassicist.org)
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A Blog Philosophy
If a blog can have a philosophy, then the philosophy of this blog is that there is nothing particularly radical about the new. The new may be radical to some, but the new can only be new in the context of the old (or their ‘old’). Some of the old may be threatened by the…
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Virtual Workspace for the Study on Ancient Documents
A wonderful new project from the a new generation of Digital Humanities projects. The project will construct a virtual workspace for research involving decipherment and textual analysis of damaged and degraded ancient documents. It will provide direct access to widely scattered research resources such as dictionaries, corpora of texts and images of original documents, enabling…
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Museums in Libya 2.0
Dear friends, After several months of intense and exciting work, the nonprofit research project “Museums in Libya 2.0” (http://lamusediffuse.com/muslibeng.htm) is already available on the Internet. Now we are looking forward your feedback and interaction. The research team lamusediffuse (http://lamusediffuse.com) proposes the use of Social Web tools for the inclusion of non-dominant cultural expressions in the…
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How to create a virtual museum
A good introductory article from the Relics and Selves Archive produced here at King’s College. This virtual exhibition originated with the idea of deconstructing the rarefied and sanctified museum atmosphere, and thus subvert the order and cataloguing of objects which were important to the consolidation of national imaginaires in 1880s Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The…