Monthly Archives: July 2007

Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007

By Craig | Published: July 31, 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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Powerpoint slides online with Web 2.0

By Craig | Published: July 24, 2007

This is a presentation that I have last month at the National Centre for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-Champaign; Illinois. This publishing application is pretty neat huh?

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Gutenburg Bible online

By Craig | Published: July 24, 2007

If you were thinking that the Internet was not a significant medium, then think again. The question is not what significant documents are online, but what significant documents aren’t already online. On this site you will find the British Library’s two copies of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible, the first real book to be printed using the [...]

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Research Assistant in the use of ICT in Archaeology

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2007

JISC-funded Research Project, VERA: Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology Applications are invited for the part-time post of Research Assistant in the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at UCL to work on VERA: Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology. This project will research the development and use of a virtual research environment designed [...]

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Tools available to the classics community

By Craig | Published: July 21, 2007

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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Texts into databases: The Evolving Field of New-style Prosopography

By Craig | Published: July 20, 2007

This is a paper delivered by Harold Short and John Bradley at the ACH/ALLC conference Athens Georgia 2003 At King’s College London, we are embarked on three major historial projects that violate almost all of the guidelines evidently considered to be fundamental by Townsend, Chappell and Struijyé for an appropriate application of relational database technology. [...]

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Oxford University spies on Facebook profiles…

By Craig | Published: July 20, 2007

Thanks to the Melbourne Age. I wish that I was important enough that King’s College would spy on me! For students at the University of Oxford, Facebook is a great way to keep posted on gossip and parties. For campus officials, it’s a new way to find – and fine – troublemakers.After exams, students at [...]

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