List members might be interested in this new demo video for the ARENA2
project - a European archaeological archive cross-search portal - the
product itself is still under development and several new archive partners
are scheduled for inclusion in the next 6 months, but it gives a good idea
of the proposed project functionality, all with an 'easy listening'
Logos Bible Software and the Society of Biblical Literature are pleased to announce the release of a new, critically edited Greek New Testament.
Reliable
The SBLGNT is edited by Michael W. Holmes, who utilized a wide range of printed editions, all the major critical apparatuses, and the latest technical resources and manuscript discoveries as he established the text. The result is a critically edited text that differs from the Nestle-Aland/United Bible Societies text in more than 540 variation units.
Freely Available
The SBLGNT is available as a free download. Students, teachers, pastors, and interested laypersons can use the SBLGNT right now for research, writing, and study—at no cost.
Exchangeable
The text of the SBLGNT has been encoded in a Unicode-compliant font so users can exchange files easily without having to secure a special Greek font. Users may use SBLGreek or any other Unicode font that supports the full range of Greek characters.
Versatile
In addition to granting professors and students permission to use the SBLGNT freely in their writings, the End-User License Agreement encourages the development of new electronic and print products based on the SBLGNT through a liberal permission and licensing policy.
Available in Print
A reasonably-priced professionally produced print edition of the SBLGNT is also available directly from SBL. It includes the full apparatus of variant readings from the four primary editions on which the SBLGNT is based.
With Smyth-sewn binding, a Kivar cover, and reader-friendly type, the print edition provides a durable, affordable alternative for scholarly research and classroom use.
About Us Our Short-Term Goals
1. To provide people across the globe with anthropological data and ideas that they probably would not receive had we not provided it.
2. To give social scientists the opportunity to actually have their research read. Most manuscripts are merely glanced through.
3. To eventually publish the online magazine in a variety of languages, including but not limited to: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Arabic. Knowledge does not belong to English-speaking people only.
4. We will always be a FREE magazine so that the public and universities around the world can have access to important manuscripts. However, in areas that do not have access to the internet, we would like to someday publish the magazine in hard copy and distribute the magazine free of charge to low-income university libraries.
5. To obtain a healthy number of advertisers in order to become a paying market. We want to be able to pay scholars for submitting their articles to the magazine AND to set up scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences; these scholarships and fellowships will be available to students of every nation, ethnicity, gender, and religion. We would also like to be able to provide traveling expenses for non-US scholars to travel to association meetings and conferences who would not be able to attend otherwise.
6. To incorporate as a not-for-profit.
Our Long-Term Goals
1. To maintain a Theses and Dissertations Database from around the world, free of charge, through our website. It is extremely difficult for US citizens who are not in academia to access theses and dissertations published in the United States. However, it is even more difficult for non-US citizens to get a hold of and read these records. Likewise, most non-US theses and dissertations are unavailable to people in the United States. The data included in these manuscripts took years to conduct and complete. Although some of these works eventually turn into published monographs, many “lay on the shelf collecting dust.” This is something Popular Anthropology Magazine seeks to change. Submission to the database will be voluntary.
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Below you will find three links for each issue: a Flash-Flip online version, a Flash-Flip download version, and a PDF version. Each issue will be uploaded to the archive after the subsequent issue has been published. For example, as soon as the September issue is sent to subscribers, the June issue will be uploaded to the archives. If you would like to receive current issues mailed directly to your email inbox, you can subscribe free of charge on the homepage.
March 2010 Vol. 1 No. 1 Flash-Flip Online Flash-Flip Download PDF Download June 2010 Vol. 1 No. 2 Flash-Flip Online Flash-Flip Download PDF Download September 2010 Vol. 1. No. 3 Flash-Flip Online Flash-Flip Download PDF Download December 2010 Vol. 1 No. 4 Flash-Flip Online Flash-Flip Download PDF Download March 2011 Vol. 2 No. 1 Flash-Flip Online Flash-Flip Download PDF Download June 2011 Vol. 2 No. 2 Flash-Flip Online Flash-Flip Download PDF Download September 2011 Vol. 2 No. 3
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This update includes many books relating to antiquity. Click here to download the forthcoming list as an Excel spreadsheet sortable by author, title, or ISBN.HEB’s eighth round of new titles is forthcoming in January 2011. This includes 543 electronic books covering a wide range of disciplines and fields. Among the most prominent new additions are another 141 titles in Film and Media Studies, 46 more in Philosophy, 57 in Central and Eastern European Studies, 41 in Music and Musicology, 33 in Jewish Studies, as well as 29 more in Bibliography and 30 in Linguistics and Literature.
This e-journal will publish the proceedings of the Athens Dialogues Conference, which will take place on November 24-27 in Athens Greece. The Athens Dialogues E-Journal is jointly sponsored by the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
I realize I've missed a trick by not posting this during Open Access Week. I've been meaning for a while to canvass this list regarding open licensed Classical data--not just texts that can be freely read online in HTML or PDF, say, but text or data released under a license (Creative Commons, GPL, etc.) that explicitly allows the creative and transformative re-use of the underlying code (XML, RDF, images, etc.).
I started compiling this list for a developers' challenge that we held back in July, and am particularly interested in the possibility of archiving and re-using this sort of material.
The first list only includes publications whose underlying data source is available for download without having to ask permission or enter a password, and whose license explicitly permits re-use. The Linked Data list is just stuff that appears to be available for re-use (that's what
LD is for, after all), but may not have explicit licenses.
If anybody has or knows of datasets that should be added to either of these lists, please send them to the list (or ask me and I'll give you permission to edit the Google spreadsheets).
Papyri.info is dedicated to the study of ancient papyrological documents. It offers links to papyrological resources, a customized search engine (called the Papyrological Navigator) capable of retrieving information from multiple related collections, and an editing application, the Papyrological Editor, which contributors can use to suggest emendations to PN texts.
The Papyrological Navigator aggregates and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), as well as links to Trismegistos.
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PN 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the PN system, with tight integration of the data, display, and search capabilities.
New features include:
All of the Duke Databank and HGV texts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license and the APIS data is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
- Cleaner interface
- More search options
- Browse by collection
- Search across metadata, transcriptions, and translations simultaneously
- New image viewer
- Improved performance
We hope you will enjoy using the new system. Look for more frequent updates in the future!
CLIR and Tufts University are engaging scholars and academic librarians in examining the services and digital objects classicists have developed, the future needs of the discipline, and the roles of libraries and other curatorial institutions in fostering the infrastructure on which the core intellectual activities of classics and many other disciplines depend. We envision a set of shared services layered over a distributed storage architecture that is seamless to end users, allows multiple contributors, and leverages institutional resources and facilities. Much of this architecture exists at individual projects and institutions; the challenge is to identify the suite of shared services to be developed.
Prior research supported by public and private agencies has created digital resources in classics, which are arguably the most developed and interconnected set of collections and associated services in any discipline outside of the sciences. Questions now posed test the limits of project-based services. The findings of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), and two symposia hosted by CLIR (the second with co-sponsorship by NEH) demonstrate that managing digital information requires libraries to play an active role in the research process to ensure appropriate curation and preservation of digital resources. This project will help library professionals understand the challenges of supporting new kinds of publications (e.g., treebanks, or syntactic databases for texts) and services (e.g., named entity identification services optimized for domains such as classical studies) and engage them in designing solutions. The project will also be relevant to areas such as medieval studies, archaeology, and ancient and near eastern languages.
CLIR is seeking public comment on a literature review that identifies existing services, resources, and needs in the field of classics. The report, Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day: Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists, was produced by Alison Babeu of the Perseus Project at Tufts University. It is intended to inform planning for the next phase of work: description of an infrastructure to support digital classics and related fields of research. (The report is a 1.8 MB .pdf file, please allow time for it to download).
Comments on the draft report should be submitted to Kathlin Smith (ksmithatclirdotorg) by December 1, 2010. We especially encourage the identification of topics or projects that are missing in the report, or that might be represented more fully.
Introduction............................................................................................................................................................ 5
Classics and Computers: A Long History.............................................................................................................. 5
Multidisciplinary Classical Digital Libraries: Advanced Technologies and Services .......................................... 10
Bibliographies/Catalogs/Directories............................................................................................................. 11
Document Analysis, Recognition and OCR for Historical Languages ........................................................ 14
Ancient Greek ......................................................................................................................................... 14
Latin ........................................................................................................................................................ 17
Sanskrit.................................................................................................................................................... 20
Syriac ...................................................................................................................................................... 23
Cuneiform Texts and Sumerian ............................................................................................................... 23
Computational Linguistics (Treebanks, Automatic Morphological Analysis, Lexicons) ............................ 27
Treebanks ................................................................................................................................................ 28
Morphological Analysis.......................................................................................................................... 29
Lexicons.................................................................................................................................................. 31
Canonical Text Services, Citation Detection, Citation Linking ................................................................... 33
Text Mining, Quotation Detection and Authorship Attribution................................................................... 37
The Disciplines and Technologies of Digital Classics.......................................................................................... 38
Ancient History................................................................................................................................................ 38
Classical Archaeology ..................................................................................................................................... 40
Overview ..................................................................................................................................................... 40
Electronic Publishing and Traditional Publishing........................................................................................ 40
Data Creation, Data Sharing, Data Preservation .......................................................................................... 42
Digital Repositories, Data Integration & Cyberinfrastructure for Archaeology .......................................... 44
Designing Digital Infrastructures for the Research Methods of Archaeology ............................................. 47
Visualization & 3D Reconstructions of Archaeological Sites...................................................................... 51
Classical Art & Architecture............................................................................................................................ 55
Classical Geography ........................................................................................................................................ 56
The Ancient World Mapping Center............................................................................................................ 57
The Pleiades Project .................................................................................................................................... 57
The HESTIA Project ................................................................................................................................... 59
Digital Editions & Text Editing........................................................................................................................ 61
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 61
Theoretical Issues of Modeling and Markup for Digital Editions................................................................ 62
New Models of Collaboration, Tools & Frameworks for Digital Editions .................................................. 67
The Challenges of Text Alignment & Text Variants ................................................................................... 70
Epigraphy......................................................................................................................................................... 73
Overview: Epigraphy Databases, Digital Epigraphy and EpiDoc............................................................... 73
Online Epigraphy Databases ........................................................................................................................ 77
EpiDoc-Based Digital Epigraphy Projects ................................................................................................... 81
The Challenges of Linking Digital Epigraphy and Digital Classics Projects............................................... 85
Advanced Imaging Technologies for Epigraphy.......................................................................................... 88
Manuscript Studies .......................................................................................................................................... 89
Digital Libraries of Manuscripts .................................................................................................................. 90
Digital Challenges of Individual Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections................................................. 94
Digital Manuscripts, Infrastructure and Automatic Linking Technologies.................................................. 98
Numismatics .................................................................................................................................................. 101
Numismatics Databases............................................................................................................................. 101
Numismatic Data Integration and Digital Publication................................................................................ 104
Palaeography.................................................................................................................................................. 107
Papyrology..................................................................................................................................................... 109
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Digital Papyri Projects............................................................................................................................... 109
Integrating Digital Collections of Papyri and Digital Infrastructure .......................................................... 113
EpiDoc, Digital Papyrology and Reusing Digital Resources ..................................................................... 116
Collaborative Workspaces, Image Analysis and Reading Support Systems.............................................. 117
Philology........................................................................................................................................................ 122
Tools for Electronic Philology: BAMBI and Aristarchus .......................................................................... 123
Infrastructure for Digital Philology: the Teuchos project.......................................................................... 124
Prosopography ............................................................................................................................................... 127
Issues in the Creation of Prosopographical Databases ............................................................................... 128
Network Analysis & Digital Prosopography.............................................................................................. 129
Relational Databases and Modeling Prosopography.................................................................................. 131
Other Prosopographical Databases............................................................................................................. 134
The Use and Users of Resources in Digital Classics and the Digital Humanities .............................................. 136
Citation of Digital Classics Resources............................................................................................................ 137
The Research Habits of Digital Humanists..................................................................................................... 138
Humanist Use of Source Materials: Digital Library Design Implications..................................................... 141
Creators of Digital Humanities Resources: Factors for Successful Use........................................................ 144
“Traditional” Academic Use of Digital Humanities Resources...................................................................... 146
The CSHE Study ....................................................................................................................................... 146
The LAIRAH Project ................................................................................................................................ 147
The RePAH project ................................................................................................................................... 149
The TIDSR Study...................................................................................................................................... 151
Overview of Digital Classics Cyberinfrastructure .............................................................................................. 152
Requirements of Cyberinfrastructure for Classics.......................................................................................... 152
Open Access Repositories of Secondary Scholarship ................................................................................ 153
Open Access, Collaboration, Reuse and Digital Classics........................................................................... 153
Undergraduate Research, Teaching and E-Learning.................................................................................. 158
Looking Backward: State of Digital Classics in 2005............................................................................... 164
Looking Forward: Classics Cyberinfrastructure, Themes and Requirements in 2010............................... 165
Classics Cyberinfrastructure Projects ............................................................................................................. 169
APIS—Advanced Papyrological Information System ............................................................................... 169
CLAROS—Classical Art Research Center Online Services...................................................................... 169
Concordia .................................................................................................................................................. 169
Digital Antiquity........................................................................................................................................ 170
Digital Classicist........................................................................................................................................ 170
eAQUA...................................................................................................................................................... 170
eSAD—e-Science and Ancient Documents ............................................................................................... 170
Integrating Digital Papyrology & Papyri.info ............................................................................................ 171
Interedition: an “Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions”................................... 171
LaQuAT—Linking and Querying of Ancient Texts .................................................................................. 172
Building A Humanities Cyberinfrastructure ....................................................................................................... 172
Defining Digital Humanities, Cyberinfrastructure and the Future ............................................................. 172
Open Content, Services and Tools as Infrastructure .................................................................................. 173
New Evaluation and Incentive Models for Digital Scholarship & Publishing........................................... 178
Challenges of Humanities Data & Digital Infrastructure ........................................................................... 180
“General” Humanities Infrastructures, Domain-Specific Needs, and the Research Needs of Humanists . 181
VREs in the Humanities: A Way of Addressing Domain Specific Needs?............................................... 185
New Models of Scholarly Collaboration.................................................................................................... 188
Sustainable Preservation and Curation Infrastructures for Digital Humanities.......................................... 189
Levels of Interoperability and Infrastructure.............................................................................................. 195
The Future of Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship........................................................................ 200
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Overview of Large Cyberinfrastructure Projects............................................................................................ 201
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) ............................................................................ 201
arts-humanities.net..................................................................................................................................... 202
centerNET ................................................................................................................................................. 202
CLARIN .................................................................................................................................................... 203
DARIAH Project ....................................................................................................................................... 204
Digital Humanities Observatory................................................................................................................. 206
DRIVER.................................................................................................................................................... 207
NoC-Network of Expert Centres ................................................................................................................ 207
Project Bamboo ......................................................................................................................................... 207
SEASR....................................................................................................................................................... 208
TextGrid .................................................................................................................................................... 209
TextVRE.................................................................................................................................................... 211
References.......................................................................................................................................................... 211
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