Thursday, October 28, 2010

ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship 2010 | Presentations, Video, and Audio Now Available

Presentations, video, and audio files have been posted from both days of the ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship 2010 and are available for download.

September 27th presentations about ITHAKA services can be found here.


September 28th materials on Discovering Scholarly Content can be found here.

n.b.  the video and audio files are quite large. Depending on your bandwidth and preferred web browser, it might be best to download and save the files first.
 



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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Bonhams trouble?

This interesting story broke overnight:

Bonhams: Lots of trouble on New Bond Street
Allegations of dirty tricks are haunting the leading auction house. Mark Hughes investigates the strange saga of the Medici Dossier
The Indepenent
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
The photographs in question are in the print edition but not in the online edition.   But they are accessible online in The Art Newspaper's  story:

Medici “loot” for sale?
Two works coming to auction with Bonhams appear similar to those pictured in Polaroids found in the convicted dealer’s Geneva store
By Fabio Isman and Melanie Gerlis | From issue 217, October 2010
Published online 5 Oct 10 (market)

 David Gill comments this morning at on Looting Matters:

Bonhams: Resurfacing Antiquities


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Friday, October 22, 2010

Alexandria Archive Institute Open Zooarchaeology Prize

2010 Open Zooarchaeology Prize Winners
from Heritage Bytes

In celebration of Open Access Week, the Alexandria Archive Institute has announced the winners of the 2010 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition.

The Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition awards the best open access, reusable content presented at an International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) conference by a junior researcher (current student or degree in the past 10 years). The 2010 competition is the second time this particular contest has been held, the first being at the 2006 ICAZ meeting in Mexico City (view 2006 results).
The winners of this year’s prize are:
1st Place: David Orton (University of Cambridge) wins $500 for the project The skeleton as map: using GIS technology to facilitate the display and dissemination of anatomical data. View entry in BoneCommons
2nd Place: Jillian Garvey (La Trobe University) wins $200 in books from the David Brown Book Company for her project Bennett’s wallaby marrow quality vs quantity: Evaluating human decision-making and seasonal occupation in late Pleistocene Tasmania. View entry in BoneCommons
For more information about the winners, visit the prize announcement in BoneCommons .
About the competition:
The Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize is one of a series of open archaeology prize competitions organized by the Alexandria Archive Institute with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and sponsorship from the David Brown Book Company.

For more information about the Open Zooarchaeology Prize, visit this link.
Read about other open archaeology prizes here.

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)

 An interesting journal I had not seen before. (Not open access)

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all areas relating to the innovative use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of Cultural Heritage. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that demonstrate innovative use of technology for the discovery, analysis, interpretation and presentation of findings as well as manuscripts that illustrate applications in the Cultural Heritage sector that challenge the computational technologies and suggest new research opportunities in computer science.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Books, Boredom, Contests...

Several bibliobloggers are having a contest to see who can come up with the most boring book title in Biblical / Ancient Near Eastern Studies.  Eisenbrauns is even offering a a $50.00 gift certificate for the winner, presumably to be redeemed for other books with boring titles.  While I'm generally happy to defer to the true experts in boredom, I think I have identified the most boring table of content ever:







 Even if you know the title of the book, this is just stunningly unhelpful and pointless!  But if anyone has a better/worse one, I will gladly defer to them.


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Open Access Week 2010

Open Access Week 2010 begins October 18th.

I expect to relaunch the List  of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies.

What are others doing?

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