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Academic Search from Microsoft (Yup, it’s Bing Scholar)
I still get a ton of traffic to this blog from people searching for a Microsoft Bing version of Google Scholar. Yesterday I got a comment from someone who works at Microsoft linking me to such a...
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Google Scholar Citations & Wikipedia Initiative
I started a temporary job this week, at the University of Cincinnati Classics Library. It was sudden, and is temporary, because it followed the unexpected death of David Ball, the longtime Circulation...
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Disciplinary Meetings, Technology and Self-Reflection
This weekend the AIA/APA Annual Meetings took place in Philadelphia. Several other major disciplinary academic conferences take place the first weekend in January, taking advantage of the semester...
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The Future of L’Annee Philologique
I am possibly the last Classics-related blogger to post the petition asking the German government and/or Heidelberg to reconsider defunding the German office of L’Annee; North American readers should...
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Resource Review: LIMCicon and LIMCbiblio
I have mentioned before that LIMC - Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae – is one of my favorite Classics reference resources, so I was excited to receive notice of an online version of LIMC...
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LAWDI Conference on Linked Open Data for Ancient Studies
This week I was very fortunate to attend the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) conference held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU, in New York City and...
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Library-Related Presentations at LAWDI
LAWDI was set up with half-hour presentations by ‘faculty,’ and 15-minute presentations by the rest of the attendees. Links to slides for all presentations that used them are being collected here. In...
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LAWDI 3: Good Linking Practices for Bibliographic Stuff
While the following were informed by conversations and presentations at LAWDI, they should be considered my opinions only, and I welcome any (polite!) discussion of why my ideas are wrong-headed in...
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What’s a DOI (And Why?)
This post was inspired by a twitter conversation last night; my thanks to @DrKillgrove, @YaleClassicsLib and @rogueclassicist for their questions and answers! DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier,...
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MARC Records for Packard Humanities Institute Latin Texts
Blake Landor, the Classics, Philosophy, Religion and General Humanities Librarian at the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, has just announced the availability of a set of open-access...
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TOCS-IN at Zotero: A Project That Didn’t Work
So, blogging a project that didn’t work – good idea or not? Let’s see… The project was to get the content of the TOCS-IN citation database into the free, open-access bibliographic software Zotero...
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November Project: AcWriMo
Following the lead of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) some enterprising folks came up with AcWriMo (Academic Writing Month). The idea is that you commit to a certain academic writing goal, and...
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Places to Publish Open-Access in Classics and Related Areas
The following was begun during an informal morning coffee with a group of Hellenic Studies librarians. Special thanks go to Elli Mylonas and Colin McCaffrey, who were seated on either side of me, but...
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Classics Lives at the Public Library
This is just a short note to mention that I started working at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County as the Grants Resource Librarian, a part of the Information and Reference Department,...
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Information Fluency Workshop: Center for Hellenic Studies
(I wanted to title this post “What I did on my summer vacation,” but I figured that would not be very helpful for the search engines out there.) In July I had the privilege of spending 10 days teaching...
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Want Background for Linked Open Data? Try this Coursera Metadata Class
Just a quick note to encourage anyone who was interested in LAWDI, the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (see my post on it here) – but felt that you lacked the conceptual background to really...
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Online Continuing Education Class Sequence in XML and RDF
If I had a) time and b) money, I would certainly be considering taking the classes for the Certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems at Library Juice Academy. It starts next February, and comprises 6...
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L’Annee Philologique – EBSCO Interface
Last month an embarrassingly long time ago now that it’s November, I spent a day off work at the John Miller Burnam Classical Library at the University of Cincinnati, and among the errands I undertook...
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Update on Google Art Project / World Wonders / Cultural Institute
I posted some time ago about Google Art Project, in which Google did a “street view”-like walk through of international museums. They have also done this at archaeological sites, in a set of locations...
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Solving a Quotation Mystery with Digital Loeb Classical Library
I got a message from an old friend – not a classicist – recently: Many years ago I remember reading a prayer in a Greek tragedy that had a line something like “I’ll be satisfied if my lot is two thirds...
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