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articles · Preserving Digital Heritage for Perpetuity… or at Least for the Next 25 Years
24/5/2008 00:26 · 30 votes · 3 comments
Sharing heritage digitally is becoming more and more commonplace. In the past few years alone, a new awareness has emerged of the value of digital sharing. The National Endowment for the Humanities has initiated a new Digital Humanities Program, which awarded over $1 million in 2007. The Society for American Archaeology’s annual conference in Vancouver in March saw twice as many...
articles · Scholars, Looters and Stewardship of the Past
14/12/2007 23:22 · 52 votes · 2 comments
At a brunch gathering I attended recently, a guest casually mentioned that they were reading a book about Heinrich Schliemann, the German excavator at Troy, who removed archaeological treasures from Turkey in the late 19th century. There were nods and chuckles as people recalled the (probably fictitious) story of Schliemann “saving” what he named “Priam’s Treasure” by whisking the...
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articles · From the Ground Up: Shared Heritage with Open Context
7/11/2007 15:52 · no comments
In 2001, a group of archaeologists and anthropologists founded the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) to explore ways to make cultural heritage data dissemination easier and more cost effective. In 2003, the AAI received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as part of their Open Educational Resources initiative and the primary outcome of this funding is Open Context,...
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articles · Olympic Ideals & Trademark Practice
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 6/10/2008 12:40 · 17 votes · 1 comment
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That also entails promoting the Olympic ideals of international co-operation and the like. Lately, these competitions have become gigantic in scale and expense. While there were only 241 participants (14 countries) in the first Olympics in Athens (1896), the Beijing Summer Olympics had 10,500...
articles · Grassroots Publishing Through Open Source and Web 2.0
by Wojciech Gryc, Five Minutes to Midnight · voted on 12/9/2008 01:31 · 22 votes · no comments
When it comes to making print media, the number of options available to grassroots organisations and informal groups can be daunting. Indeed, with the rise of open source software packages, web 2.0 publishing tools, and crowd sourcing sites where one can hire designers for very low prices, the number of options is only increasing. What is exciting about these tools, however, is...
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articles · Egypt's Attempted 5000 Year Copyright Extension
by Eric Kansa · commented on 11/1/2008 09:00 · 41 votes · 7 comments
A recent announcement from the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities caused something of an Internet news stir, seeing active discussion on several blogs and other outlets, including high traffic sites such as BoingBoing and Slashdot.
According to a report from the BBC, the Egyptian Government is about to enact a copyright law to protect Egyptian antiquities, and this law...
articles · Gogo creates an iCommons crossword puzzle
by Gogo Hleba · commented on 30/11/2007 08:02 · 25 votes · 1 comment
Although Gogo loves the commons community with all her heart, she sometimes finds herself emotionally weighed down by all the problems that the community turn to her with; burning issues such as: Why hasn't anyone voted for my article? Why can't I used all-rights-reserved images on the website? Is it really wrong for men to wear ladies underwear to the office? So Gogo decided...
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