Geodia

GeoDia (jee-oh-DEE-uh, short for "geodiachronicity") is intended to provide a simple, intuitive way for people to visualize the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Enter GeoDia >>


It uses a mashup of MIT's Simile Timeline and Google Maps APIs to display the important archaeological sites and historical events of the ancient Mediterranean world in both space and time, and uses the Digital Archives Services (DASe) infrastructure to integrate visual resources associated with those archaeological sites during specific historical and art-historical periods. The user can browse sites or events by region or culture, or search for specific sites, events, or images. The results will be displayed in their spatial and temporal context on the map and the timeline. Results sets can be managed, shared, and exported to KML.

GeoDia is the result of a two-year long project proposed and directed by Adam Rabinowitz, assistant professor of Classics and assistant director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at University of Texas at Austin, with the generous support of the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services.

Programming for the interface and the underlying database was carried out by Stuart Ross of LAITS. GeoDia uses the timemap.js library developed by Nick Rabinowitz and the DASe infrastructure developed by Peter Keane for the Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at UT Austin.

Click http://geodia.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/timemap.html#zoom=4&center=36.8,17.18&date=2011-07-13T08:2306Z&item_type=site&cultures=greek&regions=&terms=&site_period=&removed=&pleiades_uri=

Celebrating Science

KNOWLEDGE ALARM 2010

A city on the edge of the world. A ship full of animals. Dusty curiosities. Super-advanced brain research. Cities of the future. The moorings creak. A bishop long dead. Your most distant ancestors. A giant octopus.

Organisms on glass. A shipwreck. The Tree of Life. A watch tower. Chests with Viking swords. Family gatherings. Someone jumping into the water. A brain cell. Renewable energy. Fossils. A double helix.
A university. A scientific society. Dubious experiments. Forgotten books. Scientific discoveries. Datings. Telescopes and water pipes. A human being without skin.
A museum. A time travel. An exhibition.
Knowledge Alarm 2010.

KNOWLEDGE ALARM 2010

A city on the edge of the world. A ship full of animals. Dusty curiosities. Super-advanced brain research. Cities of the future. The moorings creak. A bishop long dead. Your most distant ancestors. A giant octopus.

Organisms on glass. A shipwreck. The Tree of Life. A watch tower. Chests with Viking swords. Family gatherings. Someone jumping into the water. A brain cell. Renewable energy. Fossils. A double helix.
A university. A scientific society. Dubious experiments. Forgotten books. Scientific discoveries. Datings. Telescopes and water pipes. A human being without skin.
A museum. A time travel. An exhibition.
Knowledge Alarm 2010.
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E-readers

Today at 11 o'clock the students of archaeology will be confronted with the new media in reading. Their books are scanned and downloaded to a e-reader for them to try and use that through the whole semester as a tool for preparing themselves to the exams. The university library of Trondheim and Tapir editions is working together with on that project and archaeology students in Norway will be the first ones to try such a service from the library. The project started in september 2009 and is trying to collect data on the attitude of the students today in using e-books and journals in their curriculum. By the end of the semester a report will be produced and published.

Alexandra Angeletaki
Lars Danielsen

From Univeristas newspaper

Electronic pilot project

At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the pilot project «E-pensum» is starting these days. This means that six students in two different subjects will be given e-book devices containing all of their curriculum. At this point, there are possible plans for a similar project at the University of Oslo next autumn semester.
– If the plans are realized, we want to do them in a slightly larger scale, says Rasmussen.
Whether the plans are realized or not will be decided in the beginning of February.

In the library at BI Norwegian School of Management there are just below 100 titles available electronically, and non-fictional curriculum is one of the most important areas of commitment. Most of the most important titles, however, is not available as e-books yet. BI also fails to get rid of the user limitations that come with the e-books.
– It is possible to print the pages, but there are certain regulations that make the process a bit complicated, so printing is not something we do, says Kristin Danielsen, librarian at BI.

These limitations are, according to Danielsen, made by the publishers, and are beyond the libraries´ control.

Øyvind Bosnes Engen • Ketil Blom (foto) • Translated by Ingrid Flognfeldt Brubaker

From Univeristas newspaper: From study hall to sofa corner

As of now, students at the University of Oslo can download 150 000 e-books sitting in their own living rooms. The University of Oslo Library is going electronic.

2010-01-20 På norsk

– What´s new is that we have now got electronic literature that won´t demand special technology to be read, says Live Rasmussen, main librarian at the University of Oslo Library (UB).
Electronic literature has previously been shamed by limitations when it comes to printing, access and application. The new documents are free and available from every computer connected to the university´s network, and there are no limitations when it comes to printing.

Electronic pilot project

At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the pilot project «E-pensum» is starting these days. This means that six students in two different subjects will be given e-book devices containing all of their curriculum. At this point, there are possible plans for a similar project at the University of Oslo next autumn semester.
– If the plans are realized, we want to do them in a slightly larger scale, says Rasmussen.
Whether the plans are realized or not will be decided in the beginning of February.

In the library at BI Norwegian School of Management there are just below 100 titles available electronically, and non-fictional curriculum is one of the most important areas of commitment. Most of the most important titles, however, is not available as e-books yet. BI also fails to get rid of the user limitations that come with the e-books.
– It is possible to print the pages, but there are certain regulations that make the process a bit complicated, so printing is not something we do, says Kristin Danielsen, librarian at BI.

These limitations are, according to Danielsen, made by the publishers, and are beyond the libraries´ control.

Øyvind Bosnes Engen • Ketil Blom (foto) • Translated by Ingrid Flognfeldt Brubaker

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