Dear Gabby,
Thanks for your input. I hadn't known about Amanda French's calendar,
which is exactly the type of foundation I was looking for. No need, in my
opinion, do more than contribute to this one. But how well known and
supported is it? I didn't even find it on Amanda's website. The only
organization I found to advertise the calendar was ADHO
(digitalhumanities.org), and there it was only a link, not embedded. (ADHO
seems a bit behind the curve, too: their front page advertises as
"upcoming" two events from 2010!)
In the interest of pointing wiki visitors in the right direction, I found
a very dusty (i.e. unlinked and unedited-in-years) page...
http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Current_events
...and cleaned it up to be the main pointer for events. I tried to use the
<iframe> element to embed French's ADHO calendar, but the wiki software
didn't like that. If you figure out a way to embed the calendar, great.
Maybe it could be put at the bottom of the London events page?
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html
For the bibliography point you raise, I've started the relevant category
page (the category was already there, but it didn't have a dedicated page
or explanation):
http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Bibliography
I wonder if the efforts of Jones and Acheson could be marshaled. I notice
their sidebar on their NetworkedBlog foresees, eventually, a wiki to be
the home for their finds. Why not combine forces?
http://www.networkedblogs.com/blog/ancient_world_open_bibliographies
To add to the list of desiderata for administrative development on the
wiki: wouldn't it be neat to take Romanello's zotero group, agree to use
tags that correspond to categories in the wiki, then set up a filter at
the bottom of each category page on the wiki to automatically import from
the Zotero API all relevant items? I know, there are too many great things
to do, all fighting for our attention. Lunch now has priority for me.
Best wishes,
jk
--
Joel Kalvesmaki
Editor in Byzantine Studies
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St. NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 339-6435
On 6/23/12 8:44 AM, "Gabriel Bodard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Joel,
>
>Many thanks for this call to arms! I think I agree with pretty much
>everything you suggest, but just for historical context I'll reply to
>some of your points individually:
>
>On 21 June 2012 22:01, Kalvesmaki, Joel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Is there any reason to keep "Resources" as a main entry on the left
>>sidebar? The
>> term is vague and the content of the page it points to seems to be
>>aged, formless,
>> and disjointed.
>
>That's true. We originally planned to build a bibliography of Digital
>Classics and that wiki page represents a very early and, as you say,
>disjointed and out-of-date attempt at starting that. A much better way
>to do this would be through an online bibliography of some kind,
>perhaps the Zotero group that (iirc) Matteo started up a couple years
>ago. Should we just link directly to that? (Along with a reminder to
>people to contribute to it.) Otherwise I agree that this link should
>be removed, because what it currently points to is not much use.
>
>> Any chance we could get the statistics page to focus not on aggregate
>>page views
>> but on something more useful for authors and editors, something like
>>top pages by
>> week, month, and year? What about other metrics? That would let us see
>>what's hot
>
>I don't think I'd ever looked at the stats page before! I agree that
>it doesn't seem much use, but customizing it would require some
>administrative intervention that we're not currently in a position to
>carry out. I'll keep it in mind for when we have more resources
>available though.
>
>> The Events entry links to a page off the wiki, one that cannot be
>>edited (as far as I can
>> see): http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html Any chance we
>>could migrate this > to a Google calendar (or similar) that can be
>>populated directly by editors?
>
>Yes. This link is to the Digital Classicist program itself, which is
>(a) where we keep all the London seminar timetables and downloads, and
>(b) will include links to the other DC seminars in Berlin, Göttingen,
>Leipzig, New York, Boston etc. as they become available. I think we
>should keep this link (although perhaps more usefully named).
>
>If someone wanted to create a Google Calendar specifically with
>Digital Classics events, we'd be happy to link to that as well,
>however. I think to make this work would require a commitment on the
>part of the editor(s) both to keep it active, and to encourage as many
>other users as possible to contribute to it. Genuine question: how
>much would such a calendar overlap with/differ from the Digital
>Humanities/Digital Libraries calendar at
><https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=g2hval0pee3rmrv4f3n9hp9cok%40gr
>oup.calendar.google.com>?
>If simply adding several DC-obsessed new editors to that calendar
>would do the job, I would strongly recommend doing that. (But that
>decision of course lies with whoever's actually going to take
>responsibility to do this.)
>
>> Finally, fellow editors, please populate the wiki. Numerous projects
>>that I've seen
>...
>>you're not an editor please sign up to become one. This wiki has great
>>potential, but
>> has a long way to go. (Wouldn't it be amazing, for example, to see
>>Babeu's fantastic
>> 2010 report on classical tools ["Rome wasn't digitized in a day"] fully
>>integrated?)
>
>Amen. And while I'm here, many thanks to Joel who has made dozens of
>edits in the last few days. He should be an inspiration to us all!
>
>Best,
>
>Gabby
>
>--
>Dr Gabriel BODARD
>(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
>
>Centre for Computing in the Humanities
>King's College London
>26-29 Drury Lane
>London WC2B 5RL
>
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