Friday Varia and Quick Hits

A flurry-y Friday morning in a toasty warm office offers this quick hits:

• The American School of Classical Studies at Athens has announced their digital library. This is huge news for anyone interested in the archaeology and history of Greece and Athens and Corinth in particular. This is relevant to my post (and paper) here. And you can check out both David Pettegrew's Corinth Notebook and Carl Blegen at Zygourias.
• Apparently, huge, modern churches don't have to be ugly in Cyprus! A novel idea!
• A huge day (almost 100 hits) and brilliant post on Teaching Thursday yesterday. If you haven't checked it out, now is the time!
• Begin to get excited about the University of North Dakota's Writers Conference.
• More public history type musing here.
• What do people think about Google Buzz?
• More on the economic crisis in Greece and some on how this is being viewed in Cyprus.
• Only rain can slow down Australia!

Comments

[Guy Sanders]

I have been pushing for this for this since 1997 and when the opportunity to apply for EU funds arose, jumped on on it because Bruce Harzler over in the Agora started after us and had managed to get so far ahead with PHI funding. When we got ahead of them, they received funding to digitize their resources systematically which will start very soon. With a password you can access over 700,000 images and records and since the Agora and we are both pretty much born digital, many more records will become available every year. The data is a bit dirty but rather than wait we put out ugly rather than wait for years and give a clean product. Others have expressed an interest in mapping their material with ours so that will add reams more.