[open-archaeology] Open Journal of Archaeometry - Open Access

Mon Jun 28 22:15:19 UTC 2010

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This looks like a really exciting project :-)

Best, L.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Just a quick note to say that this is *amazing* news. Rufus, Stefano
> and I were just talking about this project and its great to hear that
> you will be opening up!
>
> Any chance of a brief guest post on the OKF blog once this is out the door?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Eleanor Robson <er264 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Dear Stefano and colleagues,
>>
>> thanks for your patience and persistence! The short answer is yes, we are
>> still very interested. I'm sorry for the long silence, but we've had a good
>> excuse: shortly after my initial meeting with Rufus, my group decided that
>> we should rebrand (as we kept being confused with another, less open project
>> with a similar name) and also use that opportunity to have a massive
>> rationalisation of our file structure, programming, documentation, etc.,
>> etc. which should finally be finished and go public at the end of this
>> month.
>>
>> Our new name is Oracc (the Open, Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus) and you
>> can find us at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ There's still a bit of
>> housekeeping and tidying up do (including CC at-sa licenses to add). But --
>> as I hope will be obvious from our new name -- one of the things we wanted
>> to do was to be much more explicit about our commitment to openness; I still
>> need to make that a bit clearer in our
>> http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/osc-about.html with, most obviously, a link to
>> you guys and the Open Knowledge Definition.
>>
>> In short, we're pretty much ready to go now, give or take a few tweaks, and
>> to get more involved in bigger things (within our means of course: there are
>> just the three of us  -- me in Cambridge, Steve in Philadelphia and Niek at
>> Berkeley -- and we all do this unfunded, on top of full-time teaching and
>> research, like many of you do too, I guess).
>>
>> All best,
>>
>>
>> Eleanor
>> --
>> Dr Eleanor Robson
>> Reader in Ancient Middle Eastern Science
>> Department of History and Philosophy of Science
>> Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, UK
>> work:  +44 1223 334 555; mobile: +44 7962 034861
>> http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/robson/
>> er264 at cam.ac.uk
>>
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>> On 22 Jun 2010, at 14:51, Stefano Costa wrote:
>>
>>> Il giorno dom, 14/03/2010 alle 17.49 +0000, Eleanor Robson ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Thank you all very much for your continued interest. OKF is on the
>>>> agenda for the next CDL Steering Group Meeting, on Friday evening --
>>>> our first since I met Rufus a few weeks back.
>>>
>>> Eleanor,
>>> are there any news about the Cuneiform Digital Library interest in open
>>> knowledge ?
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Stefano
>>>
>>> (CC'ing open-archaeology)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stefano Costa
>>>
>>> Coordinator, Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
>>> http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology
>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>> http://www.okfn.org · http://opendefinition.org/
>>
>>
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