Showing posts with label ancient greece. Show all posts
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17 June 2008

Whatever Happened to Greek Civilisation?

You probably don't care much about the Greek National Land Registry unless you're Greek or have land in Greece, but I think we can all be saddened by the following from its site:

Η εφαρμογή είναι διαθέσιμη αποκλειστικά για Internet Explorer.

[Google Translate: The application is available exclusively for Internet Explorer.]

So much for Neelie's open standards.
(Via Linux Format Greece.)

22 January 2007

Will the Pleiades Be an Open (Content) Cluster?

According to Wikipedia:

The Pleiades (also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters) is the name of an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest to the Earth of all open clusters, probably the best known and certainly the most striking to the naked eye.

So let's hope the this exciting new Pleiades is also fully open:

Built atop the open-source Plone Content Management System and hosted by the Stoa Consortium, Pleiades will provide on-line access to all information about Greek and Roman geography assembled by the Classical Atlas Project for the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (R. Talbert, ed., Princeton, 2000. Pleiades will also enable large-scale collaboration in order to maintain and diversify this dataset. Combining open-content approaches (like those used by Wikipedia) with academic-style editorial review, Pleiades will enable anyone — from university professors to casual students of antiquity — to suggest updates to geographic names, descriptive essays, bibliographic references and geographic coordinates. Once vetted for accuracy and pertinence, these suggestions will become a permanent, author-attributed part of future AWMC publications and data services.

(Via Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog.)