IOSA.it Open Archaeology

From PastThinking:

Last week, Framework Archaeology launched an update to their Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website. The update includes an improved version of their (Windows only) free GIS that allows you to explore the hard archaeological data collected during “Perry Oaks” phase of the investigations.

Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics.

The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and developing open resources of world cultural heritage, has just announced an “Open Archaeology

Please take some minutes to read the petition for public geodata on http://publicgeodata.org and if you feel that you agree with the arguments of the petition, sign it and spread the message. Thank you.

The STOA Consortium is a blog-based web portal whose goal is "Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere" as said in their mission statement. Stolen from their about page, they intend:

• to foster a new style of refereed scholarly publications in the humanities not only of interest to specialists but also -- and just as importantly -- accessible by design and choice of medium to wide public audiences.
• to develop and refine new models for scholarly collaboration via the internet.
• to help insure the long-term interoperability and archival availability of electronic materials.
• to support resolutions to copyright and other issues as they arise in the course of scholarly electronic publication.

It seems great, and because I just love back-linking, I put a link here so that everyone can come and see. Wait, these are not our goals, but we believe that such things are very important too and

The Open Access News Blog, mantained by Peter Suber. is a primary resource about the Open Access movement, updated every day with lots of news from all over the world. The main purpose of Suber is to promote Open Access for science and scholarship literature, as said in a statement "Scholarly literature ought to be free and online".
There is also a newsletter to keep you up-to-date and discover in its depth the Open Access movement and its struggle for freedom.

Science depends upon the ability to observe, learn from, and test the work of others. Without effective access to data, materials and publications, the scientific enterprise becomes impossible.
The goal of Science Commons is to encourage stakeholders to create areas of free access and inquiry using standardized licenses and other means: a 'Science Commons' built out of voluntary private agreements.