Building A Corpus of Open Ancient Greek: New Ways to Learn, Teach, and Publish

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Muellner
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The Creation

Documents the history and rationale as well as the technology for the creation of an open online corpus of Ancient Greek texts, the Free First Thousand Years of Greek. Reveals the energy on a worldwide basis for building open data along with the boundless creativity around developing software tools for teaching, research, and publishing that exploit open data in ways that were impossible before.

Deploying Linked Open Data: Methodologies and Software Tools

2015 ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Konstantinou ◽  
Dimitrios-Emmanuel Spanos
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Linked Open Data

scholarly journals A reproducible picture of open access health facility data in Africa and R tools to support improvement

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Andy South ◽  
Ahmadou Dicko ◽  
Mark Herringer ◽  
Peter M. Macharia ◽  
Joseph Maina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Facility Location ◽  
Health Facility ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Location Data

Background: Open data on the locations and services provided by health facilities have, in some countries, allowed the development of software tools contributing to COVID-19 response. The UN and WHO encourage countries to make health facility location data open, to encourage use and improvement. We provide a summary of open access health facility location data in Africa using re-useable R code. We aim to support data analysts developing software tools to address COVID-19 response in individual countries. In Africa there are currently three main sources of such open data; 1) direct from national ministries of health, 2) a database for sub-Saharan Africa collated and published by a team from KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and now hosted by WHO, and 3) The Global Healthsites Mapping Project in collaboration with OpenStreetMap.      Methods: We searched for and documented official national facility location data that were openly available. We developed re-useable open-source R code to summarise and visualise facility location data by country from the three sources. This re-useable code is used to provide a web user interface allowing data exploration through maps and plots of facility type. Results: Out of 52 African countries, seven currently provide an official open facility list that can be downloaded and analysed reproducibly. Considering all three sources, there are over 185,000 health facility locations available for Africa. However, there are differences and overlaps between sources and a lack of data on capacities and service provision. Conclusions: These summaries and software tools can be used to encourage greater use of existing health facility location data, incentivise further improvements in the provision of those data by national suppliers, and encourage collaboration within wider data communities. The tools are a part of the afrimapr project, actively developing R building blocks to facilitate the use of health data in Africa.

Transformation of Entertainment Culture throughout Society and History

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ebru Karadogan Ismayılov ◽  
Gozde Sunal
Keyword(s):  
Basic Needs ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Important Data ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Industry Needs ◽  
Entertainment Culture

Since the Ancient Greek period when labor was underestimated and entertainment drew the line between slaves and masters, changes in society and entertainment have followed parallel routes. In 17th century, individual entertainment was freed from the rules of religion, art was materialized and gained a deceptive dimension for the audience. The mood of boredom, which is experienced by the individual whose basic needs are satisfied, is an important data for the culture industry. Needs that do not exist in reality are created by the professionals of different disciplines through extensive and complementary activities. The culture industry captures the individual who is trying to get rid of the effects of business in a freed and undefended conscious and guides him/her according to its own ideology. Thus, methods of entertainment play an important role in the creation of current relations of hegemony and a subtle camouflage of its logic of work. This is explored in this chapter.

Archaeology in the home: neoclassical ceramics for new audiences in mid-nineteenth-century Britain

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Paul Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Transfer Printing ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ceramics Industry ◽  
Material Evidence

Abstract For audiences not familiar with antiquity, the shattering of the Portland Vase at the British Museum in 1845 raised awareness of a classical past which was claimed by many European nations as their cultural heritage. This article explores how the British ceramics industry quickly exploited a ready market, prompted by such interest. A new genre of wares was produced industrially, mainly in Stoke-on-Trent until the 1870s, although manufacture continued sporadically until 1900. Modern techniques, including moulding and transfer-printing, allowed the creation of versions of black- and red-figure ancient Greek ceramics, sometimes in vivid polychrome. Hitherto largely overlooked by museums and standard histories of ceramics, the material evidence of this fashion endures. Although the resulting artefacts were often marketed without reference to their origins in antiquity, an argument is presented here for their having more than merely decorative significance.

An architecture proposal for the creation of a database to open data related to ITS in smart cities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio A. A. Barbosa ◽  
George Leite ◽  
Andre S. Oliveira ◽  
Telmo O. de Jesus ◽  
Douglas D. J. de Macedo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
The Creation

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body (Matthew 6.22–23=Luke 11.34–36)

1987 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale C. Allison
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Similar Nature ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
Human Eye ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The most significant recent contribution to the understanding of Matt 6. 22–23 (= Luke 11. 34–36: Q) comes from Hans Dieter Betz. In his article on ‘Matthew vi.22f. and ancient Greek theories of Vision’ Betz claims to find in the pre-Socratics, in Plato, and in Philo the clues by which the enigmatic logion about the eye as the lamp of the body can best be elucidated. He directs attention to the following texts in particular: (1) Plato, Timaeus 45B–46A. In discussing the creation of the human body by the gods, Plato speaks of the ‘light-bearing eyes’(φωσφόραμματα), and he asserts that, within the human eye, there is a type of fire, a fire which does not burn but is, as Bury translates, ‘mild’. When we see, this fire, which is both ‘pure’ (είλıκρωές) and ‘within us’ (έντòς ὴμῶν), flows through the eyes and out into the world, where it meets the light of day. Now since like is attracted to like, the light of the eyes coalesces with the light of day, forming one stream of substance. And then, to quote Plato, ‘This substance, having all become similar in its properties because of its similar nature, distributes the motions of every object it touches, or whereby it is touched, throughout all the body, even unto the soul, and brings about the sensation which we term seeing.’ In fine, we see because we have within us a light that streams forth through our eyes.

Efficient Creation of Augmented Reality Content by Using an Intuitive Authoring System

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Matysczok ◽  
Peter Ebbesmeyer ◽  
Holger Krumm ◽  
Jo¨rg Maciej
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Authoring System ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Augmented Reality Application ◽  
Augmented Reality Technology ◽  
The Creation ◽  
User Friendly

Recent advances have shown, that the base technology of augmented reality have matured the point of being usable only by specialists. But existing augmented reality applications are still prototypes. They are developed without any authoring system, only by software experts. To support the wide use of augmented reality technology, the designers of augmented reality application need methods and software tools to create the contents in a fast and cheap way. In this paper we describe an authoring system for creating augmented reality content in an easy and user friendly way. The system allows the creation of augmented reality applications in a straight forward way. By using meta-constructs like menus, selection lists or hotspots as well as illustration objects like 3D-models, videos, texts and sounds a variety of applications can be created without previous technological knowledge. A preview window is also part of the authoring system displaying the actual created AR-application.

scholarly journals Evaluation of using digital gravity field models for zoning map creation

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dmitry Loginov
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Field ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Digital Models ◽  
Geophysical Field ◽  
Noise Component ◽  
Gravity Field Model ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Models Of Gravity ◽  
Gravity Field Models

At the present time the digital cartographic models of geophysical fields are taking a special significance into geo-physical mapping. One of the important directions to their application is the creation of zoning maps, which allow taking into account the morphology of geophysical field in the implementation automated choice of contour intervals. The purpose of this work is the comparative evaluation of various digital models in the creation of integrated gravity field zoning map. For comparison were chosen the digital model of gravity field of Russia, created by the analog map with scale of 1 : 2 500 000, and the open global model of gravity field of the Earth – WGM2012. As a result of experimental works the four integrated gravity field zoning maps were obtained with using raw and processed data on each gravity field model. The study demonstrates the possibility of open data use to create integrated zoning maps with the condition to eliminate noise component of model by processing in specialized software systems. In this case, for solving problem of contour intervals automated choice the open digital models aren’t inferior to regional models of gravity field, created for individual countries. This fact allows asserting about universality and independence of integrated zoning maps creation regardless of detail of a digital cartographic model of geo-physical fields.

Open data and the XML community

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Cagle
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Data Standards ◽  
Important Data ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Restful Services

The world of XML is changing. Large “super schemas” like OOXML, XBRL, NIEMs, HL7, and so on, push the limits of existing XML software, while also encouraging the creation of ecosystems built around them, in order to exploit the large quantities of important data now or soon to be available in these formats. Standardization around these formats is driven less by existing proprietary formats and less by industry consortia than by government adoption. The super schemas are often formulated less as definitions of single concrete vocabularies than as meta-definitions of families of vocabularies. The confluence of emerging Open Data standards, the government-as-database conjecture, and a shift towards RESTful services will serve to turbocharge the XML community.

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