Archive for January, 2009

Free the facts

21Jan09

Dave Gray has a nice Flickr slideshow up about research and open access.

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Using reCAPTCHA to help digitize books

10Jan09

We’ve reactivated reCAPTCHA on our new domain. CAPTCHAs are the distorted images found on registration forms that help determine whether a user is a human or a computer program, such as a spam bot. Carnegie Mellon’s reCAPTCHA takes this function to a new level by using human-generated inputs to help digitize old books.
As recaptcha.net explains, [...]

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New .info domain

08Jan09

On Monday, we acquired phylo.info and moved the site over to our new domain. We still own phylosophy.net and all requests to our old domain will be redirected to our new one (seamlessly, as far as I can tell).
.info is one of the more popular generic top-level domains released in 2000. It is intended for “informative [...]

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Benjamin Rand’s Bibliography of Philosophy

05Jan09

I just got my hands on Benjamin Rand’s 1905 Bibliography of Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognate Subjects. Rand lists roughly 60,000 books, articles, and reviews that were available in his time, and provides nearly exhaustive coverage of the nineteenth-century literature.
Rand’s Bibliography will be crucial for us as we expand our dataset backwards. How we’ll parse the vagaries [...]

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