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… as in “NOT!” Smiley (Don’t forget, though, that there is an initial speech recognition layer in this demo which seems to have become almost transparent as a technology now? See Gartner’s hype cycle of 2014.)

Categories: English, German, Translation, translation-software Tags: machine-translation, skype, speech-recognition

Arachne, online database for archaeology

2014/08/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

“ARACHNE is the free [account creation required] object database of DAI and the Institut of Classical Archaeology in Cologne. It provides more than 1 Million images of finds, architecture and excavations with meta information as well as digitised historical literature” (http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Services/Online-Services: Find more information and help on this page). Example of Advanced Search start choice page:

Continue with Einzelmotive (singular motifs) (gets you back into an English interface also – the field-specific explanation on the right certainly helps):

There is auto-search completion/suggestion, however, it seems to work only for German, and very eclectic:

2011-07-08_BILD0047b Stitch (5000x3941)

Beats having to plaster your surroundings with photos for making your own panoramas. Smiley

Categories: digital-humanities, erepository, Greek (ancient), Latin, learning-materials, websites Tags: archeology, links, uni-koeln.de

How to use Remote Desktop Connection Manager for computer lab access instead of having to manage faculty computers

2014/08/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

We have conflicting needs for a language technology software environment: diversity, simplicity, quality, manageability. We use of software configuration management tools like TEM. However, we are sitting between an extremely diverse user base (supporting 17 languages) in our unit and a central IT support with a diverse base of units to support.
Enter MSTSC, facilitated by Remote Desktop Connection Manager: . If your LRC allows for MSTSC access, consider providing faculty access to a LRC computers via Remote Desktop.
this is for us a great time saver, compared with maintaining subsets of software on subsets of faculty computers that are as similar to the configuration of the subset software on LRC computers as possible,
while for faculty at the same time a realistic test bed what it will be like to operate LRC computers during class.
We provide access to a subset (which is easily set and edited in the RDG file loaded into Remote Desktop Connection Manager, which is stored on a shared network drive so that we can update the connection files without disruption of faculty access should there be network changes) since we teach faculty not to log out currently logged in users when they try to connect, but rather choose another computer from the subset that is free to not. We exclude computers used in classes where we frequently have high-stakes exams. We also have high-stakes assignments (using Respondus Lockdown browser)
we put a shortcut to the Remote Desktop Connection Manager on the start menu or desktop.
Our computer numbering scheme is simple enough for faculty to navigate – besides, since we connect only to the uniform LRC PC environment, it does not matter.