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Talcott Garland is a successful law professor, devoted father, and husband of a beautiful and ambitious woman, whose future desires may threaten the family he holds so dear. When Talcott's father, Judge Oliver Garland, a disgraced former Supreme Court nominee, is found dead under suspicioius circumstances, Talcott wonders if he may have been murdered. Guided by the elements of a mysterious puzzle that his father left, Talcott must risk his marriage, his career and even his life in his quest for justice.
Superbly written and filled with memorable characters, The Emperor of Ocean Park is both a stunning literary achievement and a grand literary entertainment.
2. How does Carter build and sustain suspense throughout the novel? What are the several mysteries Talcott is trying to solve? What discoveries does he make—about his father, his wife, his brother, Jack Ziegler, Justice Wainwright, and others—over the course of the novel? What effect do these discoveries have on him?
3. The issue of race is a recurrent theme in The Emperor of Ocean Park. What is Talcotts attitude toward race? In what instances is he subject to racial stereotyping? What observations does he make about the white liberal racism he encounters on campus? What racial hypocrisies does he see in his fellow blacks?
4. At the Judges funeral, Aunt Alma cryptically tells Talcott that he has "the chance to make everything right. . . . You can fix it. . . . But your daddy will let you know what to do when the time comes" [p. 24]. Like Hamlet, Talcott is charged by his father, beyond the grave, to set things right. In what other ways is Talcott a Hamlet-like character? In what ways must he both fulfill and transcend his fathers demands?
5. What makes Jack Ziegler such a frightening character? In what ways is he more than a mere villain? In what sense is he, as Talcott says, the "author" of the Garland familys misery?
6. Talcotts cousin Sally tells him: "You think youre so different from Uncle Oliver, but youre just like him. In some good ways, sure, but in some of the worst ways, too. You look down your nose at people you think are your moral inferiors. People like your brother. People like me" [p. 270]. Is she right? In what other ways is Talcott like his father? How is he different from him?
7. What role do the chess problems play in the novel? How do they lead Talcott to uncover his fathers "arrangements"? How are they related to issues of race and power? In what sense is Talcott himself a pawn?
8. When a man calls his house asking for his wife, Talcott thinks: "Odd the way the immediate concerns about a dying marriage can knock worries about torture and murder and mysterious chess pieces right out of the box, but priorities are funny that way" [p. 453]. In what ways is the story of Talcott and Kimmers failing marriage—and the larger story of the complex relations in the Garland family—more important than the murder mystery? How are his marital problems related to the mystery he is trying to solve?
9. The Emperor of Ocean Park describes a social milieu rarely seen in American fiction: the black middle class. What does the novel tell us about the highly successful people who make up this class? How are they different from African Americans more commonly encountered in modern and contemporary fiction?
10. Late in the novel, "a wave of fatalism" sweeps over Talcott and he wonders "whether I could have done anything differently, or if, once the Judge died, setting his awful plan in motion, and Jack Ziegler showed up demanding to know the arrangements, everything else was fixed. Whether my marriage, even, was doomed from the day of the funeral" [p. 533]. Is the story fated to end as it does or could Talcott have changed its outcome? What might he have done differently?
11. The Emperor of Ocean Park is not merely a thriller, but also an extended critique of American culture, commenting on issues of family, religion, law, education, race, marriage, wealth, and politics. What do the frequent philosophical digressions add to the novel? What beliefs and values does Talcott Garland try to live by?
12. During a dinner-table argument, Dr. Young asserts that Satan "always attacks us in the same ways. . . . He attacks us with sexual desire and other temptations that distract the body. He attacks us with drink and drugs and other temptations that addle the brain. He attacks us with racial hatred and love of money and other temptations that distort the soul" [p. 346]. How does this perspective illuminate the behavior of the major characters in the novel? Who gives in to the temptations that Dr. Young describes in this speech? Who resists them?
13. How do Talcotts relationships with his family—with his father, his sister, his brother, his wife, and his son—change over the course of the novel?
14. When Talcott retells the story of how he and his future wife had gotten out of the Burial Ground by crawling through a drainage tunnel, he writes: "Some metaphors need no interpretation" [p. 515]. Is the meaning of this metaphor obvious? How should the escape from the cemetery be interpreted? How is the Burial Ground itself important to the novels plot?
15. As the Judges secret life is revealed, Dana Worth, a woman who had always admired Oliver Garland, tells Talcott: "I dont want to say he was evil . . . but he wasnt just deluded, either" [p. 615]. How should the Judge finally be judged? What drove him to do what he did? Are his actions understandable? Forgivable?
16. When he delivers the eulogy at Theo Mountains funeral, Talcott breaks down weeping. "I suppose people think I was crying over Theo. Maybe I was, a little. But, mainly, I was crying over all the good things that will never be again, and the way the Lord, when you least expect it, forces you to grow up" [p. 620]. What are the "good things" Talcott mourns the loss of here? In what ways has the Lord forced him to "grow up"? How have the events of the novel changed him?
"Beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven through a fine legal thriller." —John Grisham
The introduction, discussion questions, author biography, and suggested reading list that follow are designed to enhance your groups reading of Stephen L. Carters eagerly anticipated and hugely ambitious first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park.
Q: You have written numerous works of acclaimed non-fiction. What inspired you to write a novel and where did you get the idea for The Emperor of Ocean Park?
A: When I was a child, I dreamed of writing fiction, and I suppose the idea has always been in the back of my mind. In the case of The Emperor of Ocean Park, I would have to say that the characters came to me long before the story did. Most of the major people in the book sprang into my mind, almost fully developed, many years ago. In boxes in my bedroom and my study, I still have dusty, dog-eared drafts of earlier efforts to render the same set of characters in several very different stories.
Some of those early stories were lighter than the one I ended up with, and some were quite a bit more dreary. The characters themselves were up in arms. I'm not sure just when I hit upon the story in its final form. I can say, however, that the characters themselves continued to pester me until I came up with a way for them to present their various tales.
Q: What kinds of research—into the Senate confirmation process, the workings of the FBI, the Federal and Supreme Courts, the political lobbying behind judgeships—inform this novel?
A: Although I wouldn't say I planned it this way, many of the subjects in the novel that require expertise are matters about which I have written non-fiction books and essays. For example, a few years ago, I published a book about the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices, and much of what I learned in the course of that project informed this one. Similarly I have written a lot about being black and middle class in America.
But some of what might look real in the book is fiction. And some of what looks like fiction is real.
Q: You have been careful to remind readers that this is a work of fiction—that Talcott Garland, law professor, is not an alter-ego for Stephen Carter, law professor. That said, do you identify with Talcott in any special way?
A: I have had a lot of trouble persuading people that Talcott's story isn't autobiographical, or that the Garland family is not my own, but there is really very little overlap in the life experiences of me and my family, versus Talcott and his.
I'm flattered that people find my characters so realistic that they assume they must be based on real people. But they're not. Like most writers, I hope that readers will find something familiar in all the major characters. Still, the characters are all inventions, and, often, I myself did not know them very well until the book was complete.
I should add that there is absolutely no similarity (other than the facts that both are black and very accomplished) between Talcott's difficult wife, Kimmer, and the wonderful woman I have been blessed to be married to for more than twenty years.
Q: Chess plays a role in this novel. Are you a big chess player? How much research into this topic—specifically "chess problems"—did you do? How does the novel parallel an actual game of chess?
A: I love chess, absolutely love it. I am a life member of the United States Chess Federation. I play less chess now than I did when I was younger, except online at the Internet Chess Club, where I try to visit several times a week. Although I have never been anything more than an amateur in playing strength, I remain a great fan of the game, its players, its history, and its endless possibilities.
The integration of chess into the novel required me to learn about a part of the chess world less familiar to me, the world of the chess problemist, where composers work for months or years to set up challenging positions for others to solve. Fortunately, I had some help from a columnist for a leading chess magazine in making sure that I made as few errors as possible in the way I described this world in the book.
(Incidentally, the fact the number of chapters in the book is the same as the number of squares on a chessboard is a coincidence.)
Q: This is an amazingly intricate plot—full of well developed characters, locations, and multi-leveled conspiracies. How do you craft a novel like this? What is your writing process?
A: Lots of late nights and long walks! Lots and lots of talks with my wife, who read endless drafts and helped me avoid some really bad ideas. And lots of online chess to relax and clear the mind.
I should add that I have come to agree with the many writers who insist that once you get the characters right, the story writes itself. Even in this era when so much fiction tends to be plot-driven, I think believable characters must come first. But they tend to take on lives of their own. I was occasionally surprised by the messes my characters got themselves into, and the indignant, presumptuous way that they demanded that I write a way for them to escape!
Q: In addition to being a novel of suspense and intrigue, The Emperor of Ocean Park is also a novel about families—the things that bring them together and tear them apart; the secrets they keep from one another and the rest of the world; the legacies they pass from one generation to the next. What made you want to explore the idea of family and how did you begin to imagine this fascinating Garland family?
A: Families, nuclear and extended, have always fascinated me. But I cannot begin to explain where the Garlands came from. I think I had the name first, then the Judge, and then it seemed right that he should have children, and that their relationships should be complex and stormy. (In another story that I attempted, the Judge was a White House aide; I also tried him out as a professor; but, in the end, only the judicial role really fit.)
The tale of the family's origin came to me before I quite knew which of several possible stories of the Garland family to tell. I experimented with several possible narrative voices, and several different ages for the characters, before settling into a voice that was a comfortable one, even if it was so unlike my own.
Indeed, that was probably the hardest part of the project: sustaining the narrative voice of Talcott Garland, who sees the world so differently than I do. Imagining the family that whirls around him helped me to visualize life as he understands it.
Q: Did you intentionally set out to explore the issue of race in this novel?
A: I don't think it is possible to write a realistic story about the black experience in America without race—and racism, real or suspected—being a part of that story. There was no need to invent situations in which to explore the problem; once the characters and settings were developed, the tensions that would inevitably arise seemed to me to be obvious.
At the same time, I do not think Emperor is a novel that is mostly about race, and I do not for a moment want any reader to think I see race as a constraint on either the freedom of the characters or my own freedom to create a world for them to live in. I am less interested in how racism influences their lives than how their own strengths and weaknesses do.
Q: This novel has many relationships—familial, marital, and professional—that are destroyed by ambition. Is this novel in some ways a cautionary tale?
A: Definitely. Ambition lies near the heart of the individualism that can be so destructive to the solid values of family and community that make a nation great. All of us have seen people and families sacrificed for the sake of someone else's career.
Yet I am also interested in the virtues that might enable us to withstand the tug of constant advancement. The one who dies with the most toys doesn't really win, and neither does the one who dies with the best resume. The one who has the strongest relationships with family and friends probably doesn't win, either (because life shouldn't be about winning), but, as I hope the novel makes clear, he or she does have a more successful life. And the virtue of faith—of following God, of recognizing our obligations to a source higher than our own will—seems to me the most powerful antidote to the pressure to build resume points.
So I have peopled the novel with characters, like Talcott and his friend Dana Worth, who struggle to find their faith, as well as others, like Rob Saltpeter and Morris Young, for whom faith is already a solid, implacable fact. And then there are the many more, like Kimmer Madison (Talcott's wife) and Marc Hadley (his colleague), for whom the careerist drive dominates.
Q: Religion plays a role in The Emperor of Ocean Park—especially the idea of letting forgiveness come before revenge. As someone who has always been interested in religion in the modern age, was this an idea you set out to explore or something that arose over the course of the story?
A: I myself am a believing Christian, so it would be surprising if Emperor were uninformed by my faith, just as it would be surprising if it were uninformed by my race. And, certainly, much of my non-fiction work has dealt with the application of religion to everyday life. But I did not set out to write about religion. Again, the characters came to me first. The details of their different religious understandings, their different visions of obligation to God, slowly arose and found their way into the story.
I included both an aggressive atheist and an aggressive Christian evangelical, for instance, not because I was engaged in some search for balance, but because the characters suggested themselves and I found a fit.
Q: Talcott remembers distinctly his father's advice to draw a line between the present and the past and then choose the side you want to live on. Good advice?
A: I think it's good advice up to a point, but, like most good advice, should be taken in moderation. I meant for the father's "wisdom," which Talcott recalls at various points in the book to be ironic, even platitudinous, although always containing a grain of truth.
Talcott tells us several times that his father urged the children to draw a line and put the past on one side and the present on the other, which is probably excellent advice if, for example, one is trying to forget a painful love affair. But it is not a rule that should be applied to all situations. Surely the great lesson of the century just behind us is that we should immerse ourselves in the past—not because people in the past were wiser or greater than we, but because there are vital lessons, of what to do and what to avoid, hidden away in history.
So, for example, the difficult moment in which we are now living has historical antecedents. By studying that past, we can learn about our troubling present.
Q: Did you find it difficult to make the transition from writing non-fiction to writing a novel?
A: The process is so very different. The long walks are the same, and so is the need to craft every sentence with care. But I was accustomed to resting my arguments on a rock in my other writing that was missing when I sat down to write a novel: footnotes. With non-fiction, the author, challenged about the plausibility of a particular event, can say, "Well, that's just the way it happened!" Many a novelist will say the same thing, but I am a little uneasy, because what I really mean is, "That's just the way I invented it!"
At first I found this change unsettling, but I have come to appreciate the particular freedom it grants, and the limits of that freedom. Art, I have finally remembered, is as important a human virtue as science.
Q: So what is next? Will we see another novel? More of the Garlands?
A: The next novel is well underway. All I am prepared to say about it, however, is that some of the characters from Emperor reappear. And that I'll probably be taking more long walks!
I also have a number of non-fiction projects in the works. I still see myself first and foremost as a law professor and legal scholar. But if I have written a story that people enjoy reading, if they are satisfied when they are done, yet sorry that it ended, if it diverts them for a while from present tragedies, I will be happy and grateful.
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Yesterday's UCLA-Texas game from Reliant Stadium in Houston was billed as a battle between two college basketball heavyweights. For the 2,797 who showed up (it was, we hear, even less than that in reality) it was instead a bout between lousy squads that are but a shadow of the competitive teams they once were.
In the end, UCLA pulled out a 65-63 victory. Things might have been different if not for this five-point turnaround after a missed Julien Lewis layup—one that sent Dick Vitale off a cliff of good-natured criticism. The loss dropped Texas to 5-4, and Rick Barnes's road won't get any easier—they have games coming up against Michigan State and North Carolina. [ESPN]

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Ok, I have spent to long trying to figure out what is keeping my code from printing both HiFive and Georgia for the right integer put in. Here is my assignment as it was given to me:
3. (10 pts) Write a program that prompts the user to enter an integer. If the number is a multiple of 5, print HiFive. If the number is divisible by 2 or 3, print Georgia. Here are the sample runs:
<Output> Enter an integer: 6
<End Output>
<Output> Enter an integer: 15
HiFive Georgia
<End Output>
<Output> Enter an integer: 25
<End Output>
Here is my code I have now, Everything is working fine other then when I try the integer 15 it fails to give me both HiFive and Georgia since they are both multiple of 5 and happen to be divisible by 3 as well. My code as follows:
// Unit 1 Assignment - #3
import java.util.Scanner;
public class HiFiveInteger {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Ask for an integer
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Enter an integer: ");
int num1 = input.nextInt();
// Check if multiple of 5
if (num1 % 5 == 0)
// Check if integer is divisible by 2 or 3
else if (num1 % 2 == 0
|| num1 % 3 == 0)
Thank you very much in advance this is my first Java class and I am really enjoying it so far, I am also really liking this forum, I stumbled across it tonight and will be reading it daily.


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Mum of girl with premature ageing condition says her biggest fear is 'burying my baby'
Ashanti suffers from the rare premature ageing condition, progeria. But medics weren't always so sure...
Ashanti suffers from the rare premature ageing condition, progeria. But medics weren't always so sure...
You need only take a glance at Ashanti Elliott-Smith to know that she doesn't look like most little girls. However, her mum Phoebe explains that when Ashanti was born, they thought she was 'a normal, perfect baby'. But doctors knew there was something wrong with her. Despite being tested for a variety of problems – including shaken-baby syndrome and meningitis – the experts couldn't explain what was the matter.
He's a little man with a big personality
Kenadie is tougher than she looks
In this touching video, made when Ashanti was 7, Phoebe reveals the torment of not knowing what was wrong with her baby – and how she demanded a diagnosis from doctors.
Having been referred to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital just before her first birthday, within a couple of hours premature ageing condition progeria had been identified, and tests confirmed it.
When asked about her hopes and fears for Ashanti's future, doting mum Phoebe admits her biggest fear is 'burying my baby' – and as for hopes, like most mums, she can't help but picture her daughter on her wedding day.


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Article authored by Freda Bernotavicz, in Voume 7, no. 1, 2013 of Training and Development in Human Services, the journal of the National Staff Development and Training Association.
This article is based on an on-line module on Coaching Strategies for Supervisors that is part of a national training program funded by the Children's Bureau/US DHHS/ACF under the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI), Award #90CT0145.This article is solely the responsibility of the NCWWI and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Children's Bureau.
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This really is a match made in heaven. F-Response is really slick from a remote…
Attacking Webmail User Accounts
Webmail is absolutely everywhere. I rarely come across a corporate network that doesn't have Outlook Web Access, Groupwise, or some other variant of webmail listening. Being able to get at email accounts from the Internet can save employees a lot of time and headache, but using those accounts with weak passwords can result in an even larger headache. Knowing how the majority of the planet uses email (sending some pretty sensitive data) this creates a large risk for most any company. I'll run through a quick list of tools and processes that I use to test the strength of webmail logins.
The first part of any password attack is gathering valid usernames. For attacks against webmail, this usually means scouring the target's web sites looking for either specific usernames, or the naming structure for their accounts. The latter is easy – you can dig through the targets website and collect names of employees, and rewrite them to fit the company's standard account naming policy(Joe User becomes joe.user, juser, joeuser, etc). There are also some tools that automate the gathering of this information:
Metagoofil – Metagoofil will search a particular domain or website, download all the documents from it, and parse the metadata looking for usernames, internal file locations, and lots of other info. You can get an absolutely incredible amount of information from metadata.
FOCA – Much like Metagoofil, but appears to strip out even more information from documents. This tool recently debuted at Defcon17.
- theHarvester – This tool also does a good job of utilizing search engines to gather email addresses and usernames. It searches social networking sites, the PGP key repositories, and uses general search engine tactics as well.
There are many other ways to enumerate usernames from public resources, but these tools should give a good starting point. Use them in combination along with some manual searching to create a username list.
Once we have our list of users, we can move on to creating a password list. There are many ways to construct a valid password list for a specific target. I like to start by grabbing the DPL (Default Password List) and stripping out any vendor specific stuff. Ill then add in the old favorites such as all the variations on Password1. Then, ill start looking for some more specific words. Ill do some research on the target, and include things like the business name, local sports teams, addresses and universities. Ill then use a application like John the Ripper to run permutations on the list we just created. John lets you specify custom permutations rules, and can take the word 'redspin' and output redspin, Redspin, red-spin, redspin1, Red-spin1, etc.
Now that we have some valid usernames and a relevant password list, we can move into the attack. There are few tools to help automate password attacks against webmail login pages, but the few that exist are quite handy:
OWABF – Outlook Web Access Brute Force. A nice script that automates attacks against Outlook Web Access.
- WMAT – Web Mail Auth Tool. A tool that supports multiple 'patterns' for setting up attacks against different webmail services. It currently includes patterns for horde, hordeIMP, kerio, mdaemon and squirrelmail. The structure is pretty easy to write new patterns for if you need to test a unique login page.
That's all there is to it. We have collected valid usernames from the target, created some customized password lists, and have listed some tools you can use to tie it all together. One thing to keep in mind is the use of lockout policies. The last thing you want to do it lock out a bunch of live email accounts, so unless you know the lockout threshold (if there is one), you might want to limit the password guesses per account to something sane.
$ python owabf.py -s https://webmail.example.com -u userlist -p top100.pass
*** OWA Brute Forcer ***
*** OWABF v 1.3 ***
*** Dejan Levaja ***
*** http://www.netsec.rs ***
*** [email protected] ***
Outlook Web Access Brute Forcer
Login unsuccessful
joe.user 654321
Login unsuccessful
joe.user abc12345
Login unsuccessful
joe.user 123456
Login unsuccessful
joe.user Password?
Login unsuccessful
joe.user password
Login unsuccessful
joe.user welcome1
Login unsuccessful
joe.user Password1
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ITE Cal Poly Pomona held its 6th General Meeting on Thursday, January 23, 2014. The guest speaker for this meeting was Jonathan Hofert. You can read more about Mr. Hofert at: https://itecpp.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/ites-second-general-meeting-w-rsbite-president-jonathan-hofert/.
Mr. Hofert, the RSBITE (Riverside-San Bernardino) President, introduced himself as a Cal Poly Pomona alumni, and presented about his work as Senior Traffic Engineer for Parsons Brinckerhoff, which included a couple of projects he is working along with Los Angeles Metro. Mr. Hofert also talked about his experience working as a senior project advisor for the Spring 2013 Quarter. Mr. Hofert encouraged members to be proactive in meeting with professionals, participating in student and professional meetings, and attending conferences.
Among the General Announcements:
- T-shirts will be delivered at the next meeting, we apologize for the delay.
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo will be having an ITE Student Conference on February 15-17. Contact Mark for more information: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Cal Poly Pomona will be holding this year's UCTC Conference on April 17-19.
See you at our next meeting on Thursday, February 6!


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Throughout the ages, librarians have taken on the task of unmuddling attempts at communication about ideas. It seems as we all head off to San Jose for CLA 114, we've already got techniques for unmuddling to unmuddle.
As of now (actually as of yesterday afternoon), the really truly official hashtag for those Tweeting the conference events–and I hope that is many of you!–is #CaLibConf. Other suggestions were made–and texted, Tweeted and blogged. On a personal note, I plan on just following all three, betting on some folks as unnimble-fingered as I to want to stick with either all caps or all lower case, and that some archivally minded will absolutely have to add a numerical designation in order to breathe more easily.
Infopeople, via the energies and imaginations of those clever Eureka fellows, are going to be offering us all some Mad Library Science at Booth 314, in the exhibits. These Mad Library Scientists can get you started on planning your trail through the rest of the exhibits, too, thanks to the annual treasure map Infopeople provides.
Meanwhile another group of library scientists, at Booth 118, plan to teach conference attendees how to see the library world as a chemical experiment–or an endless array of experiemnts as local and world elements change.
So, we're putting the science back in library science–and communicating about the conference on multiple channels. I like that, actually: scientists need community to do their best work, and their best work definitiely needs all manner of communication! Wait, that's not "their" but "our".


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Earlier this month I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the first Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI or #lawdi on Twitter) at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in New York City, the brainchild of Sebastian Heath, Tom Elliott, and John Muccigrosso. I presented on the current state of archaeological publishing of my organization, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). The best part about the conference, though, was listening to new friends and colleagues speak about the many aspects of linked data, open source, and open access the archaeology of the Ancient World. As the ASCSA's Director of Publications, I am beginning to put into practice what was discussed at LAWDI, and look forward to continuing to contribute.
Here's what's been done so far:
1. Open Access Hesperia. Our journal, Hesperia, is currently housed on JSTOR. We have a Content Sharing Agreement with JSTOR, however, which allows us to share our content from beyond the 3-year moving wall. This means that in July 2012 individual readers who need to search for and download any/all Hesperia articles published from 1932-2009 will be able to do so from the ASCSA's website for free. The PDF articles can be read on any device that can open PDFs, and they can be used without Internet access post-download. There is no DRM. I alpha-tested the behind-the-scenes upload utility yesterday with reasonable success. I need to do a batch name-change on the PDFs and then load those onto our webserver (the test links currently point to JSTOR, but this will change in July). It is my hope that I can find just over $1M with which I can endow the journal at which point I can make open access to it complete and eternal.
2. Open Bibliography on Zotero. After the LAWDI meetings, I returned to Princeton to map out what I could begin to do with the concept of linking content for the ancient world. I had briefly used Zotero to read articles posted by Tom Elliott on Twitter, but I'd never gotten into the platform as a contributor of content. Since then, I have created a Zotero group for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in which I have now shared publicly the enter bibliography of 1,500+ Hesperia articles and about 150 (or 230+) monographs. I need to go through (and encourage others to help with this) and edit the book entries and add abstracts to earlier Hesperia articles. This will take time, but it's a good start.
3. Linking in eBooks. June saw the publication of our latest printed monograph, Isthmia: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains (Isthmia IX), by Joseph L. Rife. I spent yesterday and will spend today creating links in the PDF eBook. My previous attempts at linking were restricted to links between text, note, table, and image. I have done this in Isthmia IX, tedium made bearable through listening to hardcore punk, gangsta rap, and the Euro 2012 match between Germany and Italy. This is only the first step. The next is to attempt to create dynamic, outward-looking links from every bibliographic citation and every footnote to actual articles and books on the Internet. This could be insane and/or impossible, but I'm going to try. I am also going to attempt to link each inventoried object as presented on the ASCSA's open access website for archaeological data, ascsa.net. Lastly, I'm going to try to link from places mentioned in Rife's book to records in Pleiades. Wish me luck.
The above is what I'm doing now and in July, and I'm looking forward to sharing/linking with other archaeologists worldwide on these and future projects.
Andrew Reinhard, Director of Publications, ASCSA


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