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ISAW Library and the FCLSC to host panel Dec. 15, 2022: Excavating the archeological data cycle: Use, publication, and reuse

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The Library at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU and the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications will host a virtual panel discussion about current trends in the publication, use, and reuse of archaeological data (Excavating the Archaeological Data Cycle: Use, publication, and reuse) at 12pm EST, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022 in conjunction with ISAW’s Archaeology Day … Read more

Career Opportunity: Assistant Research Scholar, Digital Projects, ISAW Library

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The Library of Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University seeks an Assistant Research Scholar (ARS) to help develop and support its growing portfolio of digital projects and services and to participate in the scholarly life of the ISAW community. A key component of the ISAW Library’s mission is … Read more

Guest post: ISAW Library shares Ancient World Digital Library records across institutions

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Screenshot of the Ancient World Digital Library interface

By Jasmine Smith, Assistant Research Scholar for Digital Initiatives in the ISAW Library. The ISAW Library has made the metadata describing items in the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) available to other libraries and institutions, so that open access items in AWDL be made more discoverable and accessible to the wider scholarly public. The COVID-19 pandemic has made everyone increasingly … Read more

Job Posting: JavaScript Student Developer for Hieratic Sign Tool

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Page from Möller’s Hieratische Paläographie (1927)

Project Thanks to a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), we are seeking a part-time, student JavaScript developer to help with the development of The Hieratic Sign Search Tool. The Hieratic Search Tool will be a web-based digital version of Möller’s Hieratic Palaeography (Hieratische Paläographie [1927]), enabling students and scholars … Read more

Guest Post: Open linked data and mapping scholarship in ancient studies

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An image of the new map interface for ISAW New Titles, showing a book mapped to a temple site in Philae, Egypt

By Christian Casey, CLIR postdoctoral fellow at the ISAW Library, which is publishing today a new interactive, map-based visualization of its collection based on a newly redesigned database of bibliographic items tagged with Pleiades IDs, linked open data URIs for ancient places. In addition to the new visualization, the ISAW Library is also publishing the … Read more

FCLSC posts recording of “The New Normal for Academic Libraries in a Post-Pandemic World” (Jan. 5)

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The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications (FCLSC) post the recording of a discussion (Jan. , 2021) with Barbara Rockenbach (Yale) and Simon Neame (UMass, Amherst) about “The New Normal for Academic Libraries in a Post-Pandemic World” The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications, an affiliated interest group of the Society for Classical Studies convened its … Read more

Jeremy Ott and Megan Daly elected as officers of the FCLSC for 2021-2023

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Jeremy Ott and Megan Daly were elected as Chair and Secretary, respectively, of the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications at the Forum’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications, an affiliated interest group of the Society for Classical Studies convened its annual meeting on Tuesday, … Read more

Ancient Makerspaces 2021 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, Jan. 9, 2021

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The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications (FCLSC), an affiliated interest group of the Society for Classical Studies, is sponsoring Ancient MakerSpaces 2021 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021 from 9am to 3pm CST. It is nearly time for the Annual Joint Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and … Read more

Society Sunday (Jan. 3, 2021) at the AIA Annual Meeting: Digital Archaeology for a Virtual World (panel discussion)

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On Jan. 3, 2021 between 4-5pm CST Carolyn Laferrière will moderate a panel discussion about digital archaeology. Hear from team members from Peopling the Past, Digital Hammurabi, and Everyday Orientalism. You may register here: https://www.archaeological.org/event/society-sunday/ Digital Hammurabi is a public outreach/digital humanities project that aims to provide reliable, accurate information about the Ancient Near East and surrounding areas … Read more

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