Category: Publishing
ISAW Library and the FCLSC to host panel Dec. 15, 2022: Excavating the archeological data cycle: Use, publication, and reuse
| November 10, 2022 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, Professional Development, Publishing |
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 program. The presenters will be Ixchel M. Faniel (OCLC) and Leigh Lieberman (OpenContext/Princeton), followed by a response by Tom Elliott (ISAW). Details and abstracts for the presentations are available here. The discussion will be broadcast by Zoom and not recorded. We warmly invite everyone to attend, but for security purposes we require that […] more
Challenges and Changes in Publishing, Spotlight on Classical Studies Part II: Multi-modal Publishing in the Humanities
| March 21, 2020 | Posted by Rebecca Stuhr under Professional Development, Publishing |
Read Part I Multi-modality is unavoidable when researching the ancient world. Scholars rely on primary evidence derived from multiple physical and virtual formats. How can we represent this cornucopia of possible evidence in a way that makes it intuitive for an audience and that is affordable for publishers? Libraries offer one solution through their institutional repositories (IRs). IRs can handle multiple media formats from music samples, to 3D imagery, to video, to interactive maps. IRs notably provide permanent links and DOIs for digital artifacts, and their best practices include long-term storage, accessibility, and portability. Scholars and publishers can work with […] more
Part I: Challenges and Changes in Humanities Publishing with a spotlight on Classical Studies
| March 21, 2020 | Posted by Rebecca Stuhr under Professional Development, Publishing |
This post originates from my contribution to the 2020 SCS Panel on Humanities Publishing organized by Deborah Stewart and sponsored by the FCSLSC I have spent the entirety of my career in collections. My first position was at the University of Kansas. I had a typewriter to produce order slips and I remember hauling around the volumes of the German books in print. Our collections were in print, we worked from card catalogs, and we had a microfiche catalog for journals. We had one dedicated OCLC terminal, and we offered mediated database searching at cost, with no screen, a printer, […] more
