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The Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP) held an organizational meeting on November 19-20. The Project aims to develop an open corpus of Classical Greek and Latin “for the c. 100 million words produced through c. 600 CE and…the billions of words produced after 600 CE in Greek and Latin that survive” (project website). Meeting … Read more
On November 19-20, the Center for Hellenic Studies will host a meeting to address the goals of the Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP) and outline a workflow for libraries to contribute materials. The meeting will be run by Greg Crane, the Editor-in-Chief of Perseus and the Humboldt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig, … Read more
Digital Antiquity Coffee House Friday, October 2nd, 2015 10am to 4pm An informal meeting organized by the ISAW Library and the Digital Programs team that will provide an opportunity for NYC-area scholars and students exploring digital approaches to the study of the ancient world to present and discuss their work. More information here: http://isaw.nyu.edu/events/diglib-grad-fall2015. FCLSC Forum … Read more
News from our friends at ISAW and the CHS: ISAW donates hundreds of books to the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani by David Ratzan The ISAW Library donated 362 volumes to the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, as part of its mission to support and encourage the study and preservation of the ancient world. The … Read more
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) and the Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS) in the New York University Division of Libraries have redesigned and relaunched the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL) online portal. The new site offers significant improvements in the presentation, searching, and downloading of a growing collection of scholarship … Read more
From our friends at the Institute for Study of the Ancient World: Austen Henry Layard and the early exploration of Nimrud by Gabriel McKee — May 05, 2015 Last month, The Islamic State of Syria and the Levant issued a video depicting the vandalizing of the ancient Assyrian city of Kalhu, better known as Nimrud. The … Read more
The Forum for Classics, Libraries and Scholarly Communications is organizing a meeting of greater New York-area classics and ancient world librarians on Friday, May 1st, from noon to five pm. It is hosted by the Library at the Institute of the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) with the support of the Yale Classics Library. … Read more
The so-called Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities signaled the beginning of Open Access in 2003, and by now almost 500 institutions have signed the declaration (http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration). Many—traditional—academic publishers have since developed Open Access business models for journal articles, introducing embargo and repository policies and creating hybrid and “gold” … Read more
From our friends at the Institute for Study of the Ancient World: “He lied to the people, saying ‘I am Nebuchadnezzar’”: Some modern problems in controlling ancient names by Gabriel McKee — Jan 30, 2015 The ISAW library recently received a copy of Nebukadnezar III/IV by Jürgen Lorenz, which assembles the primary sources for two little-known political upstarts … Read more
At the recent Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications meeting at the AIA/SCS Conference in New Orleans, the topic of reliable Greek vendors came up as it usually does when a group of classics librarians gets together. I offered to pull together a list of “approved” vendors from Greece to post to the FCLSC … Read more
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