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Collaborating on a Corpus of Open Greek and Latin
| December 2, 2015 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
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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 organizers were Greg Crane, the Editor-in-Chief of Perseus and the Humboldt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig, and Lenny Muellner, Director of IT and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Participants discussed ways in which distributed teams of librarians, students, and […] more
Update on the OGLP
| November 9, 2015 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
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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, who is the head of the OGLP. Project staff as well as librarians from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mount Allison, UVA, and Yale will attend. The major goal of the meeting is to identify practical steps that libraries can undertake to increase the number of available open […] more
Fall 2015 Events at ISAW
| September 14, 2015 | Posted by admin under Uncategorized |
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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 “Building Instructional Support for Classics Research and Teaching” Friday, November 13, 2015 ca. 11am to 5pm Organized by the ISAW Library and the Yale University Classics Library, this informal meeting of greater New York area classics and ancient-studies librarians will foster collaboration on the development […] more
Global Library Partnerships
| July 20, 2015 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized |
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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 citadel of Erbil in heart of ancient Iraqi Kurdistan, approximately 100 miles northwest of Sulaimani. The citadel’s first occupation layers date to the 5th millennium BCE. Last week the ISAW Library shipped 19 boxes of duplicate and out-of-scope books to the American University in Iraq, […] more
ISAW Library Relaunches Ancient World Digital Library with Redesigned Portal
| May 21, 2015 | Posted by David Ratzan under Uncategorized |
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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 related to the ancient world. AWDL began as a collaboration between ISAW and DLTS in 2010. Although the AWDL website has been completely redesigned and expanded, AWDL’s mission remains to collect, curate, and sustain a digital collection of important research materials for the use of […] more
Early Explorations at Nimrud
| May 8, 2015 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized |
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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 IS claims to have vandalized sculptures and bulldozed structures prior to the detonation of heavy explosives in the vicinity of the city’s palaces. This is the latest in a series of such events, including the destruction of antiquities in the Mosul Museum, damage tothe Hatra […] more
NY Regional Meeting of the Forum, May 1st at ISAW
| April 7, 2015 | Posted by Colin McCaffrey under Uncategorized |
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. We hope the meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss issues of common concern and explore areas of potential collaboration including collection development, instruction, and digital projects. If you are interested in attending, please contact Colin McCaffrey, colin.mccaffrey@yale.edu, if you have not already been in […] more
Open Access Goes Mainstream at De Gruyter
| March 4, 2015 | Posted by Serena Pirrotta under Uncategorized |
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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” Open Access journals (for a classification of the different implementation practices of OA s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access). Open Access has become more and more relevant also in the Humanities and Social Sciences, where —compared to the natural and medical sciences—books (monographs or edited volumes) traditionally play a […] more
Some modern problems in controlling ancient names
| February 18, 2015 | Posted by Lanah Koelle under Uncategorized |
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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 in the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE). The two rebel Nebuchadnezzars—and all the other would-be contenders in ancient history—pose a problem for libraries and researchers: how do we catalog and search for history’s losers? One of the fundamental principles of cataloging is the concept of […] more
Vendors for Greek Language Materials from Cyprus, Greece and Turkey
| February 3, 2015 | Posted by Rhea Lesage under Uncategorized |
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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 blog. Acquiring Greek language materials published in Cyprus and Turkey also is a challenge, so I decided to add a couple of choices from each of those countries as well. Those who have made this list have weathered Greek economic crisis, although are still struggling […] more
