Guest post: ISAW Library shares Ancient World Digital Library records across institutions
| May 10, 2021 | Digital Humanities and Resources, Guest posts, Tips and Resources |
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 aware of access to digital research materials. Never has this been more important to own user community at ISAW or to other libraries and institutions that serve the wider academic and scholarly community. For this reason, the ISAW Library has worked during the pandemic to […] more
Job Posting: JavaScript Student Developer for Hieratic Sign Tool
| March 16, 2021 | Digital Humanities and Resources, Job Postings |
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 to search for hieratic signs (a form of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing) according to various criteria, including sign shape. The project, which will make the tool publicly available online, is also collaborating with the Projekt Altägyptische Kursivschriften (directed by Prof. Dr. Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen, Johannes Gutenberg-University […] more
Ancient MakerSpaces Announces 2022 CFP
| March 5, 2021 | Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, News |
Hot on the heels of a very successful showing at the remote AIA-SCS 2021 Joint Annual Meeting, Ancient MakerSpaces (AMS) is back and putting together another dynamite program for the next meeting in January 2022. We don’t know yet whether we’ll be in San Francisco, virtual, or hybrid, but we’re ready for any eventuality and we want you to join us! In case you’re not familiar with us, AMS is a day-long event showcasing digital approaches to the study of the ancient world. Since 2017, AMS has served as a venue at the AIA-SCS Annual Meeting for scholars, librarians, and […] more
Guest Post: Open linked data and mapping scholarship in ancient studies
| March 3, 2021 | Digital Humanities and Resources, Guest posts, Tips and Resources |
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 underlying data set, which now comprises over 4,000 curated bibliographic records in ancient studies, as well as the machine-learning algorithm that programmatically performs the initial assignment of Pleiades IDs to raw bibliographic records. Once upon a time (June 2009), researchers at Google created a tool […] more
FCLSC posts recording of “The New Normal for Academic Libraries in a Post-Pandemic World” (Jan. 5)
| January 29, 2021 | Conferences and Workshops, News, Professional Development |
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 annual meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5 virtually via zoom as part of the 152nd Annual Meeting of the SCS, held jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America. The meeting was the first to be held virtually for the FCLSC and was the one of the best attended […] more
Jeremy Ott and Megan Daly elected as officers of the FCLSC for 2021-2023
| January 7, 2021 | Conferences and Workshops, News |
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, Jan. 5 via zoom as part of the 152nd Annual Meeting of the SCS, held jointly with the Archaeological Institute of America. The meeting was the first to be held virtually for the FCLSC and was the one of the best attended on record, as […] more
Ancient Makerspaces 2021 at the SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, Jan. 9, 2021
| January 2, 2021 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, Professional Development |
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 the Archaeological Institute of America, and the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications (FCLSC) is excited to be sponsoring the fourth Ancient MakerSpaces (AMS2021) workshop at the SCS/AIA annual meeting. Ancient MakerSpaces is an all-day “workshop” meant to bring attention to projects working at […] more
Society Sunday (Jan. 3, 2021) at the AIA Annual Meeting: Digital Archaeology for a Virtual World (panel discussion)
| December 29, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, Digital Humanities and Resources, Professional Development, Tips and Resources |
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 in an entertaining and engaging fashion. Resources about the Ancient Near East are few and far between, and often filled with misinformation. Digital Hammurabi tries to fill that need through interviews with researchers, and educational videos, as well as self-published books aimed at a non-specialist […] more
FCLSC (Virtual) Annual Meeting, Jan. 5, 12-2pm CST
| December 28, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, News, Professional Development |
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communications will be holding its annual meeting on Jan. 5, 12-2pm CST, as part of the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. As with the rest of the meeting, this will be a virtual session on Zoom. The meeting is open and free: you do not need to register with either the SCS or the AIA to attend. Please circulate the agenda to all interested colleagues. The zoom link and password are included in the agenda. Please address all questions to David Ratzan (david.ratzan@nyu.edu) or Rebecca Stuhr (stuhrreb@pobox.upenn.edu). The first half of the […] more
Guest post: VIRTUAL ANTIQUITY – EVENTS AND EXPERIENCES
| June 12, 2020 | Posted by David Ratzan under Conferences and Workshops, News, Tips and Resources |
Reposted from the ISAW Library blog (post by Jasmine Smith) With the spread of Covid-19, institutions related to the study of antiquity are finding new and creative ways to continue to engage with their communities and wider audiences. Most institutions are of course turning to technology to create virtual events and experiences that users can enjoy from wherever they are so long as they have an internet connection. These include virtual conferences, museum exhibits, and even virtual tours of ancient places. The ISAW Library staff have attended various virtual events. For instance, the annual meetings of the Association of Ancient Historians and the American Research […] more
