Posts Tagged by digital humanities
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
Career Opportunity: Assistant Research Scholar, Digital Projects, ISAW Library
| December 28, 2021 | Posted by David Ratzan under Job Postings |
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 to provide access to and support for new and innovative forms of digital scholarship, scholarly communication, and pedagogy in ancient studies. The ARS will help the ISAW Library fulfill this charge by collaborating with a diverse group of academic professionals at ISAW and other schools […] more
Ancient MakerSpaces Announces 2022 CFP
| March 5, 2021 | Posted by Aaron Hershkowitz under 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 | Posted by David Ratzan under 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
