Posts Tagged by digital humanities
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
