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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
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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
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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

Guest post: ISAW Library shares Ancient World Digital Library records across institutions

May 10, 2021 Posted by David Ratzan under Digital Humanities and Resources, Guest posts, Tips and Resources
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Screenshot of the Ancient World Digital Library interface

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 Posted by David Ratzan under Digital Humanities and Resources, Job Postings
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Page from Möller’s Hieratische Paläographie (1927)

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

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
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An image of the new map interface for ISAW New Titles, showing a book mapped to a temple site in Philae, Egypt

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

New Titles in Papyrology, Classics, Ancient History, Sanskrit, and East Asian Studies added to the Ancient World Digital Library

June 5, 2020 Posted by David Ratzan under Tips and Resources
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REPOSTED from the ISAW Library (original post by Jasmine Smith): During this first week of June, nine titles were added to the Ancient World Digital Library including works in papyrology, central Asia, and ancient science. Works under the subject “Ancient Science” can now be browsed by navigating to the “Collections Overview” page and selecting the “Ancient Science” tab. Below is a list of the recently added titles: Isabelle Charleux, Grégory Delaplace, Roberte Hamayon, Scott Pearce, Representing power in ancient Inner Asia, Studies on East Asia, Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University Kathleen McNamee, Sigla and select marginalia in Greek literary papyri, Papyrologica Bruxellensia, Fondation Égyptologique Reine […] more

NY Regional Meeting of the Forum, May 1st at ISAW

April 7, 2015 Posted by Colin McCaffrey under Uncategorized
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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

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