Posted on behalf of the organizersWe are pleased to announce that CurrentResearch in Egyptology XIII (CRE XIII) will be held at the University ofBirmingham, UK, from 27th-30th March 2012.We invite papers from postgraduateresearchers and independent sch…
The following articles were authored by Charles Ellwood Jones
Announcing the
Ancient World Open Bibliographies Project
Our Goal: To provide an online destination for students and scholars seeking bibliographies about the ancient world. In the modern academy, sometimes too much information is as thorny a problem as too little. The Ancient World Open Bibliographies seeks to provide annotated bibliographies on specific subjects that serve as an introduction to students or to scholars exploring a new area of research. We will also link to existing open-access bibliographical resources online.
Open Access: The project is currently hosted at a dedicated wiki (http://ancientbibliographies.libs.uga.edu/ ), with duplication using the (free) bibliographic citation management software Zotero (see our group library here: http://www.zotero.org/groups/ancient_world_open_bibliographies ). It is open access and covered by a Creative Commons license.
Scope: Geographically, we cover Europe, Asia, and Africa. Temporally, we cover prehistory through ca. 700 CE. Right now the project is richest in Classical, Near Eastern, and Egyptian Studies, but we welcome broader contributions within our scope.
How Can You Help?
- Create an annotated bibliography on a topic of your expertise.
- Contribute an existing bibliography you have assembled on a topic – perhaps one you use for your own work, or distribute to students.
- Add a link to an existing online bibliography you use.
- Encourage your colleagues and students to participate by creating and sharing their own bibliographies; for example, consider whether the creation of an collaborative annotated bibliography would work as a class assignment.
Bibliographies or links can be emailed (see contact info below) or feel free to edit the wiki, adding a link or a new page (see details on how to do the latter at http://ancientbibliographies.libs.uga.edu/wiki/How_To_Contribute ). Emailed bibliographies in most formats will work: .doc, .pdf, .ris or other export from EndNote/Refworks/Zotero/etc.
Questions, or Want to Contribute? Visit the wiki or blog or contact Phoebe Acheson (University of Georgia Libraries, pacheson@uga.edu ) or Chuck Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, cejo@uchicago.edu ).
This flier is available at http://tinyurl.com/AWOBflier
UK Archaeological Sciences 2011 meeting, Reading, 15-18 September 2011The Department of Archaeology is proud to host the UK Archaeological Sciences 2011 meeting.UKAS is a bi-annual international conference which aims to bring together archaeological s…
For the benefit of those (there are some) who are not using facebook and therefore cannot see the Remembering Donny George page there, I’m listing here the obituaries and other linked documents which have been posted there. I have not reproduced …
Would you like a preview of the the book viewer of ISAW’s Ancient World Digital Library? Come on in!Comments are welcome below or to me directly.
Apparently so:Update (March 7, 2011): The Online LSJ was released on February 24, 2011. Within hours of its release, our site became the target of individuals attempting to download our data. By March 1 our server was bombarded by hundreds of coordi…
One of the very many rumors out of Egypt this week is that one of the the trumpets from Tutankhamun’s tomb is a victim of the looting within the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. I hope it isn’t true. The silver trumpet was played by a military bandsman,…
“Between 1993 and 2003 the proportion of all new full-time faculty appointments employed on short-term contracts and without prospect of tenure increased from 50 percent to 58.6 percent of those hired. This “restructuring” has been going on sinc…
The Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) will meet during the APA/AIA meetings on Saturday January 8th from 9:00-10:30 a.m. in the Marriott Riverwalk’s Valero RoomThe Forum brings together people interested in the inters…
John Walrodt is now blogging at Paperless ArchaeologyThis blog is focused on the creation, curation, and publication of entirely digital content from archaeological excavations. Most of the examples come from work done for PARP:PS (Pompeii Archaeolog…
Growth in traffic on AWOL since the beginning of 2009
The Road to Nasiriyah, Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton’s documentary film from Iraq is now at a one hour and forty eight minute rough cut.About The Road to NasiriyahIn the wake of the 2003 Iraq war, hundreds of archaeological sites in southern Ir…
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)Publicly launched this week, AMIR is a project of Chuck Jones, Librarian at ISAW, and Peter Magierski, Middle East Studies Librarian NYU, to assemble and distribute information on open access material…
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ARTstor is pleased to announce EMET, a stand-alone tool on the Adobe Air 2.0 platform designed to extract metadata embedded in JPEG and TIFF files. EMET is compatible with Mac OS 10.4+, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
EMET is intended to facilitate the management and preservation of digital images and their incorporation into external databases and applications. The tool was created by ARTstor through funding from the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and is available free of charge.To download the application, go to: http://www.artstor.org/global/g-html/download-emet-public.html.For more information on how to use EMET, see the help documentation.
From the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities TeamThe Masters degree in Digital Humanities at UCL draws together teaching from a wide range of disciplines, to investigate the application of computational technologies to the arts, humanities, and cultural …
