Sunday, September 19, 2010

Digital Collections at the University of Michigan Libraries

The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) Digital Collections has a new and improved list of collections. This allows for much easier access to the resources they serve. Among those relating to antiquity are the following (most are open access):

The Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology features scholarly articles related to subjects of interest to both UMMA and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, particularly their collections, exhibitions, and fieldwork programs. Written principally by graduate students, faculty, and curators affiliated with the museums and the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, the Bulletin is peer reviewed and distributed internationally. Each volume includes accessions lists as well as several short essays on recent acquisitions or significant holdings. This collection contains volume 15 through the present. This collection contains volume 1 through 14.
The Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museums of Art and Archaeology features scholarly articles related to subjects of interest to both UMMA and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, particularly their collections, exhibitions, and fieldwork programs. Written principally by graduate students, faculty, and curators affiliated with the museums and the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, the Bulletin is peer reviewed and distributed internationally. Each volume includes accessions lists as well as several short essays on recent acquisitions or significant holdings. This collection contains volume 15 through the present.
The Egyptian Amulet catalog is a collaborative project between the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service. Initally developed on a fairly small scale (roughly 360 items), the catalog's purpose was to demonstrate the feasibility and value of transfering the Kelsey catalog of artifacts from a proprietary database system to an SGML-based system providing ubiquitous web access.
This collection contains an online version of the catalog of objects from the ancient world (coins, textiles, pottery, sculpture, etc.) that are held by the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It includes descriptions of over 98,000 objects and fine art photographs. The database is being expanded to include images of many of the artifacts.
This database is a subset of the online version of the catalog of objects that are held by the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It contains over 5,000 descriptions of textiles and over 3,000 images of textile artifacts
Format: Image Collections
Access: public
Search within group: Archaeology and Art / Art History
Sponsor: Digital Library Production Service
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The Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g., papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc.) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts. When possible, links are also provided to the original language texts (e.g., through the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri). The user can move back and forth among text, translation, bibliography, description, and image. With the specially-developed APIS Search System many different types of complex searches can be carried out. APIS includes both published and unpublished material.
The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) has been the official journal of the American Society of Papyrologists since its first publication and is devoted to papyrology and related disciplines. This database makes all issues of BASP available electronically, except the two most recent issues.
  • Format: Text Collections
  • Access: public
  • Search within group: Collection not in any groups
  • Sponsor: MPublishing
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This is a collection of over 20 digitized papyri from Egypt and Greece.
The Egyptian Amulet catalog is a collaborative project between the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, and the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service. Initally developed on a fairly small scale (roughly 360 items), the catalog's purpose was to demonstrate the feasibility and value of transfering the Kelsey catalog of artifacts from a proprietary database system to an SGML-based system providing ubiquitous web access.
This collection contains an online version of the catalog of objects from the ancient world (coins, textiles, pottery, sculpture, etc.) that are held by the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It includes descriptions of over 98,000 objects and fine art photographs. The database is being expanded to include images of many of the artifacts.
This database is a subset of the online version of the catalog of objects that are held by the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. It contains over 5,000 descriptions of textiles and over 3,000 images of textile artifacts
This collection was assembled from texts provided by the Oxford Text Archive, the InteLex Past Masters Series, Internet Wiretap, and the Cambridge Text Archive. It contains classic texts from Virgil, Ovid, Bacon and De Lille.
The Papyrology Room book collection consists of several thousand volumes of text editions, monographs and journals that deal with ancient and Graeco-Roman Egypt. The majority of the books in the Papyrology Rooms are shelved according to LC call number. However, editions of papyri, ostraca, etc., are listed according to a standard acronym as listed in John F. Oates, et al., (eds.), "Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets" (Oakville, Conn., 2001).
The Patrologia Latina Database is the full-text electronic version of the Patrologia Latina by Jacques-Paul Migne (1844-1855 and 1862-1865), including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus, indexes and illustrations. It contains 221 volumes of early Christian (patristic) writings in their original Latin.
  • Format: Text Collections
  • Access: restricted to UM
  • Search within group: Collection not in any groups
  • Sponsor: Digital Library Production Service
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The 25th International Congress of Papyrology took place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from July 29 to August 4, 2007. This was the second time that the Congress convened in Ann Arbor (following the 12th Congress in 1968) and the third in North America (the 16th Congress in 1980 met in New York). Of the approximately 150 papers delivered during the Congress, 80 fully-referreed articles are included in this publication.
  • Format: Text Collections
  • Access: public
  • Search within group: Collection not in any groups
  • Sponsor: MPublishing
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The Department of the History of Art's digital collection consists of images digitized from slides, books, journals, and prints as well as digital images licensed from vendors, original digital photography donated by faculty, and images provided by other University Visual Resources Collections (VRC). In addition to digital images, the HART VRC Images collection includes data records of the Eleanor S. Collins VRC Teaching Collections, namely the 35mm slide collection.
Format: Image Collections
Access: restricted to UM
Search within group: Architecture, Art / Art History, Photography, and Visual Resources Collections
Sponsor: Digital Library Production Service
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Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
  • Format: Text Collections
  • Access: restricted to UM
  • Search within group: Collection not in any groups
  • Sponsor: MPublishing
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This collection contains over 4000 images from Humanities E-Book.
  • Format: Image Collections
  • Access: restricted to UM
  • Search within group: Collection not in any groups
  • Sponsor: MPublishing
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Travels in Southeastern Europe

This collection contains four accounts of travel in southeastern Europe, each of which contains a significant portion devoted to Bosnia and Hercegovina. They are: "Bosnie et Herzegovin: Souvenirs de Voyage pendant l'Insurrection", by Charles Yriarte, published in Paris by E. Plon et Cie, 1876; "Dalmatia: the Land Where East Meets West", by Maude M. Holbach, published in London and New York by John Lane, 1910; "The Balkan Peninsula", by Emile de Laveleye, published in New York and London by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1887; and "Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe", by G. Muir Mackenzie and A.P. Irby, published in London by Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. Additionally, there are 100 titles that describe travel in southeastern Europe, and in particular, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

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