Administrative

Friday, May 13, 2011

Administrative

Blogger was out of order for much of Thursday and Friday (May 12-13). It is now operational, though some data still requires restoration. For any of you who care to read it, there's more information from Blogger / Google here. This makes me worry about backup.

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Laura GibbsMay 14, 2011 at 12:15 PM
I am a dedicated user of Blogger and while I'm not exactly worried about backup, once a month I do make a local backup of my blogs; there's an easy download option on the Basic Settings page. I do have some content I would be sorry to lose since I use blogs as rough drafts for future books. So, I am glad Google introduced that backup options. It's easy to do and makes me feel safer, even though I worry about Blogger less than I do some of the other hosted services on which I rely (especially Flickr, given the precarious status of Yahoo as an Internet company these days).
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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

AWOL is syndicated to Facebook and Twitter.