Friday, October 21, 2011

Pleiades News: Content Improvement Projects and Call for Volunteers

Content Improvement Projects and Call for Volunteers

by Tom Elliott — last modified Oct 21, 2011 10:53 AM Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

We've added a new section of the website to enable community members to suggest, organize and volunteer for projects to improve or expand Pleiades content.

Please visit the new Content Development Projects section of the Pleiades site. There you'll already find information about two projects that were invented by Pleiades community members and that, staffed and organized by volunteers, are now underway.

We invite you to add a comment or a page to suggest or start organizing any other content improvement project that occurs to you. Please also consider volunteering for one or more of the projects listed. There's plenty we can do to improve and expand the content of Pleiades if everyone pitches in.

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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.