Report on the Linked Ancient World Data Institute

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Report on the Linked Ancient World Data Institute

Report on the Linked Ancient World Data Institute

Author(s): Thomas Elliott, Sebastian Heath, and John Muccigrosso

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv24n2-3.2012.08

Citation: Elliott, Thomas, Sebastian Heath, and John Muccigrosso. Report on the Linked Ancient World Data Institute. Information Standards Quarterly, 2012 Spring/Summer, 24(2/3):43-45.

Abstract: From may 31 to June 2nd, 2012, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University hosted the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI), an internationally attended workshop funded by the National endowment for humanities' office of Digital humanities (grant number: ht5004811). this three-day event mixed longer presentations by invited speakers with presentations by twenty applicants who had submitted statements of interest on why their work would benefit from intensive interaction with colleagues also pursuing digital publication of scholarly resources on the public internet.

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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.

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online

Wednesday, September 12, 2012