Milestones: 20th anniversary of the ANE list

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Milestones: 20th anniversary of the ANE list

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the ANE list. John Sanders and I pulled the idea together at the Oriental Institute, using borrowed equipment and software. You can still read the archive of the original configuration at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/library/ane/
It operated in the original form from 2 July 1993 - 16 February 2006.
Its current form - ANE-2 - began, in anticipation of the closing of the original list, on 15 February 2006, and is publicly archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/
I wrote a little bit about it in 1999 at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/web-editor
It might be time for another reflection on the history of the list, but not today.
Happy birthday to ANE and its inhabitants!

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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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