What would happen if the Pope’s library were accidentally burnt? How
can we reconstruct and visualize ancient and medieval pilgrimage routes?
Technology is changing the way we study and preserve texts and
artifacts. In a series of web-exclusive articles written by scholars
engaged in the Digital Humanities, learn how this growing field of study
is helping to analyze textual and archaeological data—and how you can
help.
Interested
in exploring the results of archaeology projects directly from the
researchers? Cutting-edge technology is helping archaeologists generate a
tremendous amount of digital data each year. At the same time, the
scientific community increasingly expects direct access to the data. In “Open Context: Making the Most of Archaeological Data,”
Alexandria Archive Institute cofounders Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric
Kansa describe Open Context, an open access, peer-reviewed data
publishing service that has published over one million digital
resources, from archaeological survey data to excavation documentation
and artifact analyses. Read “Open Context: Making the Most of Archaeological Data” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric Kansa >>
Making University Collections Accessible to All
Many
university departments across the world have shelves and storerooms
full of books, artifacts and research collected over several decades.
What do you do when the “skeletons in your closet” are a box of
2,000-year-old artifacts? That was the question facing the University of
British Columbia’s Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious
Studies. In “From Stone to Screen: Bringing 21st-Century Access to Ancient Artifacts,” members of the From Stone to Screen
graduate student project at UBC discuss their ongoing efforts to create
digital archives of their department’s artifact collection—making these
fascinating objects accessible to a global audience online. Read “From Stone to Screen: Bringing 21st-Century Access to Ancient Artifacts” >>
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
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.
What if the Dead Sea Scrolls were damaged? What if the Pope’s library burned down? In “Digital Humanities: How Everyone Can Get a Library Card to the World’s Most Exclusive Collections Online,” George Washington University associate professor of history Diane H. Cline explores the research opportunities and potential impact of Digital Humanities projects. This new field not only preserves publications, it extends access to the humanities to anyone with Internet access.
Want to follow a fourth-century pilgrim itinerary from Bordeaux via Constantinople to the Holy Land? Experiment with ancient travel times and their costs over land, sea and sand in the Roman Empire? University of Iowa assistant professor of classics Sarah E. Bond explains in “Map Quests: Geography, Digital Humanities and the Ancient World” how the Digital Humanities offers opportunities to explore, interact with and contribute to maps of the ancient world.
Interested in exploring the results of archaeology projects directly from the researchers? Cutting-edge technology is helping archaeologists generate a tremendous amount of digital data each year. At the same time, the scientific community increasingly expects direct access to the data. In “Open Context: Making the Most of Archaeological Data,” Alexandria Archive Institute cofounders Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric Kansa describe Open Context, an open access, peer-reviewed data publishing service that has published over one million digital resources, from archaeological survey data to excavation documentation and artifact analyses.
Many university departments across the world have shelves and storerooms full of books, artifacts and research collected over several decades. What do you do when the “skeletons in your closet” are a box of 2,000-year-old artifacts? That was the question facing the University of British Columbia’s Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies. In “From Stone to Screen: Bringing 21st-Century Access to Ancient Artifacts,” members of the From Stone to Screen graduate student project at UBC discuss their ongoing efforts to create digital archives of their department’s artifact collection—making these fascinating objects accessible to a global audience online.
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