The Arabian Gulf Digital Archive (“AGDA”) is an online archive that
has been created to showcase historical and cultural material that tells
the story of the rich, intriguing and complex history of the Arabian
Gulf.
An accessible resource, it serves to offer digital material that
spans two centuries, documenting events and personalities that have
shaped and defined the region. The contents offer an insight into the
past with some material previously unseen by the general public.
AGDA contains, among other things, letters, memos, transcripts,
photos and official correspondence from leaders and governments that
shaped the events of their time. It’s a free and open resource for
students, researchers, enthusiasts and anyone who is curious to explore
the rich and varied past of the Arabian Gulf.
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.
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