A
portolan nautical chart of the Mediterranean Sea. Second quarter of the
14th century. Anonymous, probably Genoan. Library of Congress.
The annual Linked Pasts conference, which has
previously been held at KCL, Madrid, Stanford, Mainz and Bordeaux,
brings together scholars, heritage professionals and other practitioners
with an interest in Linked Open Data as applied to the study of the
ancient and historical worlds. Panels and working groups at Linked Pasts
are more goal-oriented than a conventional academic conference, and
activities and agendas are often proposed, developed and revised by all
participants at the event itself.
The sixth installment of Linked Pasts, hosted by the University of
London and British Library in December 2020, will be a fully remote and
online event, with events taking place over two weeks rather than an
intense three days of in-person sessions. Other than welcome, keynotes
and wrap-up at the beginning and end of the conference, most activities
will be asynchronous, with work or discussion taking place in whatever
medium is most appropriate to the activity and community in question.
Participation in the conference is free, but advance registration is required. Call for activities There will be space for suggestion and selection of activities at the
conference, but we also welcome proposals for research activities,
which may include (but are not restricted to): development of standards,
ontologies and research applications; discovery and integration of
datasets; enrichment and annotation of textual collections;
collaboration, pedagogy and community expansion; other relevant
undertakings with a focus on Linked Open Data and the historical world.
To propose a stream or working group for the conference programme,
please fill in the form at (https://forms.gle/7hNm6dS7X36ded3b7)
with a max. 200-word abstract outlining your suggestion, type of
activity and the medium in which it will be run, and some indication of
the likely participants (e.g. names, community or expected stakeholders)
by end of Friday October 2, 2020. Programme Committee
Jonathan Blaney (University of London)
Gabriel Bodard (chair) (University of London)
Carmen Brando Lebas (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
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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