This
digital open-educational resource presents an abridged historiography
of state-sponsored museums in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since the late
twentieth century. This non-exhaustive historical tracing of public
museums in the Kingdom proposes critical engagement with the role of
government patronage, resource rent, and state-building through
education and sponsorship of public cultural institutions.
The purpose of this resource is to bring together digitized historic
documents, images, and publicly accessible media sources to create a
digital history project. Altogether, these materials accompanied by
subject-specific texts are meant to help users shape their own
understanding of the public history of museums in Saudi Arabia, and
whether a museum ecosystem has come to be in Saudi.
This
non-exhaustive collection of resources is a conglomeration of
government sponsored reports, documents, and archival images that
visualize the textual component of this resource. Note that the "Open
Data by the Ministry of Culture (Reimagined)" resource collection is
based on data gathered by the Ministry of Culture on cultural
institutions, sites, and establishments. They are presented in a more
digitally, and visually, legible manner in this Resource Collection.
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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