News: Introducing Open Access at The Met

Introducing Open Access at The Met

February 7, 2017

Loic Tallon, Chief Digital Officer 

As of today, all images of public domain works in The Met collection are available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). So whether you're an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 375,000 images of artworks from our collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction. This policy change to Open Access is an exciting milestone in The Met's digital evolution, and a strong statement about increasing access to the collection and how to best fulfill the Museum's mission in a digital age.

The Met has an incredible encyclopedic collection: 1.5 million objects spanning 5,000 years of culture from around the globe. Since our audience is really the three billion internet-connected individuals around the world, we need to think big about how to reach these viewers, and increase our focus on those digital tactics that have the greatest impact. Open Access is one of those tactics.

The images we're making available under a CC0 license relate to 200,000 public domain artworks in our collection that the Museum has already digitally catalogued. This represents an incredible body of work by curators, conservators, photographers, librarians, cataloguers, interns, and technologists over the past 147 years of the institution's history. This is work that is always ongoing: just last year we added 21,000 new images to the online collection, 18,000 of which relate to works in the public domain.

To help find these images on our website, we've added a feature that allows users to filter searches to only those works that we believe are public domain; all of these Open Access images are marked with the CC0 logo on their respective object page.

Alongside the images, we're also making available under CC0 each artwork's key information, otherwise known as tombstone data—title, maker, date, culture, medium, and dimensions—on all 440,000 artworks that the Museum has digitized to date; this data is now available as a downloadable file on GitHub. By making this information available in a clear, machine-readable format, we are making it easier for the world to search for, play with, and explore the breadth and depth of the Museum's collection. (We don't yet have an API, but we're working on it!)

HISTORY OF EGYPTOLOGY - A SERIES OF VIDEOS

HISTORY OF EGYPTOLOGY - A SERIES OF VIDEOS

Land of the Pharaohs. Birthplace of Christian monasticism. One of the earliest civilizations. Egypt has been called many things and captured western imagination for the past 2000 years. This fascination with the land of the Nile continues today. Tours from around the world flock to Egypt to explore its antiquities. And iconic images, such as Tutankhamun's burial mask, can be found everywhere from China to America.

Click on the images to watch videos.

Episode 1 - Early Greeks giving gifts to Pharaoh

Episode 1: This first episode in the series, The History of Egyptology, explores ancient Egypt's contact with the wider, ancient world, through trade and cultural exchange with the city-states of Greece and the Roman Empire. Most of the ancient history that’s taught to us in North American schools is the history of Greece and Rome; the birth of democracy and philosophy, wars, centurions, and Caesars. But this ancient world had nothing on the countries on the other side of the Mediterranean. To the ancient peoples of Greece and Rome, Egypt was old; thousands of years older, in fact, than anything they knew. Figuring out exactly when Greece and Egypt became aware of each other is an impossible task, but tantalizing images suggest a long history of interaction.

Episode 2 - Biblical references ignite interest

Episode 2: This second episode continues the story of western interest in Egypt from the European Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. This episode touches upon the collapse of the Roman Empire, the spread of Christianity, the Crusades, Egyptian hieroglyphs, pyramids, temples, and, of course, Napoleon; all the while charting a continuing desire to learn more about Egypt. In the fifth century AD, the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed. Some people still refer to the period that followed in Europe as the Dark Ages; a time when knowledge and resources were lost, and people lived in ignorance. In fact, this period was anything but that. The disintegration of the Roman Empire saw the different regions it once controlled fragment into their own, independent units. As the Empire fragmented, these different units held onto knowledge that had been acquired while it was whole.

Episode 3 - Napoleon's invasion increased European interest

Episode 3: This third episode continues the story of western interest in Egypt through the Enlightenment, and into the modern era chronicling Napoleon Bonaparte's shocking invasion of the Land of the Nile, the early nineteenth-century's rush of European explorers, the scramble for antiquities, and the gradual professionalization of Egyptology. A great deal of popular and academic knowledge on Egypt, including its antiquities, natural environment, culture and peoples, was available to Europeans by the end of the 1700s. One of the most famous episodes in the history of Egyptian exploration, however, occurred on the cusp of the new century.

Episode 4 - Americans go to Egypt in the late 1700s

Episode 4: Next, we shift our focus from Europe to the United Sates.  The increased access to Egypt, and the flurry of research into its ancient past, mentioned in the last episode only fuelled further western interest in the Land of the Nile’s history. The increased access to Egypt, and the flurry of research into its ancient past, mentioned in the last episode only fueled further western interest in the Land of the Nile’s history. Exploration into Egypt’s ancient civilization was viewed as an exploration into the origins of human society itself. Given both this motivation and the allure that ancient Egypt radiated, it’s no surprise to find the citizens of a relatively new society interested in its past.

Episode 5 - Tut and Egyptomania

Episode 5: To conclude, we focus on the birth of the American Research Center and American fascination with all things ancient Egyptian. By the early 1900s, a significant amount of information had been uncovered about the ancient Land of the Nile. This was partly due to the progress made in reading hieroglyphs, and partly the result of extensive archaeological work throughout the country.

Open Access Journal: Archivo Español de Arqueología

[First posted in AWOL 31 October 2009. Updated 7 February 2017]

Archivo Español de Arqueología
eISSN: 1988-3110
ISSN: 0066-6742

Archivo Español de Arqueología, fundada en 1940 por Antonio García y Bellido como rama especializada de Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología (1925), es una revista científica de periodicidad anual que publica trabajos de Arqueología, con atención a sus fuentes materiales, literarias, epigráficas o numismáticas. Tiene como campo de interés las culturas del ámbito mediterráneo y europeo desde la Protohistoria a la Alta Edad Media, flexiblemente abierto a realidades culturales próximas y tiempos fronterizos. Se divide en dos secciones: Artículos, dentro de los que tendrán cabida tanto reflexiones de carácter general sobre temas concretos como contribuciones más breves sobre novedades en la investigación arqueológica; y Recensiones. Además, edita la serie Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología, que publica de forma monográfica libros concernientes a las materias mencionadas (ver índice de volúmenes publicados y títulos en formato eBook).

Founded by Antonio García y Bellido in 1940 as a specialized branch of Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología (1925), Archivo Español de Arqueología is a scientific journal that annually publishes articles on Archaeology that focus on their material, literary, epigraphic and numismatic sources. Its field of interest includes Mediterranean and European cultures from Protohistoric times to the Early Middle Ages and is flexibly open to upcoming cultural realities and border times. The journal is divided into two sections: articles - which include both reflections of a general nature on specific topics and shorter contributions on developments in archaeological research - and reviews. In addition, the journal publishes monographs concerning the aforementioned subjects in the series Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología (see the Index of published volumes and titles in eBook format).

2016

	Vol 89
2015	Vol 88
2014	Vol 87
2013	Vol 86
2012	Vol 85
2011	Vol 84
2010	Vol 83
2009	Vol 82
2008	Vol 81
2007	Vol 80
2006	Vol 79
2005	Vol 78	191-192
2004	Vol 77	189-190
2003	Vol 76	187-188
2002	Vol 75	185-186
2001	Vol 74	183-184
2000	Vol 73	181-182
1999	Vol 72	179-180
1998	Vol 71	177-178
1997	Vol 70	175-176
1996	Vol 69	173-174

See AWOL's List of  Spanish/Catalan/Portuguese Open Access Journals on the Ancient World

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Ancient World Mapping Center

[First posted in AWOL 3 October 2012, updated 6 February 2017]

Ancient World Mapping Center

The Ancient World Mapping Center is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Center promotes cartography, historical geography, and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach activities.

The Center invites inquiries from scholars, authors, educators, students, and the general public engaged in (or contemplating) projects related to cartography, historical geography, and geographic information science in the context of ancient studies. AWMC is committed to facilitating discussion, guidance, information exchange, collaboration, and access to cartographic and bibliographic resources in cooperation with such projects.

AWMC continues the work of the Classical Atlas Project that produced the landmark Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (R. J. A. Talbert ed., 2000). With the publication of the print edition of the atlas in 2000, the Center began its work as an institute devoted not only to the continuation of the work of the atlas itself, but also to the advancement of a research agenda focused on the geography of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Center promotes its own independent research projects and also collaborates with scholars to produce maps on specification for scholarly publication. AWMC continues to refine the geographic dataset (both cultural and physical) for the ancient world in partnership with Pleiades.

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Blog of the Fédération international des associations d'études classiques - International Federation of associations for classical studies

Blog of the Fédération international des associations d'études classiques - International Federation of associations for classical studies

On this page, we will present information of different kinds on what goes on in the classical world. Please feel free to send information about congresses, conferences, job advertisements, anything that you want to spread to fellow classicists around the world, and we will do our best to update the information on this page. Please send your information via fiecnet@gmail.com.

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News: CDLI data up for download

CDLI data up for download

Good news for tech-inclined Assyriologists and computational methods enthusiasts. CDLI catalogue data are now available in a non-proprietary format, and a daily copy of both catalogue and transliterations are at your disposal.

The daily packages can be found at http://cdli.ucla.edu/bulk_data as well as https://github.com/cdli-gh/data. To access previous daily copies, simply navigate through earlier commits on Github.

Note that MS Excel does not well handle comma-separated value files encoded in UTF-8. In order to open the catalogue in Excel, you must first start the software and then use the import feature, specifying the encoding.

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Open Access Journal: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete

Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete : Fachzeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. Berlin : de Gruyter, 1.1886 - 34.1922; N.F. 1=35.1923/24 - 10=44.1938

Bd. 1 (1886)  Bd. 2 (1887)  Bd. 3 (1888)  Bd. 4 (1889)  Bd. 5 (1890)  Bd. 6 (1891)  Bd. 7 (1892)  Bd. 8 (1893)  Bd. 9 (1894)  Bd. 10 (1895)  Bd. 11 (1896)  Bd. 12 (1897)  Bd. 13 (1898)  Bd. 14 (1899)  Bd. 15 (1900)  Bd. 16 (1902)

Bd. 17 (1903)  Bd. 18 (1904-05)  Bd. 19 (1905-06)  Bd. 20 (1907)  Bd. 21 (1908)  Bd. 22 (1909)  Bd. 23 (1909)  Bd. 24 (1910)  Bd. 25 (1911)  Bd. 26 (1912)  Bd. 27 (1913)  Bd. 28 (1914)  Bd. 29 (1914-15)  Bd. 30 (1915-16)  Bd. 31 (1917-18)  Bd. 32 (1918-19)

Bd. 33 (1921)  Bd. 34 (1922)  Bd. 35 (1924)  Bd. 36 (1925)  Bd. 37 (1927)  Bd. 38 (1929)  Bd. 39 (1930)  Bd. 40 (1931)  Bd. 41 (1933)  Bd. 42 (1934)  Bd. 43 (1936)  Bd. 44 (1938)  Register

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