Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Open Access Journal: Osnabrücker Online-Beiträge zu den Altertumswissenschaften

 [First posted in AWOL  5 November 2009, Updated13 February 2018]

Osnabrücker Online-Beiträge zu den Altertumswissenschaften
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Die Osnabrücker Online-Beiträge zu den Altertumswissenschaften stellen ein neues Instrument dar, kleinere Beiträge aus dem großen Spektrum der Altertumswissenschaften sowie auch deren Rezeptionsgeschichte schnell und ohne großen formalen Aufwand zu publizieren. Sie wollen dazu beitragen, daß die in anderen Wissenschaftszweigen und im Ausland längst übliche elektronische Form der Publikation auch in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft und Archäologie Verbreitung findet, zumal sie Veröffentlichungen möglich macht, die bisher leider oft aus Kosten- und Sachzwängen unterbleiben mußten. Die ersten der hier aufgenommenen Beiträge stehen noch - naheliegenderweise - in einem direkten Zusammenhang mit den Ausgrabungen in Kalkriese, doch soll sich dies schon bald ändern. Vor allem Studierende und jüngere Wissenschaftler aus dem gesamten Bereich der Altertumswissenschaften sind daher aufgerufen, Beiträge in unserer Reihe zu publizieren.

 Formal ist lediglich darauf zu achten, daß die eingesandten Beiträge keine Formatierungen enthalten (besondere Formatierungswünsche sind in einem Ausdruck kenntlich zu machen). Dem Text kann eine Literaturliste folgen. Wo es sinnvoll erscheint, sollten dem Text mit Bildunterschriften und Herkunftsnachweis versehene Abbildungen in einem gängigen Grafikformat (gif, jpg, tif) beigegeben werden.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Osnabrücker Online - Beiträge zu den Altertumswissenschaften

  • 1. 1987 - 1997 - Zehn Jahre Kalkriese (G. Franzius; 1/1999)
  • 2. P. Quinctilius Varus - Das Bild des Verlierers
    (B. R. v. Wickevoort Crommelin; 2/1999)
  • 3. Frauen und lixae im militärischen Umfeld (S. Oelschig; 3/1999)
  • 4. Die römische Eroberung Britanniens (S. Korb; 4/2001)
  • 5. Die Tres Epistulae A. Sabini - antik oder humanistisch? (B. Geise; 5/2001)
  • 6. Berichte antiker Historiographen über die "Schlacht im Teutobuger Wald" (clades Variana) - in Relation zu Funden und Befunden der neuesten archäologischen Ausgrabungen in Kalkriese (B. Schneider; 6/2002)
  • 7. Areopagite Domination and the Forgotten Reform of Ephialtes
    (F.X. Ryan; 7/2003)
  • 8. The Solonian Denomination for the Eliaia (F.X. Ryan; 8/2003)
  • 9. Geschichte machen. Kurze Skizzen von Geschichtsschreibern und Geschichtsschreibung im Alten Rom (J. Lauenstein; 9/2004)
  • 10. Die Liebesaffaire mit Dido und der Unterweltsgang mit der Sybille
    (Th. Gärtner; 10/2004)
  • 11. Zur augusteischen Germanienpolitik (K. Matijević; 11/2006)
  • 12. Die erotische Konzeption des Küssens im Spiegel ihrer Terminologie: Drei Fallbeispiele aus der römischen Liebesdichtung (Th. Gärtner; 12/2006)
  • 13. Benefiziarierweihung auf einer Bronzetafel aus Eisenberg/Pfalz (Th. Kreckel/H. Bernhard; 13/2007)
  • 14. Die Hymnoden des asianischen Kultes der Dea Roma und des Divi filius Augustus - Anmerkungen zu einer Berufsgruppe innerhalb der kultisch-religiösen Kaiserverehrung (Th. Witulski; 14/2011)
  • 15. Stellas Ringe, Stellas Amouren. Zu Martial V 12 (M. Wenzel; 15/2011)
  • 16. Die lateinischen Inschriften der Sammlung Gotha (S. Leiniger/W. Spickermann; 16/2012)
  • 17. Strategien von Fremdzuweisung und Selbstidentifikation im antiken Ostalpenraum (M. Handy; 17/2015)
  • 18. Völkerwanderungszeitliche Grabfunde mit künstlicher Schädeldeformation  Eine Bestandaufnahme österreichischer Befunde (A. Schmölzer; 18/2016)
  • 19. Ovid als  Konjekturalkritiker (Verg. Aen. 3,70 und Ov. met. 13,630) (A. Heil; 19/2016)
  • 20. Er bringt sich um Kopf und Kragen: zu Martial VI 26 (M. Wenzel; 20/2018)
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    Monday, February 12, 2018

    British Library Maps at Pelagios Commons

    British Library Maps at Pelagios Commons
    Liber Insularum Cycladum (Arundel MS 93.art.7, f.157v)
    During Phase 3 of Pelagios (2014/2015) we worked with various sources to  encompass “Early Geospatial Documents” – including early Christian Mappae Mundi and pilgrimages, Portolan charts, and Islamic and Chinese maps. In collaboration with the team at the British Library, and funded by the A W Mellon Foundation, the following digital sources are available to download and use. Each is accompanied by an XML and Excel file containing catalogue information relating to each image.
    Cornaro Atlas
    Digitised Cornaro Atlas. Egerton MS 73
    This dataset comprises of 37 images from a Portolano executed by different Venetian artists between 1489 and 1492, known as the ‘Cornaro Atlas’
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21250/pel01
    Insularium Illustratum
    Digitised Insularium Illustratum. Additional MS 15760
    This dataset comprises of 123 images from the Insularium Illustratum, an account of the islands of the Mediterranean, and of some others produced by Henricus Martellus Germanus in 1495.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21250/pel02
    Liber insularium Arcipelagi
    Digitised Liber insularum Arcipelagi Cotton MS Vespasian a.XIII.art.1
    This dataset comprises of 82 images from the Liber insularum Arcipegelagi, an illustrated account of the islands and major ports of the Mediterranean produced by Christophori Bondelmonti around 1422.
    DOI:     https://doi.org/10.21250/pel03
    Liber insularium Cycladum
    Liber insularum Cycladum. Arundel MS 93.art.7
    This dataset comprises of 45 images from the Liber insularum Cycladum produced by Christophori Bondelmonti around 1422.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21250/pel04
    Maps after Ptolemy’s Geographia
    Maps after Ptolemy’s Geographia. Burney MS 111
    This dataset comprises of 68 images from a Greek manuscript edition of Ptolemy’s Geography containing many diagrams and coloured maps, and produced between the 1375 and 1425.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21250/pel05
    Portolano
     Portolano. Egerton MS 2855
    This dataset comprises of 7 images from a Portolano produced in 1473 by Grazioso Benincasa.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21250/pel06
    Single Sheets and Supplementary Materials (A selection of individual maps and non-map based medieval materials such as travel accounts).
    This dataset comprises of 30 images selected among individual maps and non-map based medieval materials such as travel accounts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21250/pel07
    Note: Due to the extreme sizes of some of the zip archives (often well in excess of 4GB), we recommend using a dedicated zip archive application, to open and extract these datase
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    Pelagios Commons

    [First posted in AWOL 12 April 2016, updated 12 February 2018]

    Pelagios Commons
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    What is Pelagios Commons?
    Pelagios Commons is a community & infrastructure for Linked Open Geodata in the Humanities.
    What does that mean exactly? Linked Open Data is an old idea that is slowly coming of age. Essentially Linked Data is a way of connecting online resources that have something in common. To some extent this occurs already with standard HTML hyperlinks, but these provide only unilateral (one-directional) links between specific documents. The technologies behind Linked Open Data allow us to introduce meta-links that create multi-lateral connections between clusters of content related to a specific concept. In our case that concept is geographic (hence geodata): Pelagios links historical materials through their common reference to particular places.
    In what way is it a community?
    The Web is just as much a human phenomenon as a technical one. Any initiative that proposes to link resources together is inherently social in nature. If we are to form healthy ecologies of dynamically interacting Web resources, we must collaborate to establish processes which create long-lasting mutual benefit. Pelagios Commons offers online forums and real world events which allow anyone with an interest in connecting the past together to get involved. No technical experience is required (although techies are extremely welcome too!). Pelagios Commons is also part of a wider ecosystem of projects dedicated to interlinking online resources about the past.
    In what way is it an infrastructure?
    Like the Web, Linked Open Data should be decentralised. That is, everyone contributes something, and there is no ‘master’ system which controls everything behind the scenes. Nevertheless, to help everything play together nicely, we need tools and services which help people create links and make use of them. Pelagios Commons focuses on addressing current process bottle-necks, rather than building an end-to-end product. Our contributions include the following freely available resources:
    Recogito, a tool that makes it easy to identify, record and export as Linked Open Data the places referred to in historical texts, maps and tables; Peripleo, a search service that allows you to find community-curated content related to specific places; Pelagios Map Tiles, a set of resources that allow you to project data onto dynamic maps dedicated to different historical periods.

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      Transforming Perceptions of Cultural Heritage through Image

      Transforming Perceptions of Cultural Heritage through Image
      Connecting the Premodern to the Local 
      The focus of this project is to parallel through photography the ancient to medieval cultural heritage stories from other countries to the cultural heritage stories of local communities, particularly centered on New England and Fitchburg, MA. Cultural heritage is the manifestation of common human experiences, and, by drawing these parallels, we can emphasize those connections and the shared need for preservation and the study of the past.
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      Roman Open Data

      Roman Open Data
      A Data Visualization & Exploratory interface built in the framework of the ERC Advanced Grant Project EPNet, to foster the exploration of one of the richest database for amphorae and epigraphy, promoting the Open Science principles and practices in the context of Digital Humanities.
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      Sunday, February 11, 2018

      Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber

      Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber
      Matteo Romanello, Gabriel Bodard (eds.)
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      Edited by organizers of “Digital Classicist” seminars in London and Berlin, this volume addresses the impact of computational approaches to the study of antiquity on audiences other than the scholars who conventionally publish it. In addition to colleagues in classics and digital humanities, the eleven chapters herein concern and are addressed to students, heritage professionals and “citizen scientists”.

      Each chapter is a scholarly contribution, presenting research questions in the classics, digital humanities or, in many cases, both. They are all also examples of work within one of the most important areas of academia today: scholarly research and outputs that engage with collaborators and audiences not only including our colleagues, but also students, academics in different fields including the hard sciences, professionals and the broader public. Collaboration and scholarly interaction, particularly with better-funded and more technically advanced disciplines, is essential to digital humanities and perhaps even more so to digital classics. The international perspectives on these issues are especially valuable in an increasingly connected, institutionally and administratively diverse world.

      This book addresses the broad range of issues scholars and practitioners face in engaging with students, professionals and the public, in accessible and valuable chapters from authors of many backgrounds and areas of expertise, including language and linguistics, history, archaeology and architecture. This collection will be of interest to teachers, scientists, cultural heritage professionals, linguists and enthusiasts of history and antiquity. 
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      Landscapes and monuments: Iran to Spain

      Landscapes and monuments: Iran to Spain
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      Garth Fowden is a historian of first millennium CE Eurasia, who in pursuit of his interests has travelled extensively in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa. For the greater part of his career he has lived and worked in Greece. This site presents a digitized version of the photographic archive he developed while conducting research on the landscapes and monuments of these regions.
      Fowden was born in Norwich in 1953. He first visited the Middle East - Lebanon and Jordan, especially Jerusalem - in 1966 when his father was working in Beirut. After completing his secondary education he spent a year (1970-71) in the employ of the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, George Appleton. A few photographs survive from this early experience of the landscapes, archaeology and religious life of Jerusalem and Palestine. In 1971 Fowden embarked on his undergraduate and then doctoral studies at Merton College, Oxford. From 1978 to 1983 he was a research fellow at Peterhouse and subsequently at Darwin College, Cambridge. He briefly taught Byzantine and Modern Greek History at Groningen, and in 1986 moved to a research position specializing in the Greek East at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. In 2013 he became the first holder of the Sultan Qaboos Chair of Abrahamic Faiths in the University of Cambridge. The social aspect of intellectual and religious life in late Antiquity has been a permanent focus of his books and articles, but always informed by his interest in the material culture, archaeology, art and epigraphy of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, especially Athens, Lycia, Constantinople, Greater Syria and Egypt. More recently, the rise of Islam in relation to the ancient cultures and empires of Iran and Rome has become the main focus of his work. All these concerns are documented and illuminated in the archive here presented.
      From 1977 Fowden began to travel systematically in the Middle East including Turkey, but photography did not become a priority until 1986. The latest items in the archive date from 2007. The main regions covered are Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iran and Yemen, and less extensively Spain, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. The strengths of the collection, reflecting Fowden's research and teaching interests at different periods, are: 
      - the relationship between settlement and landscape; 
      - fortification, and the evolution of the urban tissue, especially in the late Roman period; 
      - religious architecture, especially the conversion of holy places, monasticism, and the emergence of Islam; 
      - art and epigraphy preserved in architectural or archaeological contexts;
      - traditional  domestic architecture. 
      Within each site, the photographs are arranged in a sequence designed to convey some sense of a physical visit, sometimes starting and/or ending with more general shots of the surrounding landscape and of the routes that traverse it. Photographs taken on site are occasionally supplemented by items from museums or print publications designed to make the collection more suitable for teaching purposes.
      The documentation of Palmyra, Aleppo (where Fowden spent the first half of 1996 as the guest of the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim), and the Yemen, has particular value and poignancy in the light of recent events. Even more than war, though, it has been urbanization, the construction of dams, and the extensive irrigation of formerly arid areas, that has transformed the region in recent decades. Many of the places recorded will be inaccessible to foreign visitors for the foreseeable future, and are anyway changed beyond recognition.
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