Saturday, October 26, 2019

Transparent und digital: 9000 historische Auktionskataloge online

Transparent und digital: 9000 historische Auktionskataloge online
In einem gemeinsamen Digitalisierungs- und Erschließungsprojekt haben die Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, die Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg und das Getty Research Institute 9000 historische Auktionskataloge von mehr als 390 Auktionshäusern in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz aus dem Zeitraum zwischen 1901 und 1945 vollständig erfasst, digitalisiert und erschlossen – insgesamt rund 650000 Seiten, die nun im Volltext katalogübergreifend recherchierbar sind. Das Projekt „German Sales“ macht damit die für die Kunstmarkt- und Provenienzforschung unverzichtbaren Quellenressourcen erstmals open access verfügbar.
Diese enorme Arbeitserleichterung für die Provenienzforschung wurde in einer exemplarischen transatlantischen Zusammenarbeit realisiert. Die unterschiedlichen Arbeitsschritte – Recherche und Zusammentragen der Kataloge, Anfertigen von durchsuchbaren Scans, Aufbereitung der Katalogeinträge – wurden zwischen den Projektpartnern in Berlin, Heidelberg und Los Angeles aufgeteilt.  
Auktionskataloge sind eine wichtige Quelle für die Provenienzforschung, weil sie Objektbiographien, Akteure und Orte des Kunsthandels identifizier- und rekonstruierbar machen. Dr. Hanna Strzoda, Provenienzforscherin bei den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, erklärt: „Vor allem Zeichnungen und Druckgraphiken wurden zwischen 1933 und 1945 von den Museen häufig auf Auktionen erworben. Die seltenen Kataloge müssen jetzt nicht mehr mühsam in Bibliotheken gesucht werden, sondern sind direkt vom Schreibtisch aus zugänglich. Das ist eine immense Arbeitserleichterung. Es vergeht für mich kein Arbeitstag ohne Stippvisite bei German Sales."

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Friday, October 25, 2019

Open Access Journal: Le Sycomore: Revue de traduction biblique

Le Sycomore: Revue de traduction biblique
ISSN: 1814-5825
A l’époque de Jésus, le sycomore était une source d’ombre, de fruit et de bois. Une fois, un homme est monté dans un sycomore pour mieux voir la source de la Vie. Cet arbre a donné son nom à ce journal qui veut rafraîchir et nourrir la pensée des traducteurs et fournir des matériaux pour construire une bonne traduction permettant à ses lecteurs et à ses auditeurs de mieux voir la source de la Vie.
Le Sycomore est une revue scientifique traitant de plusieurs domaines d’enquête qui contribuent à la pratique de la traduction de la Bible, par exemple, la linguistique, l’anthropologie, l’exégèse, la théologie, la philologie, la théorie de la traduction, l’utilisation des Saintes Ecritures. Cette revue est publiée au nom de l’Alliance biblique universelle et en partenariat avec la SIL. Son comité éditorial comprend des spécialistes internationaux en traduction de la Bible. Les contributions proviennent pour la plupart de traducteurs de la Bible et de conseillers en traduction de la Bible, mais aussi de pratiquants et de théoriciens dans tout domaine apparenté. Un langage non technique est visé pour atteindre un public large parmi les traducteurs de la Bible, les institutions académiques et les églises, et pour permettre à toutes les parties prenantes d’entrer en dialogue.

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Articles

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Compte-rendu de conférence

undefinedConférence francophone sur la traduction de la Bible, Burkino Faso

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Open Access Journal: The Byzantinist: The Newsletter of the Oxford Byzantine Society

 [First posted in AWOL 20 March 2014, updated 25 Octoberf 2019]

The Byzantinist: The Newsletter of the Oxford Byzantine Society
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The Oxford Byzantine Society is a graduate student run organisation which provides support and information for graduate students of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Oxford University. It also provides opportunities for graduate students to present their work to their peers from institutions across the globe and acts as a hub for the sharing of information about job opportunities, studentships, conferences and seminars as well as publications and resources. Members of the society in Oxford can also expect to meet for drinks, dinners and trips.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019

Arab Settlements: Tribal structures and spatial organizations in the Middle East between Hellenistic and Early Islamic periods

Arab Settlements: Tribal structures and spatial organizations in the Middle East between Hellenistic and Early Islamic periods
Author: Nicolò Pini.
Paperback; xii+252 pages; 88 figures, 13 plates. 97 2019. Available both in print and Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781789693614. Epublication ISBN 9781789693621.

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How can the built environment help in the understanding of social and economic changes involving ancient local communities? Arab Settlements aims to shed light on the degree to which economic and political changes affected social and identity patterns in the regional context from the Nabatean through to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. Settlement analysis is understood to be a crucial tool for accessing the local material culture and characterising the specific identities of the concerned societies. For this purpose, the author compares eight case studies across the Middle East, considering their spatial organisation over a long period (2nd – 9th centuries AD). For the interpretation of the remains, the anthropological concepts of ‘segmented societies’ and ‘pastoralism’ are fundamental, providing possible explanations of some spatial patterns attested in the case-studies. The idea of ‘Oriental’ settlements underscores the marked continuity in the organisation of the buildings and the use of space revealed on different levels between the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. Furthermore, the label of ‘Arab settlements’ is proposed in this context, highlighting the direct connection between social identities and built environment, with a direct reference to the development of an ‘Arab’ identity.

About the Author
Nicolò Pini PhD (Cologne, 2017) is external Research associate with the Islamic Archaeology Unit at the University of Bonn and collaborates on several projects in the Near East (among which Tall Hisban in Jordan and Khirbet beit Mazmil near Jerusalem).

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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus ® (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ® (TGN), the Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN), the Cultural Objects Name Authority ® (CONA), and the Iconography Authority (IA) are structured resources that can be used to improve access to information for art, architecture, and other material culture. Through rich metadata and links, it is hoped that the Getty vocabularies will provide a powerful conduit for research and discovery for digital art history and related disciplines.
  • Cataloging: The Getty vocabularies may be used as data value standards at the point of documentation or cataloging. In this context, they may be used as a controlled vocabulary or authority by the cataloger or indexer; they provide preferred names/terms and synonyms for people, places, and things. They also provide structure and classification schemes that can aid in documentation.
  • Retrieval: They may be used as search assistants in database retrieval systems and more broadly in a linked environment. They are knowledge bases that include semantic networks that show links and paths between concepts; these relationships can make retrieval more successful.
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  • Linked Open Data (LOD): The Getty vocabularies are constructed to allow their use in linked data. Releasing the Getty vocabularies as Linked Open Data is part of the Getty's ongoing effort to make our knowledge resources freely available to all. The AAT, TGN, and ULAN are now available as LOD. They are published under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) 1.0.

    Making the Getty vocabularies available to the research community as LOD is having a truly transformative effect on the discipline of art history in general, and on Digital Art History in particular.

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Datenbank zur jüdischen Grabsteinepigraphik

Datenbank zur jüdischen Grabsteinepigraphik
logo epidat: epigraphische Datenbank
Die Datenbank zur jüdischen Grabsteinepigraphik epidat dient der Inventarisation, Dokumentation, Edition und Präsentation epigraphischer Bestände. In digitaler Edition online zugänglich sind gegenwärtig 202 digitale Editionen mit 35891 Grabmale (75632 Bilddateien). Nicht zugänglich sind 1042 Datensätze zu Grabmalen, die nach dem Jahr 1949 errichtet wurden.

Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age

Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age
The aim of the project ‘Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age’ is to develop and digitally publish (at http://lldb.elte.hu/) a comprehensive, computerized historical linguistic database that contains and manages the Vulgar Latin material of the Latin inscriptions found in the regions of the Roman Empire (Illyricum, Gallia, Britannia, Germania, Hispania, Italia, Africa, Roma and eastern provinces). This will allow for a more thorough study of the regional changes and differentiation of the Latin language of the Imperial Age in a wider sense and for a multilayer visualization of the discovered structures concerning linguistic geography. The project is going to be realized with the collaboration of the Latin Department of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and the Lendület (‘Momentum’) Research Group for Computational Latin Dialectology of the MTA Research Institute for Linguistics supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office NKFIH (former Hungarian Scientific Research Fund OTKA; no. K 124170 2018-2021, K 108399 2014-2017, K 81864 2010-2013 and K 62032 2006-2009) and by the ‘Momentum’ Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2015-2020).


Publications

Forthcoming

2019

2018

2017

Vágási, T.: Iupiter Dulcenus
Adamik, B.: Potential Greek influence on the Vulgar Latin sound change [b] > [β]: Dialectological evidence from inscriptions
Barta, A.: A Letter to the Underworld: A Research Report on the Curse Tablet Aq-2.
Gonda, A.: The Aquincum–Salona–Aquileia Triangle: Latin language in the Alps–Danube–Adria region
Tantimonaco, S.: Applied Computational Latin Dialectology: first results from the Conventus Pacensis (South Portugal)
Adamik, B.: First International Workshop on Computational Latin Dialectology, April 7–8, 2016, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Adamik, B.: A vulgáris latin /b/ és /w/ fúziójának össze-függése a magánhangzóközi /w/ kiesésével a feliratos anyag tükrében
Barta, A.: Levél az alvilágba. Az Aq-2 átoktábla (Előzetes jelentés)
Gonda, A.: Az Aquincum–Aquileia–Salona háromszög: latin nyelv a római birodalom Alpok–Duna–Adria régiójában
Adamik, B.: A palatalizáció szerepe a vulgáris latin [w] > [β] hangváltozásban
Adamik, B.: On the Vulgar Latin merger of /b/ and /w/ and its correlation with the loss of intervocalic /w/: Dialectological evidence from inscriptions

2016

Zelenai, N.: “Libertae isdem coniugi T. Licinius”. Az idem névmás megkövesedésének problematikája
Adamik, B.: The frequency of syncope in the Latin of the Empire: A statistical and dialectological study based on the analysis of inscriptions
Adamik, B.: A vulgáris latin /b/ és /w/ fúziójának esetleges görög hátteréhez: dialektológia a kontaktológia szolgálatában
Adamik, B.: Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of the Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age: Search and Charting Modules
Barta, A.: Ito Pater, Eracura és a kézbesítő: Előzetes jelentés egy újabb aquincumi átoktábláról
Barta, A.: New Remarks on the Latin Curse Tablet from Savaria
Gonda, A.: Fehér Bence: Pannonia latin nyelvtörténete. Budapest 2007

2015

Adamik, B.: A számítógépes latin dialektológia régi-új útjain: a vulgáris latin magánhangzó-fúziók, a szinkópa és a hangsúly korrelációja
Adamik, B.: A szinkópa gyakorisága a kései latin nyelvben a feliratok tanúbizonysága alapján
Barta, A.: Ito Pater, Eracura and the Messenger: A Preliminary Report on a New Curse Tablet from Aquincum
Gonda, A.: Aquincum latin nyelve

2014

Adamik, B.: In Search of the Regional Diversification of Latin: Changes of the Declension System According to the Inscriptions
Adamik, B.: A számítógépes latin dialektológia műhelyéből: az esetrendszer átalakulásának területi különbségei a feliratos anyag tükrében
Jekl, Á.: Cambiamenti fonetici nel latino della provincia della Moesia Inferior

2012

Adamik, B.: In Search of the Regional Diversification of Latin: Some Methodological Considerations in Employing the Inscriptional Evidence
Adamik B.: A császárkori feliratok vulgáris latin nyelvi adatainak dialektológiai érvényessége

2010

Adamik, B.: In memoriam Herman József: A Késő latin nyelvtörténeti adattártól a Császárkori latin feliratok számítógépes nyelvtörténeti adatbázisáig

2009

Adamik, B.: In Memoriam József Herman: von der Late Latin Data Base bis zur Computerized Historical Linguistic Database of Latin Inscriptions of the Imperial Age
Barta, A.: The Language of Latin Curse Tablets from Pannonia: A New Curse Tablet from Aquincum
Kiss, S.: Tendances évolutives du latin tardif dans la Britannia romaine (d’aprés les inscriptions)
Fodor, K.: Changes of the Latin Language in Aquitaine as Reflected by the Inscriptions
Ötvös, Zs.: The Latin of the Inscriptions in Narbonensis: Some Phonetic Characteristics
Adamik, B.: Bonae Memoriae József Herman: “Du latin épigraphique au latin provincial” Symposium zur Sprachwissenschaft der Lateinischen Inschriften