Public map on Culture Heritage Documented in Northern Africa & the Sahel
Founded
in 2014, ASOR’s Cultural Heritage Initiatives (ASOR CHI) unites local
communities, heritage professionals, and scholars to protect and promote
cultural heritage and identity in southwestern Asia, northern Africa,
and the Sahel. ASOR CHI’s recent work includes strengthening networks
for the collaborative protection of cultural and religious heritage in
the Sahel and northern Africa through the documentation and promotion of
cultural heritage sites belonging to religious and ethnic minorities.
This initiative has resulted in over 600 heritage sites documented,
including nearly one third of those sites severely damaged or in
disrepair. ASOR has developed an interactive database through Google Mapsto
share ASOR’s efforts widely. We aim to make all project data publicly
available (with permission from partner organizations and institutions).
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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