Thursday, December 13, 2012

SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts

SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts
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SARIT has two interfaces: Basic Search and Advanced Search . Assistance is available through the Search Term Help.



SARITdisplays Indological texts marked up according to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)guidelines. It uses a modified version of PhiloLogic™, a platform developed by the ARTFL Projectand Digital Library Development Centerat the University of Chicago. PhiloLogic™ is widely deployed in the digital humanities as a full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool for large TEI document collections. Notable installations include Perseus Project Texts Loaded under PhiloLogic™and the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
SARITprovides Indologists with machine readable texts and digital instruments for philological research. Currently text search, retrieval and analysis is available for these works. All texts accessible through the SARITweb interface are available for download .

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Open Access Journal: Asfar

Asfar
Asfar is a new dynamic initiative designed to inspire, provide a platform and offer a support network to young people, students and graduates specialising in and interested by the Middle East.

Through a quarterly e-journal, News updates, and a Travelers Network, Asfar will work with the next generation of the Middle East's writers, thinkers and photographers to exhibit their abilities to a wide audience including academia, diplomatic and general readership.
Focusing on the history, society, culture, development and politics of the Middle East, the e-journal will introduce new ideas, innovative articles and magnificent images of the Middle East.

Remaining politically neutral and non-partisan, Asfar articles will cover a full range of topics: from geography to art, languages to society and from history to cookery. Asfar will review the past and consider the Middle East's future from a regional, state and local perspective.

Asfar is unique project aimed at promoting the study of the region, the curiosity and personal development of individuals fascinated by the Middle East and ensuring the sustained awareness of an area on the cross roads of history.
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Domesticating Mountains in Middle Bronze Age Crete

Beckmann, Sabine: Domesticating Mountains in Middle Bronze Age Crete: Minoan Agricultural Landscaping in the Agios Nikolaos Region. PhD Thesis 2012 - Vol. I - II - Appendices
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"Over 300 dwelling sites in the mountains of north-east Crete (Agios Nikolaos), datable (by surface pottery and lithics) mainly to the Middle Bronze Age (the Minoan Protopalatial period, ca.2000-1650 BCE) were discovered and studied. 
Sites were isolated but not more than 300 m (average) apart from each other and interconnected with a network of paths. Most ruin foundations were built with massive block masonry (named “oncolithic” in this study), while long enclosure-walls claimed areas of several thousand square meters (up to 6 hectares) for each habitation, including arable and rocky land. The setting and massive construction of these enclosures, (originally more than a meter high  and with a total length of ca 150 km), show that they belonged to the sites. These features were mapped with GPS and used for the GIS study of land use and topography.
Archaeologists in the past believed a few of the then known sites (ca. 5, while enclosures and connecting paths were unknown) situated on the old roads, to have been defensible forts or watch-towers because of their so-called “monumental” or “Cyclopean” masonry, but this study shows that the massive settlement including landscape opening (landnam) and structuring (covering an area of ca. 30 sqkm min.) must have been used for mixed agriculture/animal husbandry.
The area has been re-used by mixed agriculture (emphasis on pastoral economy) from the second half of the 19th century. Data gained from ethnoarchaeological study are used to corroborate and classify archaeological findings. "
 
Publication Date: Dec 12, 2012
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Linear B tablets as never before seen (RTI)

On behalf of John Bennet
Linear B tablets as never before seen
The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has recently launched a website on the "Sir Arthur Evans Archive" providing a first, basic, overview of its holdings. Although not to item level, the website is a welcome addition and promises to be a very useful tool for Aegean Archaeology (especially for those interested in Minoan archaeology and its history). The website is based on the work of Dr Yannis Galanakis (formerly the curator for the Bronze Age Aegean collections and the Sir Arthur Evans archive at the Ashmolean and currently Lecturer in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Cambridge). One of the innovations of the website, instigated by Dr Galanakis in collaboration with Oxford's RTI team (Dr Jacob Dahl, Klaus Wagensonner and Nicholas Reid), is the digitization of the museum's small, but representative, Linear B collection from Knossos. The technology applied (RTI: Reflectance Transformation Imaging) allows for the best possible reading of these tablets online as it were under a completely new light:  


With the RTIViewer (free to download - following instructions in the webpage given above), you can access the Linear B photographs by cutting and pasting the url into the application (using the globe and folder icon to the right of the main screen of the RTIViewer). The images can be enlarged to magnificent effect and the lighting changed to make readings clearer and to see fingerprints and erasures. This resource should prove extremely useful for teaching and this form of visualisation may pave the way for future research in the field. For comments on the web site please contact the Ashmolean's webmaster at webmaster@ashmus.ox.ac.uk.
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BoneCommons

BoneCommons: An online community building and sharing resources for archaeozoology
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BoneCommons is an ICAZ-sponsored project developed by the Alexandria Archive Institute. Launched in May 2006, BoneCommons facilitates discussion and contact between zooarchaeologists worldwide by offering forums where ICAZ members can post papers, images, teaching resources, questions and comments.

All content on BoneCommons, while owned by the creator of the content, is openly viewable by the general public worldwide. Anyone can search BoneCommons and view its content. Please note that content contributions and comments are moderated, so there is a short delay between submission and posting. BoneCommons moderators reserve the right to reject any content they deem inappropriate for this site.
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Two in-progress bibliographies: Old Georgian, Hagiography

Two in-progress bibliographies: Old Georgian, Hagiography
 From Adam McCollum's blog hmmlorientalia
For a little while I’ve been compiling bibliographic material with Zotero on 1) Old Georgian and 2) Eastern hagiography. With the hope that they might be useful to others, I’ve made them publicly viewable (adding and editing is restricted). Please note: neither bibliography is even nearly comprehensive, and I add new items regularly! Of course, corrections, suggestions, and additions may be sent to me by email (but for additions, please note that an item’s current absence from the list does not necessarily indicate my ignorance of it; i.e. I have an ongoing mental list of things to include)...  Here they are: Old Georgian and Hagiographia orientalis. As you have need, check them by browsing, searching, or using the tags, and subscribe to the feed, if you like. Share freely!

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

LES FOUILLES de M. RAYMOND WEILL à TELL-GEZER (1914 et 1924)

LES FOUILLES de M. RAYMOND WEILL à TELL-GEZER (1914 et 1924): Le mémoire perdu et retrouvé de Mme SILBERBERG-ZELWER (1892-1942)
Publication de deux campagnes de fouilles archéologiques conduites par M. Raymond Weill à Tell Gezer (1913 – 1924)

Le catalogue a été réorganisé suivant la hiérarchie suivante :
- Les Tombes
- Les planches
- N° dans la planche
Cette classification a été reportée dans le texte révisé du mémoire, tant au niveau des figures que de l’analyse des céramiques (style, réalisation, pâte, décor).
1. Les documents ressaisis
- Mémoire révisé de Paula Silberberg-Zelwer
- Tableau chronologique des tombes de Gezer (présentation du tableau, condensée en une page)
- Catalogue des mobiliers des tombes révisé (voir ci-dessus)
- Planches
2. Les documents originaux numérisés
a) Mémoire de Paula Silberberg-Zelwer (en deux fichiers)
Le manuscrit de Paula Zelwer-Silberberg – partie 1, partie 2, chapitres 1 et 2 Le manuscrit de Paula Zelwer-Silberberg – partie 2, chapitre 3
b) Tableau chronologique des tombes de Gezer (calque original puis saisie numérique conforme)
c) Catalogue des mobiliers
d) Planches
3. Photographies de Paula Silberberg-Zelwer
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