Monday, March 24, 2014

Open Access Journal: ArqueoWeb: Revista sobre Arqueología en Internet

ArqueoWeb: Revista sobre Arqueología en Internet
ISSN: 1139-9201
ArqueoWeb, la primera revista electrónica española especializada en investigación arqueológica, surgió en 1998 de la mano de Ana Piñón Sequeira, óscar López Jiménez, Beatriz Díaz Santana e Ignacio Prieto Vilas, entonces estudiantes de Doctorado del Departamento de Prehistoria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), a los que posteriormente se unió Antonio Uriarte González. Ellos mismos cuentan que fue en el transcurso de un curso impartido por el Dr. D. Gonzalo Ruíz Zapatero, en el que los cuatro primeros coincidieron, donde surgió la idea de crear esta revista y que sin el asesoramiento de dicho profesor todo habría sido mucho más difícil. 

See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

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PHILOCTETES - ΦΙΛΟΚΤΗΤΗΣ

PHILOCTETES - ΦΙΛΟΚΤΗΤΗΣN
Notre site met progressivement en ligne des textes qui fondent notre culture. Il s'agit d'oeuvres qui sont à l'origine de la science, de la politique et de la littérature. Nous publions les textes originaux en grec et en latin avec leurs traductions françaises, anglaises et allemandes.
This site gives reference texts in their original languages (Greek and Latin) and in English and French translations. On the screen the original texts and translations are shown simultaneously.


In English :
THALES : (Greek, English, French)
ANAXIMANDER : (Greek, English, French)
HERACLITUS : (Greek, English, French)
PARMENIDES : (Greek, English, French)
ZENO : (Greek, English, French)
EMPEDOCLES : (Greek, English, French) New
In French :
EUCLID : Elements
HOMER : Iliad
HOMER : Odysseus
AESCHYLUS : Persians (interlinear)
PLATO : Phaidrus
Dictionary of Greek Gods

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Online Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel

 [First posted in AWOL 20 December 2011, updated 23 March 2014]

Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel 
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Digitalisierung des Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel.

Das Projekt wird in Kooperation mit der Forschungsstelle CMS der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz unter wissenschaftlicher Betreuung der Kommission für Archäologie der Mainzer Akademie durchgeführt.

Das 1958 begründete und bisher ausschließlich in gedruckter Form veröffentlichte Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel (CMS), das die wissenschaftliche Edition sämtlicher aus der ägäischen Bronzezeit überlieferter Siegel und antiken Abdrücke in Ton zum Ziel hat, soll bis zum Abschluss des Vorhabens Ende 2011 in seinen wesentlichen Teilen digitalisiert, aktualisiert und kostenfrei im Internet zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Die CMS-Datenbank liefert den digitalisierten Index des 30-bändigen Werkes und dient der Siegelforschung als Instrument zur umfassenden Erschließung des mit vereinheitlichten Begriffen erfassten Fundmaterials. Im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeit, Migration und Vervollständigung soll das Corpus in ein modernes und international gut sichtbares Informationsnetzwerk zur Klassischen Archäologie (Arachne) integriert werden, um die Verstetigung der Arbeitsmöglichkeiten mit dem Material zu sichern, etwa durch die Hinzufügung neuer Funde und die Eröffnung neuer Forschungsperspektiven.


Die von Walter Müller geleitete CMS-Datenbank befindet sich noch in einer Testphase, da die erforderlichen Korrekturen und Nachträge erst bis zum Abschluss des Vorhabens Ende 2011 abgeschlossen sein werden. Im gleichen, noch verbleibenden Zeitraum werden die digitalisierten Abbildungen von Ingo Pini in ehrenamtlicher Tätigkeit überarbeitet und Abdrücke in großer Zahl photographisch neu aufgenommen. Außerdem werden von vielen Siegeln Neuzeichnungen angefertigt.

Das Projekt wird mit finanzieller Unterstützung des Institute of Aegean Prehistory, Philadelphia und der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft durchgeführt.
zum Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel
CMS I - Athen, Nationalmuseum (517 Siegel)
CMS IS - Athen, Nationalmuseum Supplementum (205 Siegel)
CMS II,1 - Iraklion, Siegel der Vorpalastzeit (503 Siegel)
CMS II,2 - Iraklion, Siegel der Altpalastzeit (335 Siegel)
CMS II,3 - Iraklion, Siegel der Neupalastzeit (390 Siegel)
CMS II,4 - Iraklion, Siegel der Nachpalastzeit (239 Siegel)
CMS II,5 - Iraklion, Siegelabdrücke von Phästos (327 Siegel)
CMS II,6 - Iraklion, Siegelabdrücke von Aj. Triada (289 Siegel)
CMS II,7 - Iraklion, Siegelabdrücke von Kato Zakros (262 Siegel)
CMS II,8 - Iraklion, Siegelabdrücke von Knossos (731 Siegel)
CMS III - Iraklion, Sammlung Giamalakis (532 Siegel)
CMS IV - Iraklion, Sammlung Metaxas (382 Siegel)
CMS V - Griechenland, Kleinere Sammlungen (751 Siegel)
CMS VS1A - Griechenland, Neufunde (407 Siegel)
CMS VS1B - Griechenland, Neufunde (482 Siegel)
CMS VS2 - Lamia, Nekropole von Elatia (121 Siegel)
CMS VS3 - Griechenland, Neufunde (483 Siegel)
CMS VI - Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (515 Siegel)
CMS VII - Englische Museen (264 Siegel)
CMS VIII - Englische Privatsammlungen (158 Siegel)
CMS IX - Paris, Cabinet des Médailles (228 Siegel)
CMS X - Schweizer Sammlungen (323 Siegel)
CMS XI - Kleinere europäische Sammlungen (354 Siegel)
CMS XII - New York, Metropolitan Museum (325 Siegel)
CMS XIII - Nordamerika (166 Siegel)
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Online Photographs: Breasted's 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East

 [First posted in AWOL 26 May 2010, updated 23 March 2014]

Breasted's 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East
These 1,875 photographs chronicle Illinois native James Henry Breasted's daring travels through Egypt and Mesopotamia in the unstable aftermath of World War I. Breasted, a leading Egyptologist, was the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and this journey was the first Oriental Institute project. The goals of his ambitious expedition were to acquire artifacts for the new Institute and to select sites for later excavation.
Our Museum's companion exhibit, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-20, is open to the public from January 12 through August 29, 2010.
This photographic exhibit is the third major installment of the Oriental Institute's on-line Photographic Archives. It joins PERSEPOLIS AND ANCIENT IRAN: CATALOG OF EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPHS (967 Photographs from the Oriental Institute's expedition to Iran in the 1930s) and THE 1905-1907 BREASTED EXPEDITIONS TO EGYPT AND THE SUDAN: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY (1055 Photographs from Breasted's travels in Nubia during the years 1905-1907.


And for an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see


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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Musawwarat Graffiti Archive: Exploring Pictures in Place

The Musawwarat Graffiti Archive: Exploring Pictures in Place
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The Musawwarat Graffiti Archive was developed in a collaborative effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Humboldt University Berlin. Its first phase of development during 2011 was financed by the Golden Web Foundation. The Musawwarat Graffiti Archive serves as a case study for the development of a work-bench environment allowing the online publication of large image collections together with related extensive and varied data sets. These data sets are made available for scholarly analysis as well as public appreciation via in an easily accessible web interface.

With the ‘Graffiti in Place Database’ a solution was developed especially for the integration of systematic graffiti-focussed information and of data on the exact spatial contexts in which the pictorial and inscriptional graffiti were created and used. Such space-related data sets are difficult to publish in traditional paper format and thus often neglected in research and publication. The Musawwarat Graffiti Archive thus presents a multi-facetted approach to the open access publication of intricate visual data. In an ongoing process it aims at making accessible the full corpus of graffiti at Musawwarat, thus providing an exemplary platform for barrier-free research into an extensive collection of primary sources on Africa’s past.

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Ancient History Teachers’ Notes

Ancient History Teachers’ Notes
These teachers’ notes are intended to prepare teachers for the new OCR specification by covering the main aspects of each of the optional subjects. They contextualise the prescribed sources and identity which issues and sources are most relevant to the individual bullet points of the specification. They will also give relevant extra background information.
They are designed to complement, rather than replace, the materials provided by OCR. The format of the notes varies depending on their authors. Those for AH2 options 2 and 3 are set out as schemes of work, while the others address the specific bullet points identified in the specification. For other week by week lesson plans/schemes of work, please see the support material booklets provided by OCR. Bibliographies for each of the options are in the Teacher support booklet.
JACT Ancient History Committee
Sept 2008

AH1

AH1 option 1 Democracy AH1 option 2 Delian League AH1 option 3 Sparta

AH2

AH2 option 1 Cicero AH2 option 2 Augustus AH2 option 3 Roman Britain

AH3

AH3 option 2 Conflict AH3 option 3 Culture of Athens

AH4

AH4 option 1 Republic AH4 option 2 Imperial Rome AH4 option 3 Empire
 
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Announcing the Perseus Lexical Inventory

Announcing the Perseus Lexical Inventory – an open linked data set
by Bridget Almas Posted on March 21, 2014
Many different linguistic services and tools are dependent on lexical information as it is commonly found in Latin and Greek dictionaries. Most of these applications rely on their own implementation of dictionaries, stem databases etc. but there is no centralized open-access resource on which these services can draw for supporting data. The Perseus Digital Library is releasing its lexical data as an open linked data set, starting with Latin and to be followed by Greek,  in the hopes that it may eventually become such a resource. Work on producing this data set has been a collaborative effort, and would not have been possible without the guidance of Neel Smith of Holy Cross and Helma Dik of the University of Chicago.

The core of the Perseus Lexical Inventory is a CITE collection of Lexical Entity URIs. Each Lexical Entity identifier has associated properties including a normalized form of the lexical entity (or lemma) and a short definition.   The accompanying linked data set includes links between the Lexical Entity URIs, morpheus lemmas, and entries in the Lewis and Short lexicons on Perseus, Alpheios and Logeion.  A VOID file describing the data set is available at http://data.perseus.org/ds/lexical/void and a SPARQL endpoint for querying the data set is at http://services.perseus.tufts.edu/fuseki/sparql.html.   There is also a simple demonstration query form that looks up entries based upon the Latin form at http://perseids.org/tools/lexical/query.html.  The Tufts Morphology Service (currently available at http://services.perseids.org/bsp/morphologyservice ) also supplies the corresponding Lexical Entity URIs for lemmas returned by Morpheus.

Subsequent updates to the data set will include links to ontologies and other collections of uniquely identifiable entities, including part of speech, lexical tokens or forms, stems, prefixes and suffixes, morphological analyses, metrical data, orthographical variants, and named entities.  The lexical entities and tokens will also be linked to their occurrences in dictionaries and other lexica, texts (i.e. of the Perseus corpus, among others), treebanks, etc. Finally we expect to link to other established and emerging data sets, including the Pleiades Gazetteer and the SNAP dataset of ancient prosopography, among others.

Our ultimate goal is for the lexical data sets to be completely open with various channels, including both user interfaces and service-based APIs, through which people and systems can contribute new data and corrections.
In keeping with the approach we have been taking with the release of our data (see the Perseus Catalog’s Roadmap towards Linked Data standards compliance) we are releasing the data knowing we have much work to do still, and will make progress towards the larger vision in incremental steps.  Our next steps will include release of a companion Greek Lexical Inventory, followed by the addition of the stem and lexical token data sets and development of APIs and interfaces for using and contributing to the data.
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