Drunk Archaeology

Drunk Archaeology  
Drunk Archaeology is the podcast featuring archaeologists doing what they do: drinking & talking shop. Join us! 

Welcome to the Drunk Archaeology tumblr for the DA podcast which will premier late in July 2014. Modeled loosely after the wildly popular Drunk History series, Drunk Archaeology will initially be an audio-only podcast featuring archaeologists doing what they do best: drinking and then talking shop. Each week will feature either a one-on-one interview with a drunk archaeologist, or a panel of drunk archaeologists tackling questions about archaeology, cultural heritage, higher education, and theory, not to mention various retellings of ancient tales and a sharing of secrets divulged only by the drunk.

Andrew Reinhard, punk archaeologist without borders, archaeological publisher, and archaeological gamer, will host the podcast each week. Episodes will feature in-depth, drunken discussion, a drunk lightning round of questions, drunk archaeology sing-a-longs, drunk name-that-archaeologist contests, and much, much more. Podcasts will be hosted on Soundcloud and linked to the tumblr and to Twitter. Ultimately there will be YouTube videos, as well as a free podcast channel via iTunes.
If you would like to be on a Drunk Archaeology panel, or want to be interviewed by Andrew on a variety of archaeological topics, or if you have topics or questions that you’d love to have drunk archaeologists answer, send an email to drunkarchaeology@gmail.com. Archaeology-inspired cocktail recipes are also welcome.

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Open Access Journal: Studia Humaniora Tartuensia (SHT): An international online journal of the classics and the humanities

[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2009. Most recently updated 14 July 2014]

Studia Humaniora Tartuensia (SHT): An international online journal of the classics and the humanities

The purpose of Studia Humaniora Tartuensia (SHT) is to publish scholarly papers and notes embodying original research in all areas of the humanities, but especially classical studies and ancient history, Neo-Latin studies, classical tradition, history of scholarship and philosophy. We encourage interdisciplinary contributions and submissions that use new approaches to elucidate their topic. Detailed treatments of specific themes are also welcome. We also publish book notices and reviews. 
 
Studia Humaniora Tartuensia is an open access journal with free full text content. Despite its name the journal is not restricted to contributors from Tartu. We encourage all interested parties to take part in its development. If you are interested in publishing in SHT, you are welcome to contact the editors using either e-mail or postal address. Be sure to check the guidelines for contributors before submitting your article.

Papers are published in PDF format and on-line only. If you cannot access them, download and install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF-documents. This also enables you to view Greek text and other original formatting without problems.

When citing a paper published in SHT, do not forget to include the number of the volume, the letter marking a subdivision (if applicable), and the number of the article.

2013

Vol 14 (2013)

2012

Vol 13 (2012)

2011

Vol 12 (2011)

2010

Vol 11 (2010)

2009

Vol 10 (2009)

2008

Vol 9 (2008)

2007

Vol 8 (2007)

2006

Vol 7 (2006)

2005

Vol 6 (2005)

2004

Vol 5 (2004)

2003

Vol 4 (2003)

2002

Vol 3 (2002)

2001

Vol 2 (2001)

2000

Vol 1 (2000)

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CDLI News: Amarna and Middle Assyrian cuneiform tablets in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

This link displays 825 recently completed archival images of 811 cuneiform tablets in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. The text artifacts were raw-scanned by CDLI research associate Imad Samir, assisted by Chief Curator Achim Marzahn and his VAM staff, and were assembled to fatcrosses, cleaned and posted by us at UCLA. Dr. Samir’s work was materially facilitated by the technical and organizational support of our Berlin partners at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in particular by Jürgen Renn, Director, and Urs Schoepflin, Head of the Library.

Among these files are a good number of images of the famous Amarna tablets. In collaboration with Steve Tinney, we have, further, uploaded the full set of Amarna transliterations submitted by Shlomo Izre’el to the Oracc consortium, with some cleansing of the file done to achieve C-ATF consistency, and in Oracc; to C-ATF).

The larger group of new VAM additions to CDLI consists of images of some 630 Middle Assyrian texts from German-led excavations at Assur and Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta. This addition to our files results in substantial image, though still poor transliteration coverage of the museum’s 1925 Middle Assyrian text artifacts catalogued in CDLI (the total number of mA texts housed in the VAM is unknown to us). Comments, corrections and additions to these online files are of course welcome and should be directed to <cdli@ucla.edu>.

This addition to CDLI files marks the completion of our Mellon Foundation-supported capture of that major European collection.

Open Access Journal: Antiquitatis Notae: Bulletin des sciences antiques du monde méditerranéen

ANTIQUITATIS NOTAE: Bulletin des sciences antiques du monde méditerranéen

Antiquitatis Notae est un bulletin en ligne, consacré à l’Antiquité, qui a pour cadre les civilisations s’étant développées autour de la Méditerranée et pour objectif d’établir des liens entre des disciplines isolées les unes des autres. Le bulletin permettra la diffusion d’informations rapides entre spécialistes. Il est destiné aussi à des non-spécialistes désireux de s’informer dans le secteur de leur choix.

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PRESENTATION 
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(Partially) Open Access Series: Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1-15

Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volumes 1-15 online

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 1 (1898)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 2 (1899)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 3 (1903)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 4 (1904) [Alternative version]
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 5 (1908)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 6 (1908)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 7 (1910)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 8 (1911)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 9 (1912)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 10 (1914)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 11 (1915)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 12 (1916)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 13 (1919)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 14 (1920)
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Volume 15 (1922)

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Editorial: academia.edu and Beyond!

I am a huge fan of academia.edu. I have been promoting it here on AWOL since it was a new service five years ago. It has exploded since then, without any apparent adverse consequenses. I reached my limit of two thousand connections long ago. I've communicated my feeling that limiting any individual's network to two thousand connections is a silly and counter-productive limitation, but they don't listen to me. What that means is that I am limited to seeing the activity of early adopters, or dropping connections to people I'd like to be connected to in order to connect to others. In practical terms it means I don't visit the site very much,  but depend on the push notifications sent when those to whom I am connected upload their scholarship to their profile. And those push notifications are extraordinarily rich! What I see among them more and more of are the full-text facsimiles of articles and books published by commercial publishers. To all appearances, most of these are violations of the copyright agreements signed by the authors with their publishers. In the few cases with which I have some personal connection, the responses by the author to a takedown notice is along the lines of "oh, sorry, I never read the text of the publishing contracts I sign, I just wanted to share".  Sharing is good!

But more and more of these things are from Brill, De Gruyter, Oxford, Cambridge, Springer, Eisenbrauns, Fabrizio Serra, and so on: the core of commercial publication in ancient studies. Despite the fact that ancient studies is seriously small beer in the world of publishing, there are jobs and companies at stake here. It won't be long before these firms take action against academia.edu for their (perhaps passive) complicity in the copyright violation. Then what. Will they fold? How would that be good for you and me?

But here's the real question.  I presume those of you who make your scholarship available in open access on academia.edu do so because you with it to be seen and read by the widest possible audience, possibly informed by an understanding of principles of open access espoused and promulgated by a variety of national and international organizations. If this is the case why not publish in born digital open access publications in the first place? Is it prestige? Never mind,  your work is good, their editors are good, prestige follows your work and their editorial control. But really, support the open access journals. AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies lists 1382 titles today. Find one you like, submit your article. Do it!

ISAW Papers 7: Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World.

ISAW Papers 7

This article is now available at the URI http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/ as part of the NYU Library's Ancient World Digital Library in partnership with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW). More information about ISAW Papers is available on the ISAW website.

ISAW Papers 7 (2014)

Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World

Editors: Thomas Elliott, Sebastian Heath, John Muccigrosso

Abstract: Reports on current work relevant to the role of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the study of the ancient world. As a term, LOD encompasses approaches to the publication of digital resources that emphasize stability, relatively fine-grained access to intellectual content via public URIs, and re-usability as defined both by publication of machine reabable data and by publication under licenses that permit further copying of available materials. This collection presents a series of reports from participants in 2012 and 2013 sessions of the NEH-funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute. The contributors come from a wide range of academic disciplines and professional backgrounds. The projects they represent reflect this range and also illustrate many stages of the process of moving from concept to implementation, with a focus on results achieved by the mid 2013 to early 2014 timeframe.

Subjects: Humanities--Study and teaching.

• 1. Prologue and Introduction (Thomas Elliott, Sebastian Heath and John Muccigrosso)
• 2. Linked Open Bibliographies in Ancient Studies (Phoebe Acheson)
• 3. Linked Data in the Perseus Digital Library (Bridget Almas, Alison Babeu, Anna Krohn)
• 4. Herculaneum Graffiti Project (Rebecca Benefiel and Sara Sprenkle)
• 5. The Homer Multitext and RDF-Based Integration (Christopher Blackwell and D. Neel Smith)
• 6. Moving the Ancient World Online Forward (Thomas Elliott and Charles Jones)
• 7. Linked Open Data and the Ur of the Chaldees Project (William B. Hafford)
• 8. ISAW Papers: Towards a Journal as Linked Open Data (Sebastian Heath)
• 9. Beyond Maps as Images at the Ancient World Mapping Center (Ryan Horne)
• 10. Open Context and Linked Data (Eric Kansa)
• 11. Geolat: Geography for Latin Literature (Maurizio Lana)
• 12. The Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) (Pietro Maria Liuzzo)
• 13. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Camilla MacKay)
• 14. Byzantine Cappadocia: Small Data and the Dissertation (A. L. McMichael)
• 15. Coinage and Numismatic Methods. A Case Study of Linking a Discipline (Andrew Meadows and Ethan Gruber)
• 16. Exploring an Opportunity to Link the Dead in Ancient Rome (Katy Meyers)
• 17. RAM 3D Web Portal (William Murray)
• 18. Assessing the suitability of existing OWL ontologies for the representation of narrative structures in Sumerian literature (Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller)
• 19. Berkeley Prosopography Services (Laurie Pearce and Patrick Schmitz)
• 20. Linking Portable Antiquities to a wider web (Daniel Pett)
• 21. Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Resource (Eric Poehler)
• 22. It’s about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancient World Data (Adam Rabinowitz)
• 23. Publishing Archaeological Linked Open Data: From Steampunk to Sustainability (Andrew Reinhard)
• 24. Mining Citations, Linking Texts (Matteo Romanello)
• 25. Linked Data and Ancient Wisdom (Charlotte Roueché, Keith Lawrence, and K. Faith Lawrence)
• 26. Linked Open Data for the Uninitiated (Rebecca Seifreid)
• 27. Pelagios (Rainer Simon, Elton Barker, Pau de Soto, and Leif Isaksen)
• 28. Linked data and the future of cuneiform research at the British Museum (Jon Taylor)
• 29. Integrating Historical-Geographic Web-Resources (Tsoni Tsonev)
• 30. Moving from Cross-Collection Integration to Explorations of Linked Data Practices in the Library of Antiquity at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels (Ellen Van Keer)

ISAW Papers (ISSN 2164-1471) is a publication of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. The articles in ISAW Papers 7 were considered for publication by Tom Elliott and Sebastian Heath as members of the ISAW staff and faculty.

©2014 The authors. Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported license.