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The ancient past as a game setting: Abstraction and accuracy
by Gabriel McKee | 02/10/2020
Turning historical geography into a playable game board usually requires distorting real space. This March, a conference at ISAW will explore what's at stake in the tension between abstraction and accuracy in designing and playing board games, video games, and role-playing games.
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Brill includes new statement on the ethics of publishing provenanced texts
by David Ratzan | 01/22/2020
The academic publishing giant Brill includes a new statement on the ethics of publishing provenance in its editorial handbook for authors.
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Library exhibition on "A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate"
by Gabriel McKee | 11/11/2019
In celebration of ISAW’s latest exhibit "A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate," the ISAW Library is proud to announce a miniature exhibition of books and artifacts related to excavations at Babylon and the construction of the Ishtar Gate.
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Digital Libraries, Papyri, and Archaeological Data
by js11376@nyu.edu | 11/04/2019
Introductory blog post from new Assistant Research Scholar in the ISAW Library, Jasmine Smith, on her current projects and previous work as a graduate student.
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The ISAW Library welcomes Jasmine Smith and Christian Casey
by David Ratzan | 10/28/2019
The ISAW Library welcomes Jasmine Smith and Christian Casey to the ISAW Library team. Jasmine Smith is our new Asst. Research Scholar for Digital Initiatives and Christian Casey is ISAW's inaugural CLIR Fellow.
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ISAW Library New Titles: March-April 2019 and Update
by Gabriel McKee | 10/28/2019
An update on upcoming changes to the ISAW Library's New Titles Map, as well as details on the 470 items acquired and accessioned by the library in March and April, 2019.
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ISAW Library New Titles: January-February 2019
by Gabriel McKee | 07/02/2019
Items acquired and accessioned by the ISAW Library during the months of January and February 2019, including works on Central Asia and the Achaemenid and Sasanian Near East.
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ISAW Library research on geographic search published
by Gabriel McKee | 04/17/2019
A paper describing the ISAW Library's recent work in creating a geographic search interface has been published in the journal Information Technology and Libraries. The paper, by ISAW's Librarian for Collections & Services Gabriel Mckee, details how the ISAW Library has leveraged Linked Open Data (LOD) to integrate book cataloging, map creation, and bibliographic search.
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Materia Conference at ISAW, April 5, 2019
by David Ratzan | 04/03/2019
ISAW and the ISAW Library is co-hosting the third MATERIA workshop on April 5, 2019. MATERIA: New Approaches to Material Text in the Ancient World is a series of workshops presenting new research on books and other media in antiquity. These events bring together speakers from across the country and variety of classical disciplines—history, literature, epigraphy, papyrology, archeology, manuscript studies, etc.—to explore the intersections of classical texts and material culture.
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