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Experimenting with the ISAW AI Librarian
by Federico Di Pasqua | 12/16/2024
A guest blog post by Federico Di Pasqua, who spent several weeks in the ISAW Library during the Fall 2024 term experimenting with deploying generative AI to find potential avenues for making ISAW Library collections and data more discoverable and useful.
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Spotlighting Islamic Spain Through NYU's Library Collections
by Mina Turunc | 12/04/2024
To complement ISAW’s new exhibition “Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain,” NYU museum studies interns Mina Turunc and Madeline Baird worked with ISAW curatorial assistant Carl Walsh and Librarian for Collections and Services Gabriel Mckee to design, write, and install two vitrine cases that explored the history of Islamic Spain through NYU Library collections and other media.
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Professor Peter Cobb (Hong Kong University) visits ISAW to discuss Augmented and Mixed Reality in Archaeological Fieldwork
by Sebastian Heath | 11/19/2024
Professor Peter Cobb of Hong Kong University visited ISAW on November 13, 2024 to discuss recent developments in the application of digital technologies to archaeological fieldwork and teaching, specifically around augmented and mixed reality applications. Professor Cobb is a prehistorian and director of the Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP), which is conducted in collaboration with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. He is also an internationally recognized expert in the application of digital technologies to fieldwork and teaching.
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The ISAW Library launches new public events series
by David Ratzan | 10/23/2024
The ISAW Library launched a new public events series in the autumn of 2024. The first two events were a pair of lectures on Greco-Roman Egypt by Toby Wilkinson and Sabine Huebner
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Pieces of the “Partial Puzzle”: Notes on editing a journal special issue on ancient data
by Patrick J. Burns | 07/29/2024
ISAW Library Associate Research Scholar, Digital Project, Patrick Burns, reflects on the nature of ancient world data based on the recent experience of co-editing a special issue of Journal of Open Humanities Data.
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"Teaching Latin with AI" Workshop Follow-up
by Patrick J. Burns | 05/23/2024
On May 2, in collaboration with the New York Classical Club, the ISAW Library hosted a workshop for local K-12 teachers called “Teaching Latin with AI.'' The goal of the workshop was to provide a positive, teacher-focused review of how Large Language Models like ChatGPT can be used to produce a variety of Latin teaching materials, all without knowledge of computer programming or related technical skills.
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Moving forward with Linked Open Data at Pompeii
by Sebastian Heath | 05/08/2024
A retelling of Sebastian Heath's faculty research talk given in April, 2024. This is the first of three planned posts.
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“Re-Rolling the Past” conference publication completed
by Gabriel McKee | 03/04/2024
The proceedings of ISAW’s 2020 virtual conference “Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games” have been published as a special issue of ISAW Papers.
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"Presidents And Their Books" exhibition highlights the influence of the antiquity on American history
by Gabriel McKee | 10/24/2023
The exhibition "Presidents and Their Books: What They Read and What They Wrote," at the Grolier Club through November 11, includes several books that demonstrate the influence of ancient history and literature on American politics.
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