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Experimenting with the ISAW AI Librarian

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.

Spotlighting Islamic Spain Through NYU's Library Collections

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.

Professor Peter Cobb (Hong Kong University) visits ISAW to discuss Augmented and Mixed Reality in Archaeological Fieldwork

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.

The ISAW Library launches new public events series

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

Pieces of the “Partial Puzzle”: Notes on editing a journal special issue on ancient data

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.