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Why weren’t there any comics in the 1640s?
According to Wikipedia, a comic strip is ‘a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions’ which...
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Manuscript Collation in the 21st Century
It seems worth restating an obvious benefit that the on-line publication of high resolution images of multiple Homeric manuscripts offers. As was made clear to us again and again during our recent two...
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What I've Learned as an Academic Blogger
In 2008, a year after I graduated college and a year into my Masters program, I started JasonHeppler.org.1 My writing here started out slowly, as a visit to the archives can attest. Even so, I never...
View ArticleDumbarton Oaks Syriac resources now online
An interesting email: I write to announce the publication of a new online resource at Dumbarton Oaks aimed at the community of Syriac studies. We have assembled numerous freely available, digitized...
View ArticleCity University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center Digital Initiatives...
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center Digital Initiatives Program Joins DHWI! -- Maryland Institute for Technology in the HumanitiesThe Digital Humanities Winter Institute is pleased to...
View ArticleHunting the wild misquotation – “our Father was crucified”
At Paleojudaica, Jim Davila has an odd story from an Israeli newspaper, featuring a quotation from an ancient author: A VERY ODD STORY from Arutz Sheva: Shocking ‘Land of Israel’ Exam Shows Christian...
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Open Access Journal: IDP News
IDP News (International Dunhuang Project)The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road OnlineIDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts,...
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Collaborative Writing in a Scale-Up Classroom
One of my main goals for this summer is to prepare my spring 2013 (!!) History 101: Western Civilization I class. I am teaching it in the University of North Dakota’s new Scale-up classroom. This is a...
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Digital Preservation in a Box – Have a Look Inside!
The latest project from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance, Outreach Working Group, has now reached a milestone with the public unveiling of a new resource, “Digital Preservation in a Box.” The...
View ArticlePerseus and Classics DH
I am extremely grateful to the folks at Perseus, and to all the others who took the time to reply to my earlier, rather dyspeptic, posts about the Perseus Word Study Tool. A valuable blog post by...
View Article2012 Allied Media Conference: A First Timer’s Thoughts
From June 28th to July 1st, I had the opportunity to attend my first Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan. The conference is put on by the Allied Media Projects (AMP), an organization dedicated...
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My Life in ASOR
By: Jennie Ebeling, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Evansville and Co-Director of the Jezreel Expedition Jennie Ebeling at Jezreel, June 2012 I became a member of ASOR when I...
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Historical Perspective of Trauma in the Southern Levant
Trauma, defined as any injury done to the human body, was most frequently caused by interpersonal violence or conflict in ancient societies. Written documents and archaeological evidence are often used...
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Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People
Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People "Findings from The Asia Foundation's seventh survey in Afghanistan - the broadest public opinion poll in the country of 6,348 Afghan citizens across...
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aspconf
aspconf is next week. aspconf is a new thing, yet an old thing. Hang around and I'll tell you a bit about it. A few years ago we started c4mvc and there was much rejoicing. The video sharing time we...
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Open Access Report: The Anatomy of Egyptian Revolution: From 25th of January...
The Anatomy of Egyptian Revolution: From 25th of January to the New Constitution published by SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research"The “New Egypt” will be shaped to a great...
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Online Bibliographical Guide for Islamic Philosophy and Theology
Brief Bibliographical Guide for Islamic Philosophy and Theologyby Thérèse-Anne DruartA Brief Bibliographical Guide in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology 2010 - 2011A Brief Bibliographical Guide...
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Frequently Asked Questions about crowdsourcing in cultural heritage
Over time I've noticed the repetition of various misconceptions and apprehensions about crowdsourcing for cultural heritage and digital history, so since this is a large part of my PhD topic I thought...
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Hesperia Goes Open Access!
In a notice this morning, Andrew Reinhard, Director of Publications at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has made the following important announcement. Andrew Reinhard and his...
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How Did We Choose Our Harley Science Manuscripts?
The Emperor Charlemagne kneeling in front of a plant pierced by an arrow, in Giovanni Cadamosto's illustrated herbal. The plant is called 'Carlina' and the caption explains that an angel advised...
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