Alexandria Archive Institute, Inc. (San Francisco, CA 94127-2036)
Eric C. Kansa (Project Director: March 2011 to August 2013)
HD-51425-11
Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants
Digital Humanities
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Totals:
$49,707 (approved)
$49,707 (awarded)
Grant period:
9/1/2011 – 2/28/2013
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Gazetteer of the Ancient Near East
The creation of the Gazetteer of the Ancient Near East, a geospatial index of archaeological sites and ancient historical places in the Near East, through the use of the Pleiades project software.
This grant will support the creation of the Gazetteer of the Ancient Near East. The project’s goal is to develop an authoritative, open access geospatial index of archaeological sites and historical places in the Near East, spanning some twelve thousand years (c. 12,500-600 BCE). The project is based on software developed by the Pleiades project (http://pleiades.stoa.org/), an extant and successful model for open access Web-based gazetteers. By developing a gazetteer of Ancient Near East places, researchers will be able to link events, persons, and archaeological evidence through shared notions of place and time. Thus, this project will help scholars to bring together disparate lines of historical and archaeological evidence. In doing so, this project represents critically needed infrastructure to catalyze research in the Ancient Near East and serves as an exemplar for open, collaborative scholarship.
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