From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #4 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Friday, January 9 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 004 anenews DSS BIBLIOGRAPHY SEARCH SERVICE anenews GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES anenews Call for Submissions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:51:18 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews DSS BIBLIOGRAPHY SEARCH SERVICE Forwarded, with permission, from the Orion list. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx BIBLIOGRAPHY SEARCH SERVICE The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as part of its ongoing Complete On-Line DSS Bibliography Project, will be offering a bibliography search service. We currently have 1259 entries on DSS and close to 5000 in the areas of Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Among the DSS entries, priority is given to works published after 1995, as we will eventually publish the full bibliography, starting where F. Garcia Martinez and D.W. Parry's _A Bibliography of the Finds in the Deset of Judah 1970-95_ ends. Details: This service will be offered, on a trial basis, for the month of FEBRUARY ONLY. This will enable us to see whether there is sufficient interest and whether our staff can handle queries. Initially, the service will be free. After February, we will decide whether this will be on barter/subscription basis or whether to discontinue it. Searches may be requested on the basis of key-words, DSS manuscripts, authors, dates, etc. If you are requesting a key-word search, we suggest that you consider your choices carefully, so that your search is not too broad or too narrow. Responses will be given via e-mail, using text file attachments. If your mailer does not read attachments, then we may put it in the body of the text if it is not too long a document. The format will be .txt and the citation format will be Chicago Manual of Style. Accuracy cannot be guaranteed, as we are only human, but we will do our best. The 2nd Temple/Early Christianity references have been culled from several scholars at the Hebrew University and have not been verified, except to weed out duplicates and obvious errors. This service differs from our web site bibliography in some respects. Our web site bibliography is devoted to current bibliography, and so does not have many older works posted. This service will offer far more search options than our current web site allows (i.e., searches on 4QFlor, pesher, works pre-dating 1995). ***** We encourage and welcome additions to our bibliography, especially anything written after 1995. New additions will also be added to our on-line bibliography on our web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. Please send any entries to msdss@mscc.huji.ac.il, with "bibliography" in the subject line. Thank-you. Dr. Avital Pinnick head, Bibliography Project Orion Center ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:46:54 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES GETTY THESAURUS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES RELEASED Introducing the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names The Getty Information Institute is pleased to announce the release of its latest vocabulary tool, the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN). Described as "an important and promising start in efforts to create a unified source for geographic name information around the globe," the TGN is intended to be a source of geographic names for documenting and retrieving cultural heritage information. For example, geographic names may be used to record the current location of an art object, its place of origin and the sites of an artist's birth, activity and death. The TGN is the product of eight years of research and is based on data provided by several Getty projects. The nearly 900,000 places in the TGN are arranged in a hierarchical structure representing all nations of the modern world. This hierarchy is arranged from broader to narrower context (e.g., continents, nations, states, provinces, cities etc.). The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a place may also contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes. The TGN is available in three formats: on the Web, as tagged ASCII files, and in relational tables. The Web version is available at . The relational tables and tagged ASCII files will be available upon request in early 1998. The TGN will be expanded with the addition of new names and historical places. While we continue to collaborate with various Getty contributors, the growth of the TGN depends on our forming partnerships with other institutions interested in contributing their expertise to the development of the resource. CONTACTS If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the TGN, please contact the Getty Information Institute's Vocabulary Program at (310) 440 6364 or send e-mail to . Comments and questions about the TGN may be sent to . The Vocabulary Program also plans to host several training sessions on the TGN. If you are interested in training, please e-mail . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:48:01 -0600 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Call for Submissions Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: "Eric H. Cline" Call for Submissions: The "Arti-Facts" section of _Near Eastern Archaeologist_ (formerly _Biblical Archaeologist_) is now being edited by Eric H. Cline. Any and all interested scholars are hereby invited to contribute short manuscripts (no more than 250-750 words, plus at most one or two photographs or illustrations with captions) on topics dealing geographically with the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean (i.e. Anatolia, Cyprus, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syro-Palestine) and from all time periods. Manuscripts can be concerned with any relevant topic within the above limits; especially, but not limited to: a) notes of new finds or discoveries b) ideas which do not merit a longer article but which are of interest c) short rebuttals to articles published in previous issues and/or letters to the editor d) announcements of important conferences Contributions may be submitted by E-mail (ecline@stanford.edu) or in hard copy if supplemented by a version on diskette for either IBM or MAC (c/o Eric. H. Cline, Area One Program, Building 200, Room 31, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2024). If accepted, publication will follow shortly. Please feel free to repost this Call for Submissions to other relevant outlets (it has been sent initially only to the ANE, Aegeanet, ASOR-L, AIA-L, GreekArch, and RomeArch discussion lists). Sincerely, Eric H. Cline ********************************************************** * * * Eric H. Cline, Ph.D. * * * * Editor, NESTOR * * * * "Arti-Facts" Section Editor, * * _Near Eastern Archaeologist_ * * * * Address for 1997-98 Academic Year: * * * * Area One Humanities Program * * Building 200, Room 31 * * Stanford University * * Stanford, CA 94305-2024 * * * * Office Telephone: (650) 723-9364 * * Email: ecline@stanford.edu * * * ********************************************************** ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1998 #4 ****************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html