Full DescriptionAncient Near East and the Mediterranean World |
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| Title: | Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World |
| Alternate Title: | NEH Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World |
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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/dl/proj/neh2/ 
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| Description: |
Project to digitize approximately 36 volumes from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections. This digital project was part of a larger project that preserved almost 9,000 volumes in this subject area. Other preservation options in the project included microfilming and physical treatment. In this demonstration portion of the project, the library explored methods of digitizing and providing access to bound volumes that included both text and illustrations. All digitization work on this project was performed in house. EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) is the Library's home for page-turned image-based texts created for the project. It was primarily built to house the Ancient Near East and Classics titles and includes a small number of other page-turned items. This is no longer seen as the larger home for the Library's digitized books and is not being actively developed. One can navigate through the texts by way of a digital table of contents or by locating a particular page from the book's indices or list of plates and entering the number into the page navigator. EOS books are not full-text searchable. Pages captured at 300 dpi, 8-bit grayscale; LZW compressed TIFF files were saved from Adobe Photshop and stored on CD. High and low resolution JPEG files were derived for display on web browsers. Access is provided via digital book software by The ARTFL Project using a database keyed in by library staff. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, the University of Chicago Library has completed a project that preserves deteriorated research materials relating to the history, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and the ancient Mediterranean world. Materials published between 1850 and 1950 were drawn from the Library's outstanding Ancient Near East and Classics Collections. The Library addressed the preservation and access needs of the collections using three options: microfilming of 2,420 volumes, rebinding and providing enclosures for 6,530 volumes and digitizing thirty-five volumes. |
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| Subjects: |
Middle East. Mediterranean Region. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | Classical Studies |
| Geographic Coverage: |
Asia (continent) Europe (continent) |
| Time Period: | Ancient (3300BCE-467CE) |
| Objects Represented: | Texts |
| Format: | image/jpeg |
| Interaction with Collection: | Browse |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| Notes: | History, art, archaeology, Near East, Mediterranean, digital collections, language, law, religions, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Nubia, Persia, Anatolia, Fertile Crescent. |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 10/18/2007 10:02:47 AM |
| Hosting Institution: | University of Chicago |
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| Notes: | Ancient Near East and Classics Collections of the University of Chicago Library. |
| Projects Associated with Digital Collection | |
| There are no Projects associated with this collection. | |