New Classical Art Resources – CLAROS and ArtStor

Late last week the new CLAROS digital image system debuted.  This open project, based at Oxford with many international partners, provides access to digital images of classical art (and other collections). The images are searchable and browseable, with multiple facets possible (i.e., one can show all  skyphoi from Vulci).  Of special interest are the image-matching searches, available for classical sculpture and pottery, which use digital technology to examine an image you upload or link to and find matches in the CLAROS database.  The project also makes use of structured metadata (RDF, JSON, KML) and advanced users can create detailed SPARQL queries.

Not new, but new to UGA subscribers, we now have access to ArtStor (link takes you through the UGA system and will ask for a password if you are off campus).  This resource includes high-quality digital images with good metadata from museums and other collections around the world.  The site is searchable and browseable, and the creation of a free account allows the user to save images in groups and download sets of images to use offline.

From Claros: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/recordDetails.asp?id=236C2446-5C9D-4DC9-8A02-8EB1095C6F48

End of Semester Wrapup/Madness

I am officially finished with spring semester 2011, and hope you are coming to that place too (I know many UGA faculty are still grading like mad – graduation is Friday and non-senior grades aren’t due until Tuesday; some friends elsewhere have been finished for several days now, and people on a quarter system are just chugging along.)

Let’s take a moment to bid farewell to the spring by way of the wackiest exam madness story I heard: Students released 18 chickens and 2 roosters into the Emory Library.  This is hilarious, unless you’re the one who has to clean up after it (or you’re one of the chickens).

I celebrated this morning by resetting 18 Kindles to their factory settings, and just met with my colleague to set up a (fierce!) schedule for drafting the results of this spring’s Kindle experiment.  That’s one of the six projects currently on my summer list; the others include migrating (a lot of) content to a new software, organizing the library’s participation in 26 new student orientation fairs (UGA is a big school; they do orientation all summer), and doing a big push forward on the Ancient World Open Bibliographies project (I should really count that as two or maybe 3 projects by itself).  (Possibly I should also abuse parentheses less.) Summer for librarians is not that different from summer for faculty – that 2 or 3 days of “phew, I’m done!” immediately followed by “okay, here’s what I’ve got to do next.”  Wading in…

UGA Libraries Classics-Related Acquisitions: April 2011

In the four weeks since my last post on this topic, the UGA Libraries added 5140  items to the Main Library collection. Works of interest to those in Classics and related fields include the following (in LC call number order):

• Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: an introduction and collection of sources in translation
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B111 .P47 2010
• Hemlock cup: Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life,  Hughes, Bettany.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B316 .H84 2011
• Cambridge companion to Socrates
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B317 .C35 2011
• Socrates, Rudebusch, George, 1957-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B317 .R83 2009
• Cratylus of Plato: a commentary, Ademollo, Francesco, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B367 .A93 2011
• Plato and sex, Sandford, Stella, 1966-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B398.L9 S26 2010
• Philosopher’s song: the poets’ influence on Plato, Crotty, Kevin, 1948-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B398.P6 C76 2009
• On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians: drawn out from the origins of the Latin language, Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B3581.D42 E5 2010
• Orphic gold tablets and Greek religion: further along the path
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL785 .O76 2011
• Mystery cults in the ancient world, Bowden, Hugh.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL795.M9 B68 2010
• Power of religion in late antiquity
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR162.3 .P69 2009
• Connaitre l’antiquite: individus, reseaux, strategies du XVIIIe au XXIe sie€cle
  Location: Main Library 4th floor D56 .C66 2010
• Birth of classical Europe: a history from Troy to Augustine, Price, S. R. F.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor D57 .P75 2010
• Monde de l’itinerance en Mediterranee de l’antiquite a l’epoque moderne: procedures de controle et d’identification: tables rondes, Madrid 2004-Istanbul 2005
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DE2.5 .M653 2009
• Classical tradition
  Location: Main Library 1st floor Reference Main Ref DE60 .C55 2010
• Archaologische Forschungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Ephesos in geometrischer, archaischer und klassischer Zeit: Grabungsbefunde und Keramikfunde aus dem Bereich von Koressos, Kerschner, Michael.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DF261.E5 K47 2008
• From Roman to early Christian Thessalonike: studies in religion and archaeology
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.T49 F76 2010
• War, democracy and culture in classical Athens
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF285 .W3 2010
• Belisarius: the last Roman general, Hughes, Ian, M.A.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF572.8.B4 H84 2009
• Archeologia preromana in Emilia occidentale: la ricerca oggi tra monti e pianura, Milano, 5 aprile 2006
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG55.E54 A73 2009
• Decorazione pittorica nei contesti funerari della Sicilia: III-IV secolo d.C , Cipriano, Giuseppina.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG55.S5 C55 2010
• Roma illustrata: representations de la ville: actes du colloque international de Caen, 6-8 octobre 2005
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG63 .R628 2008
• Santuario di Hera al Capo Lacinio: l’analisi della forma, il restauro e la ricerca archeologica
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG70.C77 S26 2009
• Ancient Rome, Dunstan, William E.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG77 .D86 2011
• Santuario di Vesta: la casa delle vestali e il Tempio di Vesta, VIII sec. a.C.- 64 d.C. : rapporto preliminare
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG133 .S27 2010
• Ecritures, cultures, societes dans les necropoles d’Italie ancienne: table ronde des 14-15 decembre 2007
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG223.7.T6 M68 2007
• Umbrorum gens antiquissima Italiae: studi sulla societa e le istituzioni dell’Umbria preromana, Sisani, Simone.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG225.U52 S57 2009
• From the Gracchi to Nero: a history of Rome 133 BC to AD 68, Scullard, H. H. (Howard Hayes), 1903-1983.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG254 .S35 2011
• Great fire of Rome: the fall of the emperor Nero and his city, Dando-Collins, Stephen.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG285.3 .D36 2010
• Europe’s barbarians, AD 200-600,  James, Edward, 1947-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG312 .J365 2009
• Bronze Age cemeteries at Karmi Palealona and Lapatsa in Cyprus: excavations by J.R.B. Stewart
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DS54.3 .B765 2009
• Herakleides: a portrait mummy from Roman Egypt, Corcoran, Lorelei Hilda, 1953-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DT62.M7 C67 2010
• Taste or taboo: dietary choices in antiquity, Beer, Michael.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GT2850 .B44 2010
• Western Roman Atlantic facade: a study of the economy and trade in the Mar Exterior from the Republic to the Principate
  Location: Main Library 5th floor Folio HF377 .W39 2010
• Inside the city in the Greek world: studies of urbanism from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT384.G8 I576 2009
• Freedman in the Roman world, Mouritsen, Henrik.
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT731 .M68 2011
• Colonne de Marc Aurele, Depeyrot, Georges.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NA9340.R4 D46 2010
• Roman imperialism and civic patronage: form, meaning, and ideology in monumental fountain complexes, Longfellow, Brenda, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA9413.R57 L66 2011
• Waters of Rome: aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the Baroque city, Rinne, Katherine Wentworth.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA9415.R7 R56 2010
• Verwandelte Gotter: antike Skulpturen des Museo del Prado zu Gast in Dresden
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NB87.D73 V47 2009
• Ara Pacis: ein Staatsmonument des Augustus auf dem Marsfeld, Mlasowsky, Alexander.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NB133 .M53 2010
• Catalogo de’ bronzi e degli altri metalli antichi di Luigi Lanzi: dal collezionismo mediceo al museo pubblico lorenese: Firenze, Biblioteca degli Uffizi, ms. 105 con ed. anast. delle tavole di Francesco Marchissi …, Zaccagnino, Cristiana.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NB135.L363 Z33 2010
• Sculpture romane, Gaborit, Jean-Rene.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NB175 .G336 2010
• Studies in classical linguistics in honor of Philip Baldi
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor P26.B33 S78 2010
• Classical dictionaries: past, present and future
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA51 .C54 2010
• Aner Polytropos: ricerche di filologia Greca antica dedicate dagli allievi a Franco Montanari
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA227 .A54 2010
• Language and ritual in Sabellic Italy: the ritual complex of the third and fourth Tabulae Iguvinae, Weiss, Michael L.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA2461 .W45 2010
• Leggere greco e latino fuori dai confini nel mondo antico: atti del I Congresso nazionale dell’Associazione italiana di cultura classica, Lecce, 10-11 maggio 2008 Associazione italiana di cultura classica. Congresso nazionale
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3013 .A78 2008
• Semeion philia : studi di letteratura greca offerti ad Agostino Masaracchia
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3061 .S46 2009
• Traditional elegy: the interplay of meter, tradition, and context in early Greek poetry, Garner, Robert Scott, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3113 .G37 2011
• Ifigenia di Eschilo: filologia e drammaturgia nell’Agamennone, Barbieri, Michele.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3825.A8 B37 2009
• Aesop and the imprint of medieval thought: a study of six fables as translated at the end of the Middle Ages, De Weever, Jacqueline, 1932-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3858 .D4 2011
• Aristophanes and the poetics of competition, Biles, Zachary P., 1968-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3879 .B355 2011
• Aristophanes’ comedy of names: a study of speaking names in Aristophanes, Kanavou, Nikoletta, 1977-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3879 .K36 2011
• Helena, Euripides.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3976 .G3 2010
• Porphyry’s Homeric questions on the Iliad: text, translation, commentary, Porphyry, ca. 234-ca. 305.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4035.P7 Q4713 2011
• Soranos von Ephesos, Peri psyches: Sammlung der Testimonien, Kommentar und Einleitung, Podolak, Pietro, 1979-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4435.S2 P47 2010
• Creative eloquence: the construction of reality in Cicero’s speeches, Gildenhard, Ingo, 1970-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6285 .G55 2011
• Recovering the ancient view of founding: a commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus, Caspar, Timothy W., 1971-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6296.D323 C37 2011
• Per via d’annotationi: le glosse inedite di Alessandro Piccolomini all’Ars poetica di Orazio, Refini, Eugenio, 1984-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6393.E7 P5337 2009
• Vecchio e il serpent : Ovidio, Medea e il ringiovanimento di Esone, Masselli, Grazia Maria.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6519.M9 M37 2009
• Approaches to teaching the works of Ovid and the Ovidian tradition
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6537 .A77 2010
• Ovid, Volk, Katharina, 1969-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6537 .V65 2010
• Petronii Arbitri Satyricon 100-115: edizione critica e commento, Vannini, Giulio.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6559 .V36 2010
• Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6695 .B75 2010
• Virgil, Smith, Alden.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6825 .S633 2011
• Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as theorists of politics and space, Willis, Ika, 1975-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6825 .W5365 2011