Tom Elliott @telliott@scholar.social

Oh, don't mind me, just cleaning an HTML file for import into the CMS that has collaborative editing and review functionality, which HTML file is an export from a Word file that's been modified by a bunch of people and sent around in email and used manual formatting instead of track changes and that was clearly created from an earlier word file that must go back years and that somebody who doesn't know how word styles worked set up originally. La la la.

Oaster, Brian. “How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape.” High Country News, 54.5, May 1, 2022. https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landscape.

"Place names and the stories behind them define how we perceive and connect to landscape. But we live in a world populated by places named for colonizers... Can we even see the land underneath those names, in all its complexities? And what is the impact on the mind — especially the Indigenous mind — of..."

#toponymy

For new folks, you can get a daily dose of #AncientHistory direct from the primary sources by checking out @ryanfb's #OnThisDay: he posts an ancient document on #papyrus dated to today's date in a year long ago. Today's post concerns an allegation of clerical error (with financial consequences) in official pottery accounts in third century BCE Egypt: https://botsin.space/@ryanfb/108311721626808784

I just added an article to the #PleiadesGazetteer entry for the ancient site of Nineveh:

Campana, Stefano, Matteo Sordini, Stefania Berlioz, Massimo Vidale, Rowaed Al-Lyla, Ammar Abbo al-Araj, and Alessandro Bianchi. “Remote Sensing and Ground Survey of Archaeological Damage and Destruction at Nineveh during the ISIS Occupation.” Antiquity 96.386 (April 2022): 436–54. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.14.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874621

#AncientPlace #archaeology

I see that the Centre for #DigitalHumanities at University College London is publicizing an online lecture entitled "Central Asia and the role of digital #heritage inventories". The speaker is Tim Williams (Professor of #SilkRoads #Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology). The lecture will occur at 19 May 2022, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm London time. More information and to register in advance (required): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/events/2022/may/ucldh-online-central-asia-and-role-digital-heritage-inventories

In the #PleiadesGazetteer, we've recently started including some names in the Linear B writing system (supported in Unicode). Our font family is NotoSans. The names appear fine on recent MacOS with FF, Chrome, and Safari, and on recent Windows FF, but not in recent Windows Chrome (or Edge). Anybody know if there's an up-to-date workaround for this scenario?

Example page: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/238779098

We have a new, promising contender for "ticket of the year":

"There is a very confused pigeon in the large conference room. The windows are open, but it doesn’t seem to be able to figure out how to get to them."

Southerly Mag has put together a links list to voter guides and candidate information in upcoming primary elections across the American south: https://southerlymag.org/2022/05/06/voter-guides-southern-state-primaries/

It looks like botsin.space is making progress toward returning to service: https://cybre.space/@muffinista/108294565256626767

Thanks to a boost by @SerThomas , I see that the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte (State #Museum of #Prehistory) in Halle (in Germany's Sachsen-Anhalt state) is now in the fediverse: https://mastodon.social/@MuseumHalle/108248266638342123

It is the current home (among other things) of the famous "Nebra Sky Disk".

#archaeology #GLAM

Lazyweb query. Do I know anybody who has successfully set up Drupal with Apache and mySQL on Ubuntu LTS in AWS and has had to work through (and remembers how) mySQL install errors for which all the stackoverflow howtos don't work? Colleague and I could use a pointer or two if you've got 'em.