rant: msword, html, cleanup, you know
span span span the crap, until you lose your mind ... merrily merrily merrily, life oh ain't it fine?
rant: msword, html, cleanup, you know
And did I mention this is an emergency, unplanned, hurry up, compliance requirement?
rant: msword, html, cleanup, you know
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.
place identity: Indigenous and colonizers' names
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..."
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
cultural heritage destruction: ISIS, Nineveh
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.
online lecture: Central Asia and the role of digital heritage inventories
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
help req: unicode windows chrome
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
uspol: primary voter guides for southern states
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".
Hey @steko, is https://www.gortinabizantina.it/ gone forever? Wayback's last capture was recent (https://web.archive.org/web/20220312114302/https://www.gortinabizantina.it/), so I guess it was moribund since your post in December 2011?
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Living in Alabama and working for New York University. Care and feeding of https://pleiades.stoa.org.
Black lives matter. Aspiring antifascist in memory of my grandfather.
#archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanHistory #AncientGeography #DigitalHumanities #ISAWNYU
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