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CALL TO HELP UPDATE THE PEUTINGER MAP VIEWER

August 30, 2021 in E-resource, Interest, News

The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the
Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest
from freelance and contract web developers interested in a small project to
replace an online viewer for the so-called “Peutinger Map” of the Roman World.
The current HTML+JavaScript web application has been in production on the Web
since 2011, providing a seamless “pan and zoom” interface to a raster image of
the map, with switchable SVG layers highlighting thematic features. Raster tile
services were implemented in the application using the free and
open-source Djatoka server application, which is now defunct.

We seek a developer or small team to replace the application with a new software
stack that makes as much use as possible of off-the-shelf, free and open-source
code as possible, and that leverages applicable widely-used standards like the
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

Interested parties should email ISAW’s Tom Elliott (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) — not
later than 6pm US Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 — in
order to indicate their interest in learning more about the scope of the project
and its technical aspects. Elliott will organize a prospective vendor
teleconference or other forum for questions during the month of October, after
which AWMC will solicit proposals for completion of the work. Meantime, the code
has been posted to GitHub for review by interested parties.

This call supersedes that made on September 21, 2020.



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2020-2021 ANNUAL REPORT

May 28, 2021 in Report

5-1-2020 to 4-30-2021

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER (http://awmc.unc.edu)

The year will be remembered for an exceptional mix of developments: on the one
hand, impressive productivity achieved remotely in the face of Covid’s
continuing impact; on the other, the emergence of serious obstacles beyond the
Center’s control that impair its effectiveness.  To be sure, these were only to
be expected sooner or later, and can even be regarded as a tribute to the
Center’s success.  Nonetheless they pose tough challenges to overcome.

The quantity and range of commissioned mapping undertaken for monographs and
articles proved very high.  Requests fulfilled included one map and two plans
for Mary Boatwright’s Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context (Oxford
University Press), four maps for Mark Thatcher’s The Politics of Identity in
Greek Sicily and Southern Italy (also Oxford UP), two for Judith Barringer’s
Olympia: A Cultural History (Princeton UP), three for Fred Naiden and
co-editors, A Companion to Greek Warfare (Wiley Blackwell), as well as one or
two maps each for Hilary Becker, Edmund Thomas and Everett Wheeler.

There was equally strong demand for acquiring and reproducing the Center’s own
maps (still free of charge for non-commercial use).  Notably, Stanislav Doležal
was licensed to reproduce several Roman Empire maps in his Konstantin: Cesta k
moci (Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích). The many requests for Asia
Minor in the Second Century C.E. came from users in Germany, Scotland, South
Africa, Turkey and US.  The seven Wall Maps were sought by educators and
students at all levels in Australia, Brazil, Netherlands, United Kingdom and US
for display in classrooms or use in presentations.  Requests were also met for
incorporating data into educational and commercial projects.  In particular, the
Center partnered with Barnard College’s Empirical Reasoning Center to provide
shapefiles for students taking its course “Society and Environment in the
Ancient World.”  These shapefiles were used in QGIS workshops to create maps of
the ancient landscape.  Roman roads data was supplied to Roman Podkolzine for
integration into his Time Travel Rome mobile app.

There has been intensive effort to prepare revised maps and plans, along with
accompanying texts, for the Atlas of Classical History in its new form co-edited
by Richard Talbert, Lindsay Holman and Benet Salway (University College London),
with the involvement of contributors old and new.  Drafting was again ably
undertaken by Coleman Cheeley, joined this year by Hannah Shealy and Faith
Virago; Bryanna Ledbetter prepared gazetteers for completed maps.  To illustrate
progress, Holman and Talbert offered a presentation “Ancient History Course Maps
Transformed by Advances in Cartography” for the poster session of the
Archaeological Institute of America (virtual) annual meeting; viewers reacted
very positively, and shared helpful observations.  The goal now is to deliver
all materials to Routledge ready for production by December 2021.

Miguel Vargas completed the project he began last year to create a map
(1:750,000 scale), with directory, that plots the spread of Catholic and
Donatist bishoprics across North Africa by the early fifth century CE.  This
addition to the Center’s Maps for Texts series is due for release once its
review is concluded.

With the collaboration of experts and of IUPUI students, Prof. Elizabeth Wolfram
Thill has continued to organize the scans of Great Marble Map of Rome fragments
made in partnership with the Center and the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni
Culturali, Roma Capitale, for online presentation in a format acceptable to the
latter.  Naturally, under present circumstances no further teamwork in Rome
itself was possible.

To overcome serious unforeseen delay arising from Covid, the Center granted
modest emergency funds to the University of Leicester, U.K., enabling Prof.
Graham Shipley to complete and deliver to Cambridge University Press – by fall
2020, as planned – his pathbreaking, long-awaited Geographers of the Ancient
Greek World, 35 texts translated by 14 scholars, with commentary.  Because of
Covid’s onset Shipley was suddenly recalled to the classroom early, and could
not then expect to resume the final stage of editing before 2022.  His work is
of exceptional value for a clearer understanding of the ancient landscape.

During the year, two resources offered by the Center ceased to function as they
should.  The Djakota tool which is vital for Map A on the Peutinger Map site is
now considered outmoded by its provider and thus no longer maintained.  For
similar reasons Mapbox has ceased to support the landscape base on which the
Center’s Map Tiles depend.  Any map using Map Tiles is affected in consequence,
including the one being prepared to accompany the translation of Pliny the
Elder’s geographical books (Natural History 2 to 6 and more) by Brian Turner and
Richard Talbert, now due for publication by Cambridge University Press in early
2022.  Work on this map has been suspended while the Center strives to identify
and install satisfactory replacements for both resources affected.  How soon
that can be achieved, however, is as yet impossible to predict, and the delay is
made all the more regrettable by the extensive reliance placed on both by users
worldwide.  Fortunately, the Center’s Antiquity-A-La-Carte remains unaffected,
although it cannot form the basis of an interactive map.

Special thanks are due to all – and to Director Lindsay Holman in particular –
for maintaining the Center’s momentum undaunted throughout a year when no
physical access to it was possible.   Bryanna, Hannah and Faith – who is
graduating, as is Coleman – have never set foot there.  They, and Miguel, have
all performed excellently from remote locations, and those not returning will be
truly missed.  Thanks are owed to the History Department for temporarily
assigning the Center an office which could be used for some meetings and for
storing materials.

Lindsay Holman continues as Director, with Richard Talbert remaining in charge
as research professor.

 

Lindsay Holman

Richard Talbert



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NEW BOOK OF INTEREST

February 12, 2021 in Interest, Publication

This is volume 1 of the first-ever Russian translation of Pliny’s Natural
History.  There is a concise apparatus criticus for the Latin text, and concise
notes accompany the translation.





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SERVICE UPDATES

January 26, 2021 in Interest, News

The Center is aware with much regret that two resources it offers are no longer
functioning as they should. Unfortunately, in both instances the problems which
have arisen lie outside the Center’s control. The Djakota software package which
facilitates the functioning of Map A on the Peutinger Map site is now considered
outmoded by its provider and thus no longer maintained. Consequently, the
background image of the map itself no longer functions. Similarly, Mapbox.com
has ceased to support the data format used to create and deliver the Center’s
Map Tiles. Any map using Map Tiles is affected in consequence (such as that
developed in association with Duane Roller’s translation of Strabo, Geography).

Please be assured that the Center is striving to identify and install
satisfactory replacements which will enable these resources to resume
functioning. How soon that can be achieved, however, is as yet impossible to
say.

Also be assured that the Center’s Antiquity-A-La-Carte is not affected by
similar problems, and should continue to function smoothly.

A further update will follow when there is progress to report.



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NEW BOOK OF INTEREST

December 1, 2020 in Interest, Publication

Daniela Dueck’s Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome is now
available from Routledge.





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HELP UPDATE THE PEUTINGER MAP VIEWER

September 21, 2020 in E-resource, Interest, News

The Ancient World Mapping Center, in collaboration with the Institute for the
Study of the Ancient World at New York University, seeks Expressions of Interest
from freelance and contract web developers interested in a small project to
update components of an online viewer for the so-called “Peutinger Map” of the
Roman World. This HTML+JavaScript web application has been in production on the
Web since 2011, providing a seamless “pan and zoom” interface to a raster image
of the map, with switchable SVG layers highlighting thematic features. Raster
tile services were implemented in the application using the free and
open-source Djatoka server application, which is now defunct. We seek a
developer or small team to replace the raster tile functionality with a modern,
maintainable open-source solution, and to repackage the entire application for
easier server-side deployment, but with minimal modification to the rest of the
software stack.

Interested parties should email ISAW’s Tom Elliott (tom.elliott@nyu.edu) — not
later than 6pm US Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, October 1st, 2020 — in
order to indicate their interest in learning more about the scope of the project
and its technical aspects. Elliott will organize a prospective vendor
teleconference or other forum for questions during the month of October, after
which AWMC will solicit proposals for completion of the work. Meantime, the code
has been posted to GitHub for review by interested parties.



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2019-2020 ANNUAL REPORT

June 18, 2020 in Report

5-1-19 to 4-30-20

ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER (http://awmc.unc.edu)

This year remained an impressively active one throughout for the Center, above
all because mapmaking could still continue remotely during the campus lockdown
from mid-March onwards.   Preparation of the revised edition of the textbook
Atlas of Classical History saw accelerated progress, and there was expansion of
the scope of the working partnership with Rome’s Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai
Beni Culturali.

A variety of maps were made on commission as usual, not only for monographs and
articles, but also for the Ishtar Gate exhibition at the Institute for the Study
of the Ancient World, New York University. Commissions included a map of Judaea
for Anthony Keddie’s Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels
forthcoming from University of California Press, and one of India and Bactria
for Alexander Meeus and Kai Trampedach’s volume on Alexander the Great in the
Steiner series Studies in Ancient Monarchies.  The number of requests for
acquiring and reproducing the Center’s maps showed a marked rise this year.  In
particular, the seven Wall Maps – which continue to be offered in digital format
without charge for non-commercial purposes – have been in high demand from
instructors and students at both school and college levels worldwide, most
notably in Australia, Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom and US.

Miguel Vargas joined the Center to implement a project envisaged last year for
the Maps for Texts series and now well advanced by him: a map, with directory,
that plots the spread of Catholic and Donatist bishoprics across North Africa as
documented in the record of the Carthage ‘conference’ in 411 CE.  To date, maps
by others for this purpose (notably by Serge Lancel) have all been kept
unsatisfyingly small-scale by a print-only format, in grayscale moreover.  The
Center’s map in color on a physical landscape base at 1:750,000 – scale chosen
to match that of Asia Minor and Black Sea in the Maps for Texts series – offers
distinct improvement; its extraordinary elongation creates no obstacle for
digital production and presentation.

The interactive map in preparation by Gabriel Moss and Ryan Horne to accompany
the forthcoming translation of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History Books 2 to 6
and more by Brian Turner and Richard Talbert is close to completion.  Meantime
the translation itself of these ‘geographical’ books and passages has been
delivered to Cambridge University Press for expert review.

After lengthy discussions, agreement was reached that Lindsay Holman and Benet
Salway (University College London) should join Richard Talbert to co-edit the
substantially revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History.  It is to be
published by Routledge, with the maps all remade digitally in color, using the
Center’s Map Tiles as base.  Contributors to the original edition are being
invited to review the fresh drafts of their maps; at the same time new
contributors have been recruited, in most instances for plans of cities that
could not be accommodated previously.  So much mapmaking has provided
exceptional opportunities for student assistants to gain training and
experience.  Hania Zanib has specialized in drafting city- and battle-plans with
precision.  Peter Streilein, Tyler Brown and Coleman Cheeley have concentrated
on maps of the Near East, Aegean and Roman Empire. Ross Twele has begun to
compile the gazetteer.

As Richard Talbert’s collection of maps made of Asia Minor (Turkey) during the
late 19th and early 20th centuries continues to expand in size and complexity,
Ross Twele has also worked towards organizing its presentation online.

A supplement negotiated to the partnership agreement made last year with the
Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, Roma Capitale authorized a
three-week initiative in Rome to proceed during September–October.  Within this
period a joint Italian–U.S. team made 3D scans of all 823 incised fragments of
the Great Marble Map (Forma Urbis) to an accuracy of approximately 0.05 mm;
because several of this formidable total were dispersed across Rome, visits to
various museums were required (Museo dell’Ara Pacis, for example).  The number
scanned far exceeded even the most optimistic estimate of what might be achieved
in the limited time available.  Such success was due not least to the efficiency
of the four 3D handheld structured light scanners used – three Creaform Go!SCAN
and one Creaform Spark 3D.  Derek Miller (Center for Digital Scholarship, IUPUI)
brought these scanners and oversaw their operation throughout.  Prof. Elizabeth
Wolfram Thill (Classical Studies, IUPUI) again took a leading role.  She and Dr.
Riccardo Montalbano in Rome (partially funded by the Center) have now begun the
arduous work of organizing the scans for online presentation in a format that
will enable a further agreement with the Sovrintendenza to be reached, one
granting public access to this remarkable material.   In January Prof. Wolfram
Thill outlined the recent progress made by the partnership, as well as future
prospects, at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in
Washington, DC; the stream of questions following her paper attests to the high
level of interest generated.  A potentially rewarding further goal – which in
current conditions must remain on hold – is to scan likewise the neglected mass
of uninscribed fragments; their number has been greatly increased by finds from
recent tunneling for a new metro line in the area where the Map was displayed.

Once again this year it was the Center’s good fortune to have an outstanding
workforce: three graduate students – Gabriel Moss, Ross Twele, Miguel Vargas;
and four undergraduates – Tyler Brown, Coleman Cheeley, Peter Streilein, Hania
Zanib.  All three graduating at the year’s end – former Director Gabriel Moss
(PhD), Tyler Brown and Peter Streilein (both BA) – will be greatly missed.

A further word of sincere appreciation to all, including Director Lindsay
Holman, is called for this year because of the pandemic crisis.  In mid-March,
during the last hour before the sudden closure of Davis library, Lindsay
brilliantly reconfigured the Center’s machines for remote working.  In
consequence, everyone gained, and seized, the welcome opportunity to continue
working and communicating from home – at a somewhat slower pace, to be sure, and
with certain technical limitations, but overall almost as productively as
before.

Lindsay Holman continues as Director, and Richard Talbert (after his retirement
from all other duties) remains in charge as research professor.

 

Lindsay Holman

Richard Talbert



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TABULA IMPERII BYZANTINI UPDATE

June 16, 2020 in E-resource, Interest, Publication

In the TIB series, #13 Bithynien und Hellespont by Klaus Belke was published in
April. Its two substantial volumes are accompanied not only by a map at the
regular scale for the series (1:800,000), but also by several others, including
the Bosporos at 1:100,000. See link here for free online access.

For the latest report about digitizing TIB and progress on extending its
coverage, visit here.



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BOOK OF INTEREST NOW IN PAPERBACK

March 12, 2020 in Publication

This Routledge publication was issued in paperback at the end of February.





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TWO BOOKS: NEW EDITION AND NEW FORMAT

February 13, 2020 in Interest, Publication

A second edition of Graham Shipley’s Pseudo-Skylax is now available in hardback
and paperback from Liverpool University Press.



Richard Talbert’s Roman Portable Sundials is now issued in paperback by Oxford
University Press.





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