International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)

Using Linked Open Data (LOD) to digitally reassemble and recontextualize archaeological data from the important cultural heritage site of Dura-Europos (Syria).

[NEH Pres Access @NEH_PresAccess]

We're proud to share that @DigitalDura used a $350,000 NEH Humanities Collections & Reference Resources grant to 1) create a digital archive & 2) develop a web application for multilinguistic access to Dura Europos (Syrian) archival resources! Grant info: https://t.co/mjZchsWfZz

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

💫 Our team is pleased to announce that IDEA has received the 2025 Award for Outstanding Work In Digital Archaeology, presented by the Archaeological Institute of America !

Thank you to @archaeology_aia for recognizing our work ✨

Read more here: https://t.co/6zbot2xVgd

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

We are pleased to share the special issue of Pasts Imperfect, about new developments and research focused on Dura-Europos
featuring IDEA’s team and advisors ⁦@JA_Baird⁩ ⁦@ahcnyc84⁩ @Adnan77227624 ⁦@LR_Brody⁩ ✨ https://t.co/QYIp7UKVcW

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

Congratulations to IDEA member Jasmine Sahu-Hough @lanajaz on her Best Paper Award at IEEE CiSt’23 in Morocco last month! Sahu-Hough participated in the conference on Digital Preservation and Processing Technology of Written Heritage with a paper on Wikidata for Papyrologists.

[ISOC LIVE @ISOC_Live]

LIVE - Wikipedia Day NYC 2023 #Wikipedia22 #wikipedia #wikipediaday #wikidata @WikimediaNYC Jason Scott @textfiles @internetarchive Anne Hunnell Chen @DigitalDura https://t.co/6b8ebUWwDA

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

Today, IDEA’s founder Anne Chen is giving a talk for #WikipediaDay 2023 in NYC about Leveraging #WikiData for ethical digital reassembly of cultural heritage!
📍Check it out here: https://t.co/04HgTlBssV

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

For @wikidata's 10th Birthday, our project founder and co-director Anne Hunnell Chen will speak tomorrow at 8am PDT, on Scaling & Sustaining a WikiData initiative!
Register here & learn about how WikiData helps IDEA and how IDEA works to enrich WikiData: https://t.co/jswiaAXICm

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

Need more Zoom in your life and want to learn about IDEA? Join us today at the #LD42022 conference at 1pm EDT for "Leveraging Wikidata for Ethical Virtual Re-Assembly and Re-Contextualization of Cultural Heritage". Registration is free! https://t.co/6QEaeNVSP6

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

Friends of YDEA: our project has grown beyond our initial scope, so we’re changing our name to reflect it. We’re now the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA). Tweet us @DigitalDura. Stay tuned for the launch of our new website!

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

YDEA is included in the @hyperallergic write up celebrating the NEH's new grants! https://t.co/1oN048RySd
#archives #Archaeology #CulturalHeritage #DuraEuropos @NEHgov @NEH_PresAccess

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

YDEA is humbled to announce our #NEHgrant from @NEH_PresAccess! Congratulations to @ahcnyc84, Holly Rushmeier, and all their collaborators! See the official announcement: https://t.co/Uo6EFOsBjX

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

NEH announces $33.17 million in new #NEHgrant awards to 245 #humanities projects.

Awards will support historic collections, exhibitions, films, infrastructure, interdisciplinary curricula, scholarly research, and more: https://t.co/8okmavaNMQ

[Eleanor Martin @EleanorMartin]

Had the best time helping out at the #DuraEuropos2022 conference this week! Hats off to Anne Chen and @LR_Brody for their organizational prowess, my fellow grad assistants (pictured here), and the speakers for their excellent and thought-provoking papers. This was such a joy!

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

And that’s a wrap! Many thanks to everyone who attended and participated in the conference, and especially to our wonderful speakers. It was such a pleasure to hear their thoughts in commemoration and celebration of the centennial of excavations at Dura-Europos. #DuraEuropos2022

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

Day 3 in review: another seven excellent papers, including these two by Profs. Karen Stern and Jen Baird—as you can see, our speakers today approached Dura from a variety of angles, all equally thought-provoking. What a way to round off the conference! #DuraEuropos2022

[Jasmine Sahu-Hough (she/her) @lanajaz]

Blown away by day 2 of #DuraEuropos2022 conference! From myth busting 'semitic culture' to raking Rostovzeff over the coals. Then a @BeineckeLibrary visit and the ISM exhibit of Dura photos. Here's the Grad team at the exhibition, thoroughly enjoying ourselves:

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

The exhibition, which will run until June 1st, can be viewed in-person in Miller Hall (home of the @yaleism), and it is available online for all. Visit the exhibition virtually here: https://t.co/aif8Gs2T07

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

Looking back on day 2 of the #DuraEuropos2022 conference at Yale: two sessions featuring 6 papers, including this one on Rostovtzeff’s Dura by Prof. Jaś Elsner.

[International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA) @DigitalDura]

We rounded off the day’s events with a reception at the @yaleism, where Blair Fowlkes Childs (ISM fellow, 2019-2020) has curated an exhibition of photographs of Dura Europos from the past century, including many from the Yale-French excavations in the 1920s. #DuraEuropos2022