An Open Context for "Near Eastern Archaeology"

The Biblical Creation in its Ancient Near Eastern Context

A Manifesto for an Introspective Digital Archaeology

This paper presents a grand challenge for Digital Archaeology of a different kind: it is not technical in and of itself, it does not seek out technological solutions for archaeological problems, it does not propose new digital tools or digital methodologies as such. Instead, it proposes a broader challenge, one which addresses the very stuff of archaeology: an understanding of how digital techn...

Metadata Integration for an Archaeology Collection Architecture

During the lifecycle of a research project, from the collection of raw data through study to publication, researchers remain active curators and decide how to present their data for future access and reuse. Thus, current trends in data collections are moving toward infrastructure services that are centralized, flexible, and involve diverse technologies across which multiple researchers work sim...

Experimental Archaeology: Wise Jar - An Ancient Iranian Invention for Liquid Separation From 5thCentury A.H.(9th A.D.)

After advent of Islam especially through and after the reign of Abbasid caliphs; interest of scientists and engineers wasdrawn towards the” mechanical or ingenious devices”. The wise jar was originally designed by Ahmad ibnMüsä, thefamous Iranian scientist who lived in the 5th century A.H.(9th A.D). It consists of a jar with a mechanically intelligentmechanism inside, which is capable of separa...

An Open Agent Environment for Context-Aware mCommerce

In this paper, we introduce MyCampus, an agent-based environment for contextaware mobile services, which we are in the process of developing and validating on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus. The environment revolves around a growing collection of customizable agents capable of (semi-) automatically discovering and accessing Intranet and Internet services as they assist their users in carry...