An inter-institutional project of the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and Brown University Library with Stanford University, The National Institute for the History of Art in Paris and Université de Paris I ad Durham University.
Our Abstract
Working as part of an international team of scholars, we will pursue an interactive, multidisciplinary approach to key components of early scientific practice (fieldwork, collection and sampling, documentation, and archiving), employing and developing a web-based collaborative framework of commentary and critique connected with high resolution scanned sources comprised of approximately 2000 relevant key works in the antiquarian tradition from Great Britain and the United States. This project aims to investigate the proposition that what is often called the antiquarian tradition in early modern Europe (roughly 1500-1820) was not an intellectual backwater to the mainstream development of experimental science. We will explore the antiquarian tradition in its local and historical context, with a special emphasis on its relationship to the discipline of archaeology.
We envisage three principal benefits to Brown’s internationalization efforts. First, the project will bring Brown faculty and students into contact with scholars and resources from Great Britain and France. Second, it will showcase, and make globally available, valuable items in Brown’s rich library collections and create valuable scholarly links between Brown’s collections and those of Stanford University Library, Bishops Library of Durham, UK and the Bibliotheque nationale de France. And third, it will provide an innovative and extensible model for a type of digital collaboration (collaboration in analysis, in commentary and in publication) that both facilitates and fosters international contact and scholarly exchange.
For more visit the Brown Project site and also the Stanford project site
