"Arts, Faculty of"@en . "Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Department of"@en . "Other UBC"@en . "DSpace"@en . "Student innovation in the open"@en . "Tweten, Lisa"@en . "2014-11-12T17:28:10Z"@en . "2014-10-28"@en . "Graduate students in the Classics, Near Eastern and Religious Studies Department at the University of British Columbia have begun to digitize the department\u00E2\u0080\u0099s epigraphic squeeze collection. Very briefly, a \u00E2\u0080\u009Csqueeze\u00E2\u0080\u009D is a copy of an inscription made using damp filter paper that is pounded over the inscription, allowed to dry and peeled off; the result is a perfect \u00E2\u0080\u0093 if backwards \u00E2\u0080\u0093 copy of the inscription that allows for future study apart from the physical inscription. Our collection had previously been kept in a locked storage room, accessible to few, unused and unknown to the majority of the department. Malcolm McGregor, once the head of the Classics department at UBC, co-authored the definitive volumes on the Athenian Tribute List based on his epigraphic collection of the stone fragments of said list.\n\nSimilar digitization projects have been undertaken by other institutions; what sets our project apart is the quality of our images. Where other projects use a flatbed scanner, we have partnered with the UBC Library\u00E2\u0080\u0099s Digital Initiatives team to create high-resolution photographs. By using raking light to highlight the raised inscription of the squeeze, we are able to provide an extremely detailed image that allows minute study of letter formation which is a key feature in dating inscriptions, and the text is now easier to read than on the squeeze itself. Moreover, once the squeeze has been digitized, it can be flipped and read from left to right, which means epigraphists no longer have to read ancient Greek backwards. Our aim in digitizing the collection is to revitalize epigraphic study at UBC and allow scholars from around the world access to documents which would otherwise sit unused in storage. Presented at Open Access Week, October 28-29, 2014"@en . "https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/51032?expand=metadata"@en . "From Stone to Screen: Digitizing Epigraphic Squeezes Image courtesy of Digital Initiatives Image courtesy of Digital Initiatives \u00C2\u00A9 Lisa Tweten CNERSCOLLECTIONST.OMEKA.NET \u00E2\u0080\u009CWhat\u00E2\u0080\u0099s a squeeze?\u00E2\u0080\u009D \u00C2\u00A9 Chelsea Gardner *So you end up with something like this which can be quite hard to read. * Especially with letters missing and no idea what the text said originally. Classical Athens Kallistos / Wikimedia Commons / Cc-by-3.0; Porch of MaidensCC BY-SA 2.5 Athenian Tribute Lists \u00E2\u0080\u0093 Lapis Primus \u00C2\u00A9 M. Miles Epigraphic charts \u00E2\u0080\u0093 how they put it all together Image courtesy of Digital Initiatives Digital Initiatives \u00C2\u00A9 Lisa Tweten Image comparison \u00C2\u00A9 Lisa Tweten / Digital Initiatives digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/landingpage/ collection/squeezes eagle-network.eu atticinscriptions.com Twitter:@CNRS_Squeezes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fromstonetoscreen Wordpress: fromstonetoscreen.wordpress.com Omeka: cnerscollections.omeka.net Acknowledgements: CNERS Department faculty: Dr. Gwynaeth McIntyre Dr. Siobh\u00C3\u00A1n McElduff Dr. Nigel Kennell Dr. Kevin Fisher Dr. Lisa Cooper Dr. Hector Williams Dr. Philip Harding Student Volunteers: Chelsea Gardner (PhD Classics: Archaeology) Lisa Tweten (MA ACRE) Maude C\u00C3\u00B4t\u00C3\u00A9-Landry (PhD Classics: History) Kat Solberg (MA CNAR) Heather Odell (MA CLAS) Haley Bertram (MA CNAR) Natalie MacDougall (MA CLAS) Kevin Lee (MA CNAR) Brian Burnstein (MA ACRE) Emma Hilliard (MA CLAS) Ryan Johnson (PhD Classics: History) Matt Boland (Undergraduate) Mark Penney (Alumnus) Richard Cameron (Undergraduate) David Assaf (MA CLAR) Andrei Mihailiuk (MA CLAR) Patricia Taylor (MA CLAR) From Stone to Screen is funded by the Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies Department, and by TLEF\u00E2\u0080\u0099s Flexible Learning Initiative. "@en . "Presentation"@en . "British Columbia"@en . "10.14288/1.0075855"@en . "eng"@en . "Unreviewed"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada"@en . "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/"@en . "Graduate"@en . "University of British Columbia. CNRS"@en . "Open Access Week"@en . "From stone to screen : digitizing epigraphic squeezes"@en . "Text"@en . "http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51032"@en .