Two Jazkarta Projects Competing for Digital Humanities Award

The annual Digital Humanities Awards allow the public to recognize outstanding digital humanities resources on the web. This year not one but two Jazkarta projects are nominated in the “Best Use of Digital Humanities for Public Engagement” category!

• Pleiades, a gazetteer of ancient places that recently won the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2017 Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology. It lets enthusiasts use, create, and share geographic information about the ancient world – associating locations with ancient places, names and scholarly references.
• Dumbarton Oaks’ Online Catalog of Byzantine Seals, which allows users to browse photographs and detailed information about the 17,000+ seals in the collection. Tools include a faceted search, bibliography, and “save my favorites” feature, as well as two informative online exhibitions.

Jazkarta helped develop the software that powers these sites – in both cases, custom add-ons for the Plone open source content management system. But the real work was done by the Pleiades and Byzantine Seals teams who conceived and designed these projects and did the heavy lifting of data entry and curation.

You can cast your vote for either of these projects – or for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities – by visiting dhawards.org/dhawards2016/voting/ and completing the voting form linked at the bottom before midnight this Saturday, 25 February.