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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 51, December 20, 2015, Article 4

ANS PARTICIPATES IN HUMANITIES OPEN BOOK PROJECT

Another digital initiative by the American Numismatic Society was announced this week - working with the Humanities Open Book project, the ANS will make nearly 100 rare out-of-print numismatic books available in free digital editions. Here's an article from the ANS' Pocket Change blog. -Editor

ANS logo The American Numismatic Society has been chosen as one of ten publishers to participate in the Humanities Open Book project, a joint NEH-Mellon Foundation grant program to convert out-of-print books of enduring scholarship into EPUB e-books, which will be licensed so as to allow readers to search and download these books freely, and to read them on any type of e-reader.

ANS publications date back to 1866 and include over 500 volumes of numismatic scholarship. Thanks to the funding received from the Mellon Foundation, nearly 100 of its rarest out-of-print books will be converted into free EPUB digital editions. The ANS will go one step further by TEI-encoding these editions for online viewing, searching, and linking. Following best-practices of Linked Open Data (LOD), these XML files will link to (and will be able to be linked from) other Open Access (OA) resources like the Virtual International Authority File, the Pleiades Gazetteer of Ancient Places, and ANS digital projects like OCRE and PELLA.

ANS books for Humanities Open Book project

Pictured above are just a few of the some one hundred works that will be processed. The assorted works digitized through this generous Humanities Open Book grant will be available via the ANS Digital Library by the end of 2016.

To read the complete article, see:
NEH-MELLON FOUNDATION HUMANITIES OPEN BOOK PROJECT (www.anspocketchange.org/neh-mellon-foundation-humanities-open-book-project/)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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