VR Award winner Aspa Efstathiou (left) and Pia Kvarnström, consult aerial photographs of Athens from the Homer A. Thompson collection (photo by Kirstin Ohrt)
2024 VR Award Winner Visits
Visual Resources was pleased to welcome Aspa Efstathiou, the inaugural VR research award winner, to Princeton for the first week of September. Aspa is the Associate Registrar of the Agora Excavations at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and she was joined by her colleague, Pia Kvarnström, who is the Database Administrator for the same excavation. Together they worked all week reviewing and inventorying the Homer A. Thompson collection here in the department, in order to ascertain how many documents are duplicates of those in Athens and how many are original and should therefore be digitized and shared. Their knowledge of the Agora excavation has been essential in this process, and will contribute greatly to the cataloging and description of the A&A collection that will now have a home online. Please note that we are currently accepting applications for 2025, and we encourage all interested to apply.
Monday, September 23, 12pm-1pm: Visual Resources Lunch and Orientation
We recognize that new members of the department community may not know what we can do for them so on Monday September 23rd at 12pm/noon in the second floor lounge we are offering an informal overview of what Visual Resources does, while also providing lunch! This is open to all students as well as faculty and staff.
New Digital Collection Management System
Screenshot of our new collection management system.
On the digital side, we have migrated our website from Wordpress to the more institutionally supported Drupal system, which has allowed us to learn what this platform can offer for web projects, and which can be styled closer to the look of the department website and our new collection management system, which is now live! This comprehensive digital collection management system will be populated with our archaeological and archival collections as we finalize them for publication. Some of the material in it is still being edited (Antioch in particular). If you have any collections you would like to be made a priority, or that you would like to use with a class, please let us know so we can bump those higher on our list. This platform is still actively being developed and expanded, so please reach out to us if you have any questions. Our monthly updates will provide information on newly added collections and enhancements.
Boston Exhibition of 'Mount Athos and Meteora, 1929: Princeton's Hidden Treasure'
Mount Athos and Meteora, 1929: Princeton’s Hidden Treasure, the photography exhibition that has been well received in Thessaloniki, Greece, will open on September 27, 2024 at the Maliotis Cultural Center at 50 Goddard Avenue in Brookine, MA and will run through the end of January 2025. This exhibition is a collaboration between A&A, the Mount Athos Foundation of America, the Mount Athos Center (in Thessaloniki) and the Maliotis Cultural Center. VR director Julia Gearhart will speak at the opening on September 27.