Research Databases & Digital Collections

DRAM is a scholarly resource of recordings, including CD-quality audio, liner notes, and essays from New World, Composers Recordings (formerly Composers Recordings Inc./CRI), and other important labels. The touchstone of the DRAM collection is the diverse catalogue of American music represented by the New World records and CRI labels, merged in 2007. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, nineteenth-century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic, and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students, and the general public since 1975. DRAM also includes music from a growing number of recoding labels and archives. More than four thousand albums’ worth of recordings from a distinctive set of forty-two independent labels and archives are available; new contents is continuously added.

The Last Statues of Antiquity project (University of Oxford, R.R.R. Smith and Bryan Ward-Perkins) investigates all evidence for new statuary of the period circa 280–650 AD, as well as the slow decline (and eventual death) of the ancient statue-habit. The searchable database of the published evidence for statuary and inscribed statue bases set up after AD 284, that were new, newly dedicated, or newly re-worked, was completed and made public in May 2012 (with only some minor revisions thereafter). The book Last Statues of Antiquity has been published, too (available in the AAR Library).

The Cult of Saints is a major five-year project, based at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and directed by Bryan Ward-Perkins. It will investigate the origins and development of the cult of Christian saints. Central to the project is a searchable database, on which all the evidence for the cult of saints will be collected, presented (in its original languages and English translation), and succinctly discussed, whether in Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Greek, Latin, or Syriac. Toward the end of the project, this database will be made freely available online. As to date, the site contains useful information and links in this research field.

This is the online version of the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database, originally released in 1998 as a set of floppy disks. The database has two sections: the introduction (containing general information about the project, and bio-bibliographical introductions to each of the saints of the eighth to tenth centuries); and the database itself which in turn is divided into three sections (Saints’ list; Authors’ list; search citations). The Greek texts may be accessed through the Saints' list (entire texts) or search citations (partial texts). Please note that the interface for this database is under development.

The CMG, run by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, features an extensive collection of films and photocopies of ancient medical manuscripts in Greek, Latin and Arabic; these materials have been made accessible to foreign project collaborators for use in preparing their editions. Many of the editions are accessible online; furthermore, there are concordances (to Kühn or Littré), the Diels Manuscript Catalog and up-to-date bibliographies. Additionally, the CMG site offers research tools and news in the field of ancient medicine.

The Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi was determined for collection and publication of sarcophagi of the Roman Empire by the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) in 1870. In cooperation with the DAI, the CoDArchLab (Arachne) takes part in the reconception of the Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi.

Ostia Forum Project is the website of the ongoing excavations and surveys at Ostia carried out by a team of archaeologists and scientists at the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin) and the continuation of the joint blog of the Kent-Berlin-Ostia excavations since 2008, in cooperation with the Superintendency of Rome. Contains many and up-to-date information and data regarding Ostia.

The site produces original content pieces, reviews books, interviews scholars of note on past and future projects, discusses contemporary issues, and creates a community of engaged readers with digital and in person discussion and book groups.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München. Over five thousand digitized twentieth-century monographs in humanities and social sciences.

The Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s central research library, has over nine hundred thousand volumes. The Watson Library Digitization Initiative provides wider access to the library’s rare and unique materials.