The website https://ancientarabia.huma-num.fr is an output of the research project Maparabia, supported by the French National Research Agency (Project ANR-18-CE27-0015, PI: J. Schiettecatte). Its exclusive scope is to provide instruments for scholarly research: a digital atlas, a gazetteer and a dictionary of ancient Arabia.
Materials on this website, unless otherwise stated, are protected by laws of copyright and intellectual property. Some of these contents are intellectual property of the CNRS (France) and the CNR (Italy). Other are property of third parties that have authorized their publication. This is particularly the case for dictionary entries.
Yet, the research instruments available on this site have been developed with the concern to be as open as possible. They have been developed using free software and making use of open-source technologies.
Atlas of Ancient Arabia
- Geoserver: GeoServer 2.16.2
- Map Library: OpenLayers 5.3
- Database: PostgreSQL 11, PostGIS, normalized according to the OGC standards for WMS/WFS
- Webmapping technologies: html, css, Javascript
- GIS management: QGIS 3.22 Bialowieza
Data are freely accessible and available for consultation on the website https://ancientarabia.huma-num.fr/atlas/
The webmapping platform offers only partial access to all the data entered in the database. The data is released under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Full access to the database can be granted on request to scholars who have demonstrated a need for it in their research. Please contact us with a cover letter explaining your project, academic background and the use you would make of our data. Consultation and reuse of the data is only possible via the free GIS software QGIS, by accessing the remote server via the WFS protocol, no export will be made on request. Access to the data is possible in read-only mode, more rarely in read-and-write mode.
Gazetteer of Ancient Arabia
- Relational database: MySQL
- Data exposition: API-REST in JSON-LD format
The Gazetteer of Ancient Arabia is openly accessible for consultation at https://ancientarabia.huma-num.fr/gazetteer/. The content of the Gazetteer is released in linked data format (http://ancientarabia.cnr.it/gazetteer/api) in order to enhance interoperability with other repositories, thus making it possible to link its content to archaeological, textual, and geographic data, also pertaining to different spatial and chronological contexts. The data is released under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Thematic Dictionary of Ancient Arabia (ISSN 3036-3527)
All of the TDAA's content (texts, media) is archived in Nakala, a Huma-Num service. Nakala ensures both the accessibility of data and metadata and their ‘quotability’ over time using stable identifiers provided by Huma-Num and based on Handle and/or DOI. Data are exposed on the website https://ancientarabia.huma-num.fr through the Nakala API-REST.
The content is released under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, and protected by French and international law on copyright and intellectual property. The editors have obtained the rights to use images and other media displayed in the TDAA for the sole purpose of visualisation on the TDAA site, but copyright has not been transferred to the project and remains with their original authors/editors. The content is printable and it may be freely used by any academic/reader and reused in accordance with the restrictions imposed by copyright law (partial reproduction only), and provided that it is properly cited (author, date, title of the entry, title of the TDAA, date of consultation, stable URL).
Even though every reasonable effort has been made to identify copyright holders and seek permission, if you recognize materials for which the authorization has not been granted, please contact us.