E-Learning
At this point you will find a number of links and information that may be helpful in your studies.
Organizational matters of the University of Cologne
The Institute of Archaeology belongs to the Faculty of Philosophy and uses the platforms KLIPS and ILIAS for the organization of teaching.
Cooperating institutions at the University of Cologne
The Archaeological Institute cooperates with different institutions:
- ZaKMiRa - Center for the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean region (only in German)
- Institute for Digital Humanities (former HKI - Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung)
Important non-university institutions
Outside the universities, museums and research institutions work on archaeological issues, such as the RGM and the DAI. Members of the dArV are kept up to date on current vacancies and developments in archaeology.
Online catalogs
Fundamental to successful scientific work is a comprehensive literature search. For this you need access to the catalogs of libraries, which can be searched by keywords, authors, titles and the like.
Below you will find a selection of library catalogs and online available journals:
- KUG - Kölner Universitätsgesamtkatalog
- USB Köln E-Medien - Universtäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln
- bonnus - Suchportal der Universität Bonn
- HBZ - Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (only in German)
- ZDB - Zeitschriftendatenbank
- HEIDI - Katalog für die Bibliotheken der Universität Heidelberg
- ZENON - Literaturrecherche des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
- Dyabola - Literatur-Recherche (only accessible with IP address of the university, only in German)
- Perseus - Digital Library der Tufts Universität
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
- JSTOR - Online Zeitschriften
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
- Academia – Plattform, um eigene akademische Werke zu teilen (Achtung! Nicht peer-reviewed!)
- Researchgate – Alternative Plattform, um eigene akademische Werke zu teilen
Databases
Increasingly, archaeological institutions are making content available online. These databases are suitable for image, inscription and information research:
- Propylaeum - Specialized Information Service Classical Studies
- ARACHNE - Central object database of the German Archaeological Institute
- Classical Art Research Center der Universität Oxford
- prometheus - Image archive
- Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby
- Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg
- EAGLE - Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Reviews
Reviews provide an assessment and overview of the reviewed works and thus allow to refine the literature research. They do not replace the own reading!
- recensio.net - Review platform for European historical scholarship
- sehepunkte - Review Journal for the Historical Sciences, only in German
- BMCR - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Publication guidelines
The publication guidelines of major journals are especially important for proper citation.
Learning Resources
The following are websites that provide introductory knowledge on Classical Archaeology, Roman Provinces Archaeology, and Archaeoinformatics.
- Content and technical notes on student work at the Institute of Archaeology
- Knowledge Entry Classical Archaeology
- Knowledge Entry provincial-roman archaeology
- Knowledge Entry Digital and Computational Archaeology
- Pharos - Online study units of classical archaeology and philology (in German)
- Viamus - Virtual Ancient Museum (in German)
- Khan Academy - Online learning platform
- Coursera - Online learning platform
Bibliography software
In the course of studies and later in scientific work, countless essays, reports and books have to be processed. In order not to lose an overview of what has already been read, but also to organize unedited references, bibliography programs are useful. With these you can link the citations (via which you can clearly find the literature again) with notes, references and tags, so that a database is created, in which you can search for keywords, authors and the like. This facilitates the later retrieval of the information immensely. Two bibliography programs enjoy particular popularity: