UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

[CFLarsen]

Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia

Frustrated with the poor quality of many Web sites dealing with ancient Egypt, a professor at the University of California has decided to create an online encyclopedia devoted to Egyptology.

Willemina Wendrich, a professor of Egyptian archaeology, had watched in dismay as the best resource for her subject, a seven-volume encyclopedia in German, got more and more out of date because of the prohibitive cost of updating it.

Meanwhile, her students at UCLA were doing research for papers on the Internet, and being led astray. "The Web has a lot of wonderful information, and a lot of horrible information," she told Reuters in a telephone interview Thursday.

The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, which will go online in 2008, will be peer-reviewed and will update when there are new discoveries, Wendrich said.

One version, in PDF format, will be available for free to anyone using the Web, while a second version, with a better search function and more graphics, will be available by subscription.

"I'm doing this because I think it's necessary," she said.

Source (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/27/egyptology.online.reut/index.html)

So do I.

Let's keep an eye out for that one.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

So do I.

Let's keep an eye out for that one.

Hopefully they'll include the information about how the aliens helped them build the pyramids.

[LostAngeles]

Look, it's one thing when folks have been hitting me up for UCLA/USC game tickets when I'm not even actually enrolled yet, but this takes the cake Larsen. It just really, really does. You can't just use me like this so you can learn stuff! :p

All kidding aside, this is really, really cool. Anyone told Joshua Korosi yet?

[CFLarsen]

Look, it's one thing when folks have been hitting me up for UCLA/USC game tickets when I'm not even actually enrolled yet, but this takes the cake Larsen. It just really, really does. You can't just use me like this so you can learn stuff! :p

Don't be silly. Of course I can use you for my own benefit.

All kidding aside

Who is kidding? Don't you get a free subscription? :p

[tim]

Thanks Claus. If it happens and you find out, let me know. And I'll let you know. :D

[CFLarsen]

Deal.

[geni]

Sounds interesting but where is the money going to come from.

[LostAngeles]

Sounds interesting but where is the money going to come from.

As an entering UCLA student, I can answer that.

It's coming from me and about 29,999 other students, undergrad and grad. :D

And grants and gifts and other good stuff.

Edit: I make the silly post and then I realize, duh, I know where to find your answer because I am an entering UCLA student and thusly live on the website for the school right now.

...The project's financing is similarly intricate and ambitious. For the past year, UCLA has bankrolled the project's exploratory phase. The award last month of a $325,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will pave the way for the project's first phase.

From there, the project's business model calls for a range of income streams. The editors hope to secure various grants and donations to cover components aimed at non-academic and K‑12 audiences and the Arabic translation of the encyclopedia.
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http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6992