Egyptological needs you!
There are all sorts of opportunities for anyone who would like to volunteer to help out with Egyptological. We are committed to making Egyptological a community, and the more people who contribute the better it will be.
Our most pressing requirement is for other general editors, who will form an editorial committee and will contribute to the assessment and processing of all Journal and Magazine articles. You will need to be familiar with Egyptology and have had prior experience as a general editor on a journal or magazine. When we have sufficient editors experienced in our processes we will be interested in nominating section editors to take responsibility for each of the main areas of the publication.
We are also looking for copy-checking assistants who will help us to check all material prior to its publication on the site. This will involve checking spelling and grammar and picking up on typographical errors. At the present we are most interested in welcoming people with prior copy-checking or similar experience (for example secretarial), but further along the line we will be very happy to take on those wishing to learn new skills.
We would be interested in hearing from you if you speak another language fluently and would be interested in volunteering as a translator. We would very much like to accept articles in languages other than English but we would also want to publish them in English so we are looking for volunteers who could help us to offer this facility by translating articles into English for us.
Another way in which volunteers could assist is in helping to act as moderators, reviewing the content on a number of areas of the site. The role here would be to ensure that all content published on the site is both relevant and appropriate. We would particularly welcome an album editor to help manage the Album and an events editor to help manage the Events and Courses Calendars.
If you think you could contribute in a way that we haven’t thought of, please let us know. All ideas are welcome.
Get in touch if you are interested in helping out .
By Kate Phizackerley
Dear Andie/ Kate
I will be graduating my MPhil Ancient Cultures degree in March and am fluent in both English and German and can competently translate out of German, as well as proofread. I could also contribute articles, as I have been accepted to commence my Masters’ in Egyptology in the Fall (working towards a PhD), and would like to “keep my head in the game”.
Kind Regards,
Danielle
I am a retired ESL teacher with a linguistics degree who would be delighted to help. Proof-reading is my first thought (it seems needed). I can also translate French and Spanish into English. German is not quite as facile, but still possible, as is Italian. Anything else I might do for you?
Thanks Diana, Andie will be in touch with you by email.
Diana, I tried to contact you by email a couple of weeks ago but have received no reply. I would very much like to take up your offer of help, so please could you email me if you are still interested? andrea {at} egyptologicalonline.net. Thanks. Andrea.
Hi
congratulations for this new project. If you need help translating to or from Spanish, or proof reading, or an article on some specific subject let me know. I studied history & archaeology and I have a Master’s degree in Egyptology. I’ve studied with well known Egyptologists as Pascal Vernus and Antonio Loprieno.
Yours
Martí
Thank you Martí, it is great to know that you are there if needed. I have added you to the volunteer list. If you would like to write an article we would love to hear from you. What was your MA topic? Perhaps that would be a good subject? You can email me directly at andrea {at} egyptologicalonline.net if you want to discuss it.
Best
Andrea
I would like to help out proof reading. I previously authored technical manuals, have worked on websites and currently do administrative work.
I’ve been an “armchair egyptologist/archeologist” for many years and have followed both of your blogs.
Joyce Scribner
Hello Joyce. Thank you very much for your offer of help, which is most welcome. We are just finalizing the submissions for the first issue of the Journal section, and will be asking for proof-readers to check them over before publication, so your timing is excellent. We will be in touch soon. Andie
Hello,
I’d be happy to help you as I could.
I’m a student in fourth and final year of DUESE (university diploma specialized in egyptology), at Université Lumière Lyon 2. Durgin this cursus, I learned Egypt’s history, archaeology and history of art, and hieroglyphs. I know the basics of Manuel de Codage, using JSesh (which I translated the documentation in French, my native language).
I currently am the administrator of a website, separated into two sites: Hierogeek, dedicated to relations between egyptology and computer, and Archaeologeek, dedicated to archaeomatics. While this latter is in French only, Hierogeek is bilingual English-French.
I think I may participate to Egyptological by translating articles in French, every time I will be able to spare time. And maybe by submitting articles, if they match the requirements for being published.
Regards.
Bertrand Gajeot
I love Hierogeek.
As soon as I get time I want to add a Resources -> Links page to Hieropaedia and I will definitely by adding Hierogeek!
I hope to release the Hieroglyphs plugin within a couple of months. I suspect it should port to Drupal reasonably easily since it is PHP based. I am also considering a mixed JQuery / PHP version which would have performance advantages and be more portable. I love your Before / After work too. That’s seriously impressive.
I have been surprised how much interest we have had from people willing to translate from French, or offering to write in French.
Thanks for your offers of help. Your interests and mine clearly overlap and I am sure we will end up working together on things over the coming months!
Kate
Garry and Wael, thanks very much for your very welcome offers of help. I have replied to you both individually by email. Best, Andie Byrnes.
Hello,
I’m Geologist from Egypt have Master degree in geology and I’m very interesting in Egyptology, I work in the field of link between geology and Egyptology which we name it GEOARCHAEOLOGIC. So, I can help in any thing or review any articles related to the subject of geology, such as any thing related to the rocks, soil, restoration materials and so on….
If you want any help it pleases me
Regards
Wael
I would be happy to help in any way possible. I work in Management and proof read reviews and related material prior to Human Resource approval. I have studied the history of Egypt, with an emphasis on the early explorers. If you feel my services could be of use please advise.
Thank You,
Garry Beuk
Hi Andie/Kate, I’ve just found this site via your portal (via a news feed on my RSS reader!) and would be very interested in getting involved. To give you a brief bit of background, I have a degree and postgraduate diploma (I was unable to complete my MA dissertation due to health problems I had at the time) in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool, and am now looking to get back into the Egyptology ‘scene’ after a couple of years out. A few more of my assets include many years experience working in admin jobs, I’m fairly dapper on the computers (except, unfortunately, for website design, though I’m a fast learner!), some proofreading skills, and I’ve just started to train to become an indexer (although I’m right at the beginning of the course at the moment). I’ve also volunteered to help out with the new EES North events, particularly the ones in Liverpool.
I would like to help out if I can, whether it be administratively, helping to proofread articles, or I might even be pursuaded to submit the odd article here or there as we have the EES North events coming up later this year as well as the rather lovely Egyptology section in the Liverpool World Museum.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Julia Thorne