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    <title>Digital Classicist seminars</title>
    <description>We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the
      application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce
      their work. The focus of this seminar series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work
      that results at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer Science.</description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Discussion on Jenny Strauss Clay seminar</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/12/11/StraussClay-Jasnow-Evans</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Catalogue of Ships that follows this invocation can be mapped as an itinerary, or more precisely, three itineraries that traverse most of Greece. By creating a mental journey that used the mnemonic techniques involving loci or places, well known from ancient rhetorical writers, Homer could mentally walk – or sail – through Greece and produce a detailed catalogue. In cooperation with the Scholars Lab of the University of Virginia, and using their “Neatline” program, “Least-cost path” GIS analysis, and links with the Pleiades Project, we will explore that itinerary. Our presentation will be work in progress and present some early findings concerning the organization of space in the Catalogue.]]></description>
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      <title>Mapping the Catalogue of Ships (Jenny Strauss Clay)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/12/11/StraussClay-Jasnow-Evans</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Catalogue of Ships that follows this invocation can be mapped as an itinerary, or more precisely, three itineraries that traverse most of Greece. By creating a mental journey that used the mnemonic techniques involving loci or places, well known from ancient rhetorical writers, Homer could mentally walk – or sail – through Greece and produce a detailed catalogue. In cooperation with the Scholars Lab of the University of Virginia, and using their “Neatline” program, “Least-cost path” GIS analysis, and links with the Pleiades Project, we will explore that itinerary. Our presentation will be work in progress and present some early findings concerning the organization of space in the Catalogue.]]></description>
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      <title>Discussion on Christian Berndt seminar</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/11/30/Berndt</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Although it is obvious that digital research methods have broadened our options for observing and understanding historical objects and processes, there is still few discussion on how to prepare, publish, and communicate scientific results based on digital tools and data. In my contribution I'm going to argue that the adoption of digital research methods has far reaching consequences for the justification of scientific claims. As an example, I will present the findings of the Digital Pantheon Project concerning the design and construction of the Pantheon's portico columns and will discuss how the project attempts to justify its findings. The experiences made with the Pantheon Project can be summarized in a requirements catalogue for digital investigation methods, which also might be relevant for other research projects.]]></description>
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      <title>The Design of the Pantheon’s Portico Columns and the Justification of Research Results based on Digital Tools and Methods (Christian Berndt)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/11/30/Berndt</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Although it is obvious that digital research methods have broadened our options for observing and understanding historical objects and processes, there is still few discussion on how to prepare, publish, and communicate scientific results based on digital tools and data. In my contribution I'm going to argue that the adoption of digital research methods has far reaching consequences for the justification of scientific claims. As an example, I will present the findings of the Digital Pantheon Project concerning the design and construction of the Pantheon's portico columns and will discuss how the project attempts to justify its findings. The experiences made with the Pantheon Project can be summarized in a requirements catalogue for digital investigation methods, which also might be relevant for other research projects.]]></description>
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      <title>Discussion on Francesco Mambrini seminar</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/11/12/Mambrini</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What contribution can digital collections give to research in Ancient History? In order to answer this question, digital historians have rightly concentrated on the problem of how to structure the different documents (such as texts, surviving artifacts, geographical locations and related published works), so that the relevant materials can be retrieved with meaningful content-oriented queries. Among the projects that are pursuing this goal, the Hellespont Project (DAI, Perseus Project) focuses on the history of Athens in the years 479-431 BCE, as narrated in the text of Thucydides' Histories (I, 89-118). Yet, written sources for Ancient History (such as the works of Ancient historians) are especially complex. In order to get access to their content, they need structuring at a far more advanced level than current digital editions can provide. We propose to use the methods of current computational linguistics to address this issue. In particular we will explore how, in the Hellespont Project, we are taking advantage of the available annotated syntactic corpora and upgrading their model with supplementary annotation. Our goal is to enrich the text of Thucydides with with word-by-word linguistic annotation on morphology, syntax, valency frame and other discursive features such as semantic roles, verbal aspect, anaphora resolution and topic-focus articulation.]]></description>
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      <title>Treebanking in the World of Thucydides. Linguistic annotation for the Hellespont Project (Francesco Mambrini)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/11/12/Mambrini</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What contribution can digital collections give to research in Ancient History? In order to answer this question, digital historians have rightly concentrated on the problem of how to structure the different documents (such as texts, surviving artifacts, geographical locations and related published works), so that the relevant materials can be retrieved with meaningful content-oriented queries. Among the projects that are pursuing this goal, the Hellespont Project (DAI, Perseus Project) focuses on the history of Athens in the years 479-431 BCE, as narrated in the text of Thucydides' Histories (I, 89-118). Yet, written sources for Ancient History (such as the works of Ancient historians) are especially complex. In order to get access to their content, they need structuring at a far more advanced level than current digital editions can provide. We propose to use the methods of current computational linguistics to address this issue. In particular we will explore how, in the Hellespont Project, we are taking advantage of the available annotated syntactic corpora and upgrading their model with supplementary annotation. Our goal is to enrich the text of Thucydides with with word-by-word linguistic annotation on morphology, syntax, valency frame and other discursive features such as semantic roles, verbal aspect, anaphora resolution and topic-focus articulation.]]></description>
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      <title>Discussion on Diego Jiménez-Badillo seminar</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/10/30/Jimenez-Badillo</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper applies a state of the art quantitative method called Spectral Clustering in order to classify formal features of 162 archaeological stone masks. The algorithm was developed a decade ago by mathematicians working in the field of pattern recognition and has proven to be more effective than techniques such as component-linkage and k-means. We introduce it here to the Digital Classicist community, adapting the original method to fulfill the specific requirements of archaeological analysis. We also present a software package that implements the method. Our application of Spectral Clustering is only the first step in a more ambitious project focused on the automatic recognition and classification of shapes in two and three dimensions.]]></description>
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      <title>Classifying Formal Features of Archaeological Artefacts through the Application of Spectral Clustering (Diego Jiménez-Badillo)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/10/30/Jimenez-Badillo</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper applies a state of the art quantitative method called Spectral Clustering in order to classify formal features of 162 archaeological stone masks. The algorithm was developed a decade ago by mathematicians working in the field of pattern recognition and has proven to be more effective than techniques such as component-linkage and k-means. We introduce it here to the Digital Classicist community, adapting the original method to fulfill the specific requirements of archaeological analysis. We also present a software package that implements the method. Our application of Spectral Clustering is only the first step in a more ambitious project focused on the automatic recognition and classification of shapes in two and three dimensions.]]></description>
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      <title>A View on Digital Classics Collaboration: from a cacophony of epigraphic databases to a citizens’ web of inscriptions (Gabriel Bodard)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/10/19/Bodard_keynote</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper will discuss the history of public epigraphic databases, including the Packard Greek Inscriptions database, the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg and Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches to online collections, especially with reference to scale, usability, technical standards, openness and transparency, collaboration and discoverability through metadata. Some consideration of user reactions to these databases will lead to the conclusion that the Digital Humanities perspectives discussed above do not reflect well the desires and apparent needs of normal epigraphic scholars. Does this disjunction of priorities suggest that we should reconsider the aims of electronic publication, or attempt to educate academics as to the importance of standards and metadata? The paper will close with a suggestion for an approach drawing from the papyrological community that might combine these two facets, building scale without sacrificing quality, and harnessing the epigraphic scholarly community to build a more powerful and interoperable epigraphic corpus.]]></description>
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      <title>In the Tower of Babel: modelling primary sources of multi-testimonial textual transmissions (Paolo Monella)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-08pm.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:12:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This talk aims at discussing a model for digital scholarly editions of texts with a multi-testimonial textual tradition where, for each witness, two layers of digital representation are formally and explicitly distinct, though interrelated: A. The graphical representation of the text of that witness, mirroring its specific encoding system (alphabet, capitalisation, punctuation, word boundaries, scribal abbreviations, page space arrangement etc.); B. The text of that witness in an 'uniform' digital encoding, necessary to make the representations of the text of different witnesses digitally comparable. The talk will also explore how TEI P5 can address the theoretical modelling issues involved.]]></description>
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      <title>Digitising the Prosopography of the Roman Republic (Maggie Robb)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-07mr.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:10:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The history of the Roman republic is the history of a highly competitive aristocratic elite, which oversaw Rome's remarkable transformation from middling Italian city-state to ruler of a world empire. A great deal of the basic information about the prosopography of the Roman elite has already been collated but the sheer scale and complexity of the material has made complex analysis impracticable. By creating a searchable digital database comprising all known members of the republican elite, the project will open up radically new opportunities for revisiting old questions as well as asking entirely new ones.]]></description>
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      <title>Digital epigraphy beyond the Classical: creating (inter?)national standards for recording modern and early modern gravestones (Charlotte Tupman)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-06ct.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2012 18:38:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Early modern and modern gravestones are a vast but rapidly decaying historical resource. Weathering, damage, and re-use have all affected the size and scholarly value of this material. There are no agreed standards for recording and publishing gravestones, and recording is fragmentary and inconsistent. However, many of the standards used in the digital publication of Classical and Medieval inscriptions are applicable to modern gravestones: this paper investigates whether they provide a viable method of recording such a large body of data, where the researchers are often not experts in epigraphy, and solutions are suggested for designing a pilot project.]]></description>
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      <title>Historical Text Re-use Detection on Perseus Digital Library (Marco Buechler and Gregory Crane)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-05mb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012 17:50:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Text re-use detection is about uncovering quotations, paraphrases, allusions, or even analogies and translations. Since quoting never happens by chance but by a positive (agree with an earlier author’s text) or negative (disagree) purpose, we propose to use text re-use techniques for quantitative generation of text re-use graphs and identifying from them hotly quoted passages of a work that are used for scoring it by a "Cultural Heritage GooglePage" technique.]]></description>
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      <title>Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging (Alejandro Giacometti and Alberto Campagnolo)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-04ag.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2012 18:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this seminar we describe the methodology and present preliminary results of a project using multispectral imaging to document the deterioration of parchment. A series of treatments has been applied to degrade samples from a deaccessioned manuscript using both physical and chemical agents. Each sample has been photographed before and after the treatment by a multispectral imaging system to record the effect of the treatments on both the writing and the parchment. We present the initial imaging of the samples, details on their treatment agents and how they affect the writing and parchment, the final imaging, and some image processing analysis.]]></description>
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      <title>A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites (Angeliki Chrysanthi)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-03ac.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Jul 2012 14:34:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper investigates movement and behaviour patterns of visitors to archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing data on movement around sites. I will demonstrate the methodology developed at the archaeological site of Gournia in Greece. Recognised forms of observation and the collection of qualitative data, and technologies such as GPS body tracking, geo-tagging and GIS applications were employed. The interpretation of the processed data provided better insight and an overview of the site’s affordances for movement and revealed the site's 'hot spots' according to visitors’ assessment.]]></description>
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      <title>Pattern detection in archaeological data: quantum modelling, Bronze Age Aegean lead weights and Greek Classical Doric architecture (Jari Pakkanen)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-02jp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:25:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Can statistically significant patterns be detected in Late Bronze Age Aegean balance weights made of lead? How should we approach the question of what type of a design system the fifth-century BC Greek architects used for Doric temples? Is it possible to say whether one of the several modern interpretations is more likely than another? Kendall's quantum modelling and Monte Carlo computer simulations may help in finding the answers.]]></description>
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      <title>Digital Critical Editions of Homer (Chiara Salvagni)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-01cs.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:58:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I intend to discuss how the scholia to the Odyssey of Homer can be encoded in order to be part of a digital edition of the first book of the Odyssey, with special concern for their critical apparatus, starting with an analysis of how a printed edition of the scholia works. I will take into account the possibility of using the Open Source Critical Edition methodological framework for my work on the Odyssey, and the specific characteristic of the Homeric text, its oral origin and the Homeric question on the existence or non existence of Homer.]]></description>
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      <title>The Portable Antiquities Scheme: a tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales (Dan Pett)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-10dp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This seminar will focus on the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, 
        which has been systematically recording public discovery of archaeological objects within the 
        boundaries of England and Wales digitally since 1999. Over 725000 objects have now been 
        recorded and 19,000 people have contributed information which is ultimately being used for a 
        wide variety of research. Records include iconic discoveries such as the Moorlands Staffordshire
        patera or trulla, the immense Frome hoard, the infamous Crosby Garrett Helmet, the world famous
        Staffordshire Hoard, and more mundane, everyday items that can demonstrate more about rural 
        habitation of Britain.]]></description>
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      <title>Modeling the mysteries: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace (Sandra Blakely)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-08sb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace promised safety in sea travel as the reward for initiation. This ongoing project tests the hypothesis that the promise was real, effected through the human social networks created through initiation and festival participation. A GIS database of sites plots the locations of Samothracian affilitation, based on epigraphic and textual evidence for initiation, theoroi, proxenoi, koina, priesthoods and shrines; historical comparanda suggest the potential for these to support long distance maritime travel. Network models recommend the hypothesis that Samothrace functioned as a super-node connecting smaller independent networks, offering an economic argument for the cult’s longevity.]]></description>
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      <title>Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace (Valentina Asciutti and Stuart Dunn)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-11va.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Throughout history, artefacts have been removed from their original location by a series of processes, leaving a fragmented picture of the material past. Geospatial and visualization technologies give us the opportunity to visualize and conceptualize the histories of such dispersed heritage, recording findspot, current location and physical and interpretive stages that went between. Using examples including Romano-British verse inscriptions and geographic data gathered on Hadrian’s Wall, we will show a database of different types of cultural heritage objects with multiple location fields. Using a combination of quantitative GIS and KML-based views of the data, we will illustrate how the history of artefacts can be traced through both time and location.]]></description>
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      <title>Bringing Modern Spell Checking Approaches to Ancient Texts: Automatized 
      Suggestions for Incomplete Words (Marco Büchler)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-09mb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:49:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the most challenging tasks when working with ancient data
      is the completion of texts that have only been partially preserved. During this presentation, a
      fully automatic approach is introduced that makes word suggestions by using machine-learning
      techniques that are already well established in spell checking or OCR correction environments.]]></description>
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      <title>Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus (Elton Barker and Leif Isaksen)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-07eb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:03:06 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Due to Google’s digitization programme, the information now available is
        unprecedented: but what exactly is there, and how can it be used? The Google Ancient Places (GAP)
        project investigates a means of facilitating the discovery of data that is of interest to scholars working
        on the ancient world, and experiments with ways of making use of the results. This paper sets out the
        work on which GAP is based, discusses our approach to finding ancient places in books, and 
        showcases some examples of use, in particular the visualization of places in GoogleMaps alongside
        the actual text.]]></description>
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      <title>Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity (Timothy Hill)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-06th.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:03:17 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[As increasing numbers of historical datasets are made available online, the
        question of how best to mediate among them becomes more pressing. But the standard computational
        approach to such mediation – the creation of a unifying framework ʻoverʼ the datasets – is problematic
        in the context of historiography: often, for historians, the question of overarching ʻframeʼ is itself the point
        at issue. This paper explores, with particular reference to Late Antique urban culture, the potential for
        electronic tools to free the historian from this reflexive bind, and facilitate an ʻexperimentalʼ research
        approach to history, as advocated by e.g. Marcel Detienne and other classicist anthropologists.]]></description>
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      <title>Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements (Agiatis Benardou)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-05ab.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:50:49 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the context of Preparing DARIAH, the DCU engaged in a research
        programme consisting partly of an empirical study of scholarly research activity. The study involved
        24 interviews, and the largest groups of interviewees included archaeologists, historians and
        classicists. What emerged was the diversity in the evidence and sources associated with Classical
        Studies nowadays. Classicists indicated that in addition to text-based research they also use
        objects, sites, and other historical-cultural material. This challenges earlier perceptions that
        Classicists only employ strictly linguistic/textual methods of research. Moreover, it indicates the
        evolving nature of Classics as an increasingly hybridized, thematic, and multi-methodological
        interdiscipline.]]></description>
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      <title>HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study (Alessandro Vatri )</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-04av.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:11:56 +0100</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[HdtDep is a treebank and search engine based on the first book of Herodotus’
        Histories. The structure of the sentences has been parsed applying a modified version of Mel’čuk’s
        dependency syntax, and has been encoded in an XML database. The search engine allows searching
        for precise dependency patterns involving specific grammatical categories or lexemes in exact
        sequences, and can easily be programmed through a user friendly graphic interface. This tool is
        especially designed for classicists and linguists investigating Greek word order—hence the choice of
        Herodotus’ prose as linguistic material—but can also be useful for teachers and language learners.]]></description>
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      <title>Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer
        (Charlotte Roueché and Charlotte Tupman )</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-03cr.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:23:48 +0100</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[SAWS uses digital technologies to analyse wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic.
        Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages collections of wise sayings (gnomologia) were circulated as a
        response to the cost and inaccessibility of full texts. These moral and philosophical anthologies formed a
        crucial route by which ideas of reasonable behaviour were disseminated over the course of centuries. We
        are publishing gnomologia using TEI XML and developing a series of explanatory links in RDF between
        sections of collections, their source texts, and texts which drew upon them. This paper discusses challenges
        in publishing and linking these texts.]]></description>
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      <title>Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data
        (David Scott and Mike Jackson)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-02ds.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:39:28 +0100</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The SPQR project (http://spqr.cerch.kcl.ac.uk) is investigating the integration of heterogeneous datasets relating to Classical antiquity via Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies to produce an intuitive way for researchers to explore the data. EpiDoc XML (including the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania) has been converted into Linked Data. In addition to relationships arising from shared properties of the objects, such as the materials from which they are made, there are links to external resources such as the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places. A user evaluation by classicists at KCL of the tools and techniques used is under way.]]></description>
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      <title>Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation
        in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical
        material (Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-01kp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:34 +0100</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Ancient documentary scholars face a range of challenges in obtaining accurate
        physical documentation to support both decipherment and study of the processes of writing. In this
        seminar we present results from a joint Southampton-Oxford AHRC-funded project designed to address
        these issues through the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technologies.
        Through case studies of Egyptian and Classical material captured using a custom lighting-dome system
        and highlight-based RTI, we demonstrate how RTI is able to overcome challenges of image lighting as
        well as providing a more reflexive environment for observation and processes of ‘looking at’ inscribed
        surfaces..]]></description>
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      <title>Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net (Linda Spinazzè)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-10ls.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[This paper will describe our research towards a solution for linking the intertextual
        research database on Latin poetry Musisque Deoque with some web resources relating to manuscripts
        held to witness variants of the text.]]></description>
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      <title>Material Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software (Kathryn Piquette)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-09kp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[In this seminar I discuss an artefact-based approach to the study of early script using the
        qualitative data analysis software, ATLAS.ti. Drawing on a case study of inscribed funerary objects from the Lower
        Nile Valley dating to the period of Egyptian ‘state’ emergence (c.3200-2750 BCE), I consider the relationships
        between physical expression and meaning.]]></description>
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      <title>Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors (Monica Berti and Marco Büchler)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-08mb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Fragmentary texts are not only material remains of ancient writings, 
        but also quotations of lost texts preserved through other texts: in this seminar the speakers 
        will show how methods of computer scientists and methodologies of classicists can be combined
        to represent fragmentary sources in a digital library of ancient testimonies]]></description>
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      <title>On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities (Mike Priddy)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-07mp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Virtual Research Environments are often highly specialised concentrating
        efforts around a single collection. The gMan project aims to demonstrate cross-collection discovery,
        annotation, reporting and management in an on-demand VRE (using gCube) with three heterogeneous
        classical collections: The Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV), Projet Volterra and The Inscriptions
        of Aphrodisias (IAph).]]></description>
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      <title>Non-contact 3D laser scanning as a tool to aid identification and
        interpretation of archaeological artefacts: the case of a Middle Bronze Age Hittite Dice
        (Annemarie La Pensée and Françoise Rutland)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-06al.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[We discuss how the 3D data created by laser scanning a metal
        fourteen-sided Hittite Dice from the Garstang collection (National Museums Liverpool),
        in conjunction with historical research, has led to new considerations about how this unusual
        object may have been manufactured, when, where and for what purpose.]]></description>
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      <title>Towards a Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References (Matteo Romanello)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-04mr.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Classicists usually refer to primary sources by means of abbreviated references, 
        called canonical references. Explicit linking of primary and secondary sources contained in the Digital Library
        implies being able to automatically interpret and extract such references, which is still an open issue. A tool
        currently under development for the automatic extraction of canonical references will be presented.]]></description>
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      <title>3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts (Mona Hess)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-05mh.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tues, 13 Jul 2010 17:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Digital technologies, like 3D colour laser scanning and 3D imaging, are not only challenging
        the traditional methods in the heritage field but they are also opening up new paths for scientific analysis of museum
        artefacts. I will discuss possibilities of integration of 3D image analysis in the daily museum workflow.]]></description>
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      <title>After Prosopography? Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre
        (Timothy Hill)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-03th.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Database technology profoundly altered the scope and power of the
        prosopography; more recently developed technologies have the potential to transform the genre
        yet again. Advances in the areas of digitised social network analysis, natural language processing,
        and ontological reasoning have the potential not only to extend the research reach and utility of the
        prosopography, but also to allow us to ask new questions of the past. The purpose of this paper is
        to outline these new technologies and tentatively to explore where these new questions might
        take us.]]></description>
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      <title>Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology (Hafed Walda)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-02hw.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[This paper will describe the process of bulding a set of guidelines for an informational
              model based on GIS technology to organise Libya’s
              archaeological data and publish it in an electronic form accessible to scholars and
              excavators both worldwide and especially in Libya itself.]]></description>
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      <title>Unearthing Structure in Ptolemy's Geography (Leif Isaksen)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-01li.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Jun 2010 13:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Ever since Ptolemy’s 'Geography' was rediscovered in 1295, scholars have noted
        that it is troublingly inconsistent both internally and with the environment in which it was supposedly compiled.
        Two new techniques by which this long-standing problem in the history of mapping can be approached will be
        presented]]></description>
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      <title>Geography: Shared Effort across Projects and Disciplines (Tom Elliott)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200906-telliott.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tues, 1 Jun 2010 16:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Pleiades (http://pleiades.stoa.org) gives scholars, students and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to
              use, create and share historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman World. Pleiades
              is a joint project of three organizations: the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York
              University), the Ancient World Mapping Center (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and the
              Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities (University of Kentucky). Our goal is a
              continuously updated, authoritative digital gazetteer for the ancient world, supporting the widest possible
              range of third-party digital projects and publications through open, standards-based interfaces. From its
              earliest concept days, Pleiades was intended to be broadly collaborative: employing, modifying and
              engendering open-content information and open-source software to accomplish its mission. This paper
              reports on the associated provisions and assesses their reach and effects within our user community,
              and beyond.]]></description>
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      <title>An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Scepsis (Alexandra Trachsel)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-10at.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2009 15:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Demetrios of Skepsis, a Hellenistic Scholar working in Asia Minor
        probably under the sphere of influence of the famous Library of Pergamon, worked on the
        Homeric text known as the Trojan Catalogue (Iliad Book 2). This project offers insight into
        the scholarly world but from another perspective than the better known Alexandrian one.
        This paper will focus on the digital aspects of the project and the issues involved in an online
        edition publishing a collection of fragments.]]></description>
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      <title>Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive (Elton Barker)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-09eb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive)
        is an interdisciplinary project that investigates the ways in which space is represented in Herodotus'
        History, and that aims to capture the 'deep' topological structures of the text beyond the usual
        two-dimensional Cartesian maps of antiquity.]]></description>
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      <title>De-engineering the Semantic Web: Linking Archaeological Data (Leif Isaksen)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-08li.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The Port Networks Project, a joint venture between a wide range of
        archaeological institutions, is using innovative computational methods known as Semantic Web
        technologies in order to synthesise the large volume of excavation data available from harbour
        excavations around the Mediterranean. This presentation focuses on the human-computer interface.]]></description>
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      <title>Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building structures (Christine Pappelau)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-07cp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Rome: a city with a long history to be read on the structures of its
        buildings. Precious materials were taken from ancient monuments and re-used for early Christian,
        medieval or Renaissance buildings. An high resolution laser scanner creates 3D models with exact
        measurements – identification of spolia by newest scientific means.]]></description>
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      <title>Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology (Cristina Vertan)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-06cv.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2009 17:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The talk will describe the general architecture of a digital research environment
        for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and
        discuss some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research
        platform (Teuchos. Zentrum für Handschriften- und Textforschung).]]></description>
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      <title>Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification
        (Roger Boyle &amp; Kia Ng)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-05rbkn.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Watermark studies go back many years, but the advent of large digital
        repositories and advances in imaging present new opportunities. We present two attacks. Both use
        a back-lighting approach that delivers good quality, digitally-native images. We exhibit work on a
        wide range of images, and have uncovered hitherto unseen results.]]></description>
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      <title>Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works
        (Marco Büchler &amp; Annette Loos)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-04mbal.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[We will discuss the technical realisation and efficiency of several dimensions of detecting citations and apply
        them in the field of the Plato's aftermath. Central parts of this presentation are graph based approaches. Based on substantial
        experience of an ongoing collaboration between researchers of Classical Studies and Computer Science we shall also reflect on the
        different approaches to working with text.]]></description>
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      <title>Linking and Querying Ancient Texts: a multi-database case study with epigraphic corpora
        (Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges, Shrija Rajbhandari)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-03mhtb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[LaQuAT investigates technologies for providing integrated views across heterogeneous ancient documentary
        text collections, including relational databases with different schemas and an XML corpus. These structurally diverse datasets overlap
        geographically, chronologically, and prosopographically, and so a mechanism for querying an integrated set of them is of considerable
        potential value to the researcher.]]></description>
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      <title>Starting Out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and mediaeval
        warfare logistics (Philip Murgatroyd)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-02pm.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[An introduction to the 'Medieval Warfare on the Grid' project, which
        seeks to use Agent-Based Modelling to fill in some of the gaps in the historical record of the Byzantine
        army's march to the Battle of Manzikert in AD1071.]]></description>
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      <title>Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri  (Bart Van Beek)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-01bv.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Several research projects at the University of Leuven currently draw
        on the interdisciplinary platform Trismegistos (http://www.trismegistos.org), which collects metadata
        about Greek, Latin, Egyptian and other ancient texts. For Greek papyri, we use the XML-encoded
        full-text corpus of the Duke Database of Documentary Papyri as a basis for data input and analysis.]]></description>
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      <title>Epigraphical encoding: from the Stone to Digital Edition
        (Marion Lamé)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200810-mlame.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Using as a case-study the fundamental ancient text, the Res
        Gestae divi Augusti, this presentation argues in favour of a historical encoding of 
        inscriptions and primary sources in general. After a very light presentation of what 
        epigraphy is, it develops and defines what is the role of computer science for this kind 
        of archaeological material composed of text and nonverbal information, both are 
        historically essential to the study of Antiquity. One of the main activities is to represent 
        inscriptions and their historical information within the computer system in order to process 
        this information and to connect inscriptions that have got this historical information as a 
        common point. The techniques I explore to build this type of "métasource" (J. Ph. Genet) 
        are XML encoding.]]></description>
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      <title>Mining Ancient Greek Literature
        (Helma Dik)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200809-hdik.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Text mining is making its way into the Humanities.
        I expect that in
        the age of large corpora, mining tools will soon have a place on the
        scholar's workbench next to the established concordancing tools, but
        this is not the case yet. In the Classics, as far as I am aware,
        nothing has been published in this area so far. Yet some of the
        field's notorious Big Questions To Be Avoided (the relative chronology
        of early epic poetry; authorship in Lysias or the Hippocratic corpus;
        women's language; ..) would seem to lend themselves to experiments in
        text mining. Will such experiments offer literary scholars results
        they actually consider interesting or meaningful? Are we perhaps
        better off studying documentary corpora or scientific texts? In my
        paper I will apply the open-source mining software Philomine developed
        at the University of Chicago to the Perseus Greek texts and discuss
        some of these Big Questions and possible future avenues.]]></description>
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      <title>Diogenes at 10 years: past development and future plans
        (Peter Heslin)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-12ph.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Diogenes is an open-source application for accessing
        the databases of ancient texts in Latin and Greek published on CD-ROM by the
        Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. It is nearly
        ten years old now, and this talk will trace the history of its development and outline
        its future prospects.]]></description>
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      <title>Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships
        (Ioannis Doukas)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-11id.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[In this paper we shall explore the possibilities opened in the
        digital scholarship of Ancient Greek literature. We shall focus on the Homeric
        Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.484-759), as it is a text that calls for a series of different
        scholarly approaches, and try to identify and present the use of the appropriate digital
        tools to accomplish these approaches.]]></description>
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      <title>From Stone to Byte: Implications of the XML publication of inscriptions
        (Charlotte Roueché)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-10cr.html</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2008 18:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[While there have always been conventions of marking-up
        Classical texts, the study and publication of literary texts have evolved separately from
        documentary materials. The corpus of ancient verse is enormously enlarged by the
        large number of verse inscriptions found inscribed on stone – principally funerary
        verse. Scholarly traditions have made it difficult to look at 'literary' and 'documentary'
        verse together. This kind of barrier can perhaps at last be surmounted by the
        intelligent use of TEI XML, although tensions will remain.]]></description>
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      <title>Digitizing the oldest complete Greek Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus project
        (Juan Garcés)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-09jg.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire
        manuscript in digital form—text, high quality images, and metadata—and make it accessible to a global
        audience for the first time. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars, conservators, and curators, the
        Project gives everyone the opportunity to connect directly with this famous artefact. This seminar will present
        the concept behind the digital edition of this manuscript.]]></description>
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      <title>Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya
        (Charlotte Tupman)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-08ct.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[1,500 Greek and Latin inscriptions survive from Roman Cyrenaica (modern Libya).
        A project to produce a digital publication of these texts is currently in progress at King’s College London,
        in association with colleagues in Libya, Italy and the U.S.A. (http://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk/).   This paper discusses
        the issues surrounding the markup of these texts in EpiDoc XML and the possibilities of associating
        archaeological data with the epigraphic material.]]></description>
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      <title>Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets
        (Ryan Baumann)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-07rb.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Creating records of inscriptions often serves multiple purposes, such as aiding
        interpretation, preservation, or dissemination. Traditionally, squeezes, sketches, and photographs have
        been the methods by which these representations have been made. This talk will explore the possibilities
        for epigraphic study offered by non-contact 3D digitization, which enables the ability to capture, distribute,
        and visualize the full geometric properties of an inscription.]]></description>
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      <title>A digital presentation of the text of Servius
        (Frances Foster)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-06ff.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[This seminar will explore the implications and significances of layout and visual
        presentation on the text of Servius's Commentaries. It will examine the state of the text and the variety
        of ways this has been presented over the centuries, and demonstrate how digital technology can be used
        to create a different way of reading the Commentaries, which reflects earlier reading habits as well as new
        ones arising from digital media.]]></description>
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      <title>Computational Approaches to Human and Animal Movement in the Archaeological Record
        (Andrew Bevan)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-05ab.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The inferential leap between the static archaeological record and our explanation of
        dynamic past behaviours is always a challenging one, but computational and quantitative techniques can be
        of great assistance. In particular, they can provide useful insight on patterns of human and animal movement,
        by better characterising existing archaeological evidence, suggesting simple models of mobile decision-making
        or proposing expected patterns of movement against which the observed record can be compared.]]></description>
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      <title>The value and price of information: reflections on e-publishing in the humanities
        (Bruce Fraser)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-04bf.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The paper attempts a change of focus from the single project to a broader range of
        e-publishing, considered by content and by target audience. The discussion covers both complex html-publications
        and scholarly papers. Potential fragilities are noted in the infrastructures which support each type, and
        consideration is given to current developments in archiving which aim to rectify them. A digital bibliography is
        included in the presentation file.]]></description>
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      <title>Son of Suda On-Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool
        (Dot Porter)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-03dp.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[I shall discuss the Son of Suda On Line (SoSOL), a proposed web-based, fully
        audited, version-controlled editing environment being built for the papyrological community but designed
        for applicability to other editing communities. It will enable the collaborative editing of texts in a framework
        of rigorous and transparent peer-review and credit mechanisms and strong editorial oversight.]]></description>
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      <title>EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials
        (Brent Seales)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-02bs.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[Often, any attempt to read fragile texts, such as papyrus rolls, fundamentally and
        irreversibly alters the structure of the object in which they are contained. The EDUCE project is developing
        a non-destructive volumetric scanning framework to enable access to such objects without the need to physically
        open them.]]></description>
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      <title>The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services
        (Elaine Matthews
        &amp; Sebastian Rahtz)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-01emsr.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 8 Jun 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <description><![CDATA[The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names was established 35 years
        ago to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names. Thorough maintenance of the
        IT infrastructure has enabled us to start making new uses of the data and enable
        inter-project exchange. We will describe the Lexicon data model, its relationship to semantic
        markup using TEI XML, web services which we can offer, and some of the novel
        investigations which can now be attempted.
        ((NOTE: due to hardware error, we have no 
        audio file to upload for this seminar.))]]></description>
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