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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>
    <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/</link>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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    <copyright>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/</copyright>
    <managingEditor>gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk</managingEditor>
    <webMaster>gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk</webMaster>
    <category>Digital Humanities</category>
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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 June 2008 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <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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      <title>EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials
        (Brent Seales)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-02bs.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tuesday, 24 June 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>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>Tuesday, 24 June 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>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>Tuesday, 1 July 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>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>Thursday, 17 July 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>A digital presentation of the text of Servius
        (Frances Foster)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-06ff.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tuesday, 22 July 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>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>Friday, 25 July 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>Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya
        (Charlotte Tupman)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-08ct.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tuesday, 29 July 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>Digitizing the oldest complete Greek Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus project
        (Juan Garcés)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-09jg.html</link>
      <pubDate>Friday, 08 August 2008 13:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Seminar]]></category>
      <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>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>Wednesday, 13 August 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>Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships
        (Ioannis Doukas)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-11id.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thursday, 21 August 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>Diogenes at 10 years: past development and future plans
        (Peter Heslin)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-12ph.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tuesday, 26 August 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>Mining Ancient Greek Literature
        (Helma Dik)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200809-hdik.html</link>
      <pubDate>Tuesday, 09 September 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>Epigraphical encoding: from the Stone to Digital Edition
        (Marion Lamé)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200810-mlame.html</link>
      <pubDate>Friday, 31 October 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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