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    <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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      <title>Deep Learning and Computational Authorship Attribution for Ancient Greek Texts. The case of the Attic Orators (Mike Kestemont, Francesco Mambrini and Marco Passarotti)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The debate on the authorship of the texts by the Ancient Greek authors is as old as the formation of Greek literary culture itself. Naturally, this debate has always known an important methodological dimension. Although the systematic study of the language and style of the Greek classics has played a pioneering role in philology, attribution research on Greek texts has so far remained relatively isolated from the development of computational stylometry, apart from a number of scattered studies in the recent past.]]></description>
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      <title>Network Analysis to Understand the Roman Commerce. Connectivity and Transport Costs of the Roman Networks (Pau de Soto)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0029-C04F-9</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In recent times, several methodological approaches have been used to analyse the Roman transport. Some of them had very traditional archaeological backgrounds (ancient sources, pottery distribution). However, this project is based on the analysis of Roman infrastructures to understand the transport costs and the commercial routes and processes. This is an indispensable way to know the benefits and shortcomings of the transportation system created in Roman times. It is well known that the Roman Empire built the first big transport network in Western Europe and also in parts of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. This overwhelming task included not only the construction of roads with their correspondent bridges, but also the building of river ports and maritime harbours. Such a huge effort aimed to create an integrated economy covering all the Roman provinces on the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the last few years, we have attempted to reconstruct the Roman transport conditions by modelling travel costs and times with the help of GIS and Network Analysis applications. The main geographical focus of this project was the NE of Hispania. It was necessary devote a significant effort to the gathering, documentation, analysis and digitisation of Roman communications with high precision. With the aim of using these methodology in a much broader geographic frame, the entire Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Britain were analysed with less detailed transport networks . It allows us to discover very interesting patterns. The results of such applications provide us with new information to understand the distribution of commodities, product competition and problems of stagnation in ancient economies such as that of Ancient Rome.]]></description>
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      <title>Mapping the Words. Experimental Visualizations of Translation Structures between Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic (Torsten Roeder and Yury Arzhanov)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0029-C04E-B</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Das Feld der Linguistik ist in den Digital Humanities seit dessen Anfängen von großer Bedeutung. Ob die abstrakten Strukturen der Informationstechnik den Sprachstrukturen besonders leicht nahe kamen, ob die Datenmengen die Verwendung von Computern interessant machten, oder ob hier noch ganz andere Faktoren im Spiel waren, darf eine offene Frage bleiben. Als ein Ertrag der Computerlinguistik stellte sich in jedem Falle heraus, dass das Sammeln von Daten nicht nur mit dem Ziel, ein elektronisches Nachschlagewerk zu erhalten, verfolgt werden könnte, sondern dass durch systematische Weiterverarbeitung und Darstellung der Daten bestimmte, meist quantitative, aber auch strukturorientierte Fragen gestellt werden könnten, deren Ergebnisse dem Forscher Hinweise auf bislang nicht erkannte Phänomene geben könnten.]]></description>
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      <title>Beyond the visual. The acoustic reconstruction and simulation of ancient senate sessions (Christian Fron)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0029-B034-2</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[After historical research has applied to the visual aspects of human perception for a long time now, as of recently the investigation of acoustic matters arouse an increased scientific interest too.1 So far still largely unresearched has been the concrete speech situation in premodern times before electro-acoustic amplification. In a large-scale study the department of ancient history in close collaboration with acousticians of the Frauenhofer-institute as well as other research disciplines attempts to adequately reconstruct and simulate ancient historic speech situations. During this research of course some further variables have to be taken into account, which nowadays barely have this central impact on the audibility of orations anymore: the spatial position of the orator, his own vocal power and speaking techniques, the behaviour of the audience (as potential disruptive factor/ additional source of noise during a speech) as well as the specific acoustic conditions of the room in which a speech is held - away from any technical means to modify this acoustic condition.]]></description>
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      <title>Across the Pond: an Experiment in Ancient History Teaching and Digital Epigraphical Research (Marion Lamé, Federico Ponchio, Ivan Radman and Bruce Robertson )</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0029-877A-F</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper presents a hybrid learning experience shared between three countries, Italy, Croatia, and Canada. In this project, an editing environment (using WebGL, PHP, HTML5, SVG, JPEG) allowed Latin-less undergraduate students to provide data about a large and challenging epigraphical corpus.]]></description>
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      <title>Love Thy (Theban) Neighbours, or how neighbour networks could help us solve the witness issue in Ptolemaic contracts (Silke Vanbeselaere)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0029-6616-C</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a first stage of the project on Theban witnesses in Demotic documents, we illustrated social network analysis and data visualisation as a technique for identifying and disambiguating historic actors in a large dataset. This next phase will present you with an example of how historical research can evolve after having used the identification method. Inspired by Padgett and Ansell’s seminal paper on the Medici: “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici 1400-1434”, we now aim to explore different types of relationships attested in the Theban sources and compare the resulting networks.]]></description>
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      <title>Diekplous! – understanding ancient naval warfare through simulations (Jorit Wintjes)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0028-F08A-2</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Throughout Greek and Roman history, naval warfare played a prominent role. Gaining, exerting and contesting sea power was an important characteristic of many a conflict from the Archaic period right down to Late Antiquity; indeed, from the Persian to the Punic wars, contesting control of the sea was often at the very centre of the conflict. Yet despite its importance naval power in general and naval action in particular is extremely poorly understood, and already the most basic questions regarding an ancient naval action – what could and what did actually happen – remain to this day mostly unanswered. Operational details lie mostly in the dark; what little research has been done on the tactical employment of warships has focused almost exclusively on the trireme and naval warfare of the 5th c. BC (Lazenby 1987, Whitehead 1987, Holladay 1988, Morrison 1991, Taylor 2012).]]></description>
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      <title>Digital Philology, World Literature, and sustainable Global Culture (Gregory Crane)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0028-F089-4</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Philology is the aggregate of those practices by which we exploit the linguistic record to engage culture perspectives that are distant from us in time, space, and/or perspective. Whether we are exploiting post-colonial theory, corpus linguistics, or some aspect of the cognitive and brain sciences, we are practicing philology. In the 21st century, we confront the challenge of managing interactions across boundaries of space, language, and culture that are unprecedented in speed and complexity, which each point on the globe now able to interact with any other point in real time. We must think in terms of a World Literature – as Goethe suggested almost two centuries ago – and to do so we must articulate a new philology, one that exploits every possibility of new digital media. Ultimately, we need to establish a sustainable set of evolving cultures – a dynamic Global Culture that provides a voice for many different cultures within it. The field of Altertumswissenschaft has an opportunity to play a fundamental role in this larger process but realizing that opportunity requires a reexamination of what we do, why we do it and for whom.]]></description>
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      <title>Thematic features for intertextual analysis (Chris Forstall and Lavinia Galli Milić)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0028-F085-C</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The study of intertextuality in Classical poetry often presents itself as a specialized case of text-reuse detection: commentaries and other close readings of a work concern themselves with the identification and exegesis of phrases borrowed from earlier texts. Yet it has long been understood that larger-scale, structural parallelisms can also exist between texts (Genette 1997), and that these can provide the context necessary to establish an allusive or intertextual link between two phrases (Wills 1996). Automatic detection of intertextuality must take into account features at various scales: from individual phonemes to larger syntactic units and type scenes. This idea was proposed by, among others, Bamman and Crane (2008), and already forms one component of existing text-reuse search tools (for example, Büchler 2010). In this work in progress, we attempt to develop scene-level features to improve the automatic scoring of word-level text-reuse for its allusive significance. Considering small samples of 30 sequential verses in a bag-of-words model, we test three different featuresets: * tf-idf weights * tf-idf weights after an attempt to correct for authorship signal * Latent Dirichlet allocation with 50 topics We then perform unsupervised clustering on the samples using k-means. The results of this clustering are compared with a human classification both of the automatically-generated samples and of scenes as delineated by critics.]]></description>
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      <title>Digitising the Trials of the Late Roman Republic (Alice Borgna and Michael Sperberg-McQueen)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Workshop: Roman Republican Trials: a Digital Edition. University College London, Friday 19th February 2016, 2-6.30pm.
        Final session:
        5.10 Alice Borgna (University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy), ‘Let’s go digital: Classics and Digital Humanities, some case-studies.’
        5.50 Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC, USA), ‘Technical challenges of TLRR2: infrastructure on a shoe-string for a distributed project.’
        (Video begins at 3 hours 15 minutes 8 seconds.)]]></description>
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      <title>Digital Technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri (Sarah Hendricks)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:56:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The technology available today could not even be dreamed of over 250 years ago when the Herculaneum Papyri were first discovered. Although technological developments have always been crucial for accessing the papyri, the dawn of the digital age and the subsequent innovations in technological resources have seen a dramatic increase in our ability to read these long-buried texts. Drawing on examples from PHerc. 78, the so-called Caecilius Statius, this paper will outline the history of technology and the Herculaneum papyri, and how changing resources have, and continue to enable, new discoveries among this unique collection.]]></description>
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      <title>Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum Encoded Corpus (Usama Gad)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Aug 2015 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[GALEN is a long-term project to produce the first comprehensive digital corpus of translations between Greek, Arabic and Latin. The project seeks not only to include the medieval translations from Greek into Arabic (8th-10th Century AD) and again from Arabic into Latin (11th -13th Century AD), but also to comprise the modern translations of Greek and Latin literature into Arabic (19th -21st Century AD). Moreover, the project would ideally include Arabic translations of Greek and Latin Papyri found in Egypt. The main idea behind this project is then to integrate as much Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum sources as one could in both Arabic and classical studies, presenting these sources to both scholars and students in a digital format with open access license CC BY-SA.]]></description>
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      <title>DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo (Federico Aurora)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2015 14:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[DAMOS is an annotated corpus of all the published Mycenaean texts, allowing for a corpus linguistics approach to the study of the earliest attested Greek dialect. Text files, reproducing the most updated editions of the texts, have been imported into a relational database (MySql) and are now being annotated for morphology, syntax and lexical information. Noteworthy is that DĀMOS allows for storing multiple, competing analyses of a given linguistic unity (e.g. a word). A rich set of metadata, including – automatically imported – detailed epigraphical information, is also available for searches and can, thus, be crossed with linguistic data. Online edition: https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos.]]></description>
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      <title>A Collection of Greek Ritual Norms Project (Saskia Peels)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This talk presents the project A Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, abbreviated CGRN (University of Liège). The CGRN is an online collection and database of over 200 Greek inscriptions with a religious subject matter, notably normative texts concerning sacrifice and purification. Using the EpiDoc XML standard, we have lemmatized the inscriptions and encoded geographic, chronological and thematic information, so that this corpus will be searchable in many different ways. Thus, our website serves not only scholars wanting to study individual inscriptions, but we hope that our tool may further our understanding of what are usually called ‘sacred laws’ more generally.]]></description>
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      <title>Integrating Digital Epigraphies (Hugh Cayless)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Integrating Digital Epigraphies (IDEs) is being developed as a Linked Data platform for digital epigraphy. The first round of development leverages data from partner projects including the PHI's Searchable Greek Inscriptions project, the SEG, the Claros concordance of epigraphical publication data, and epigraphy articles in JSTOR to develop a set of web services. Identifiers from any of the projects may be used to retrieve related data from any of the others. The goal of IDEs is not to be a portal or aggregator superseding partner projects, but a data hub that allows all of them to leverage each other’s work.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2014 16:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Historical casts of classical sculptures can now function as important archaeological records, sometimes containing archaeological information now lost from originals. However, it was not unknown for 19th century plaster craftsmen to doctor their moulds, such that when cast, a damaged sculpture would appear more complete. To determine the type and usefulness of information present in casts, 3D scanning has been conducted at the British Museum and Acropolis Museum of casts and their corresponding originals, of sections of the Parthenon sculptures. The resulting 3D images are now being produced and digitally compared to facilitate interpretation of these objects and their significances.]]></description>
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      <title>Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world (Elton Barker and Leif Isaksen)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the primary obstacles to conducting geospatial analysis of relevant documents (both maps and texts) is identifying the places to which they refer. Recogito is a user-friendly Web-based tool developed to enable: first the “geotagging” of place names either on maps or in digital texts; then the “georesolving” of those places to an appropriate gazetteer. Not only does this step provide geographical coordinates; by mapping to an authority file (a gazetteer), the documents are also connected to the Pelagios linked data network. All metadata are free and downloadable to the public as CSV files or maps.]]></description>
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      <title>The Herculaneum Papyri and Greek Magical Texts: Elucidating ancient writings with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (Kathryn Piquette)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This seminar will revolve around two Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) projects based at the University of Cologne dealing with ancient Greek texts. In addition to presenting selected results, focus will be directed to methodological and theoretical issues arising from the imaging work. The conventional use of the digital image as a resource for interpreting past written meaning will be contrasted with a more active concept of the digital image as constitutive of both past reconstructions and the interpretive process itself.]]></description>
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      <title>Gods, graves and graphs - social and semantic network analysis based on Ancient Egyptian and Indian corpora (Frederik Elwert, Simone Gerhards and Sven Sellmer)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Social networks predate the existence of Facebook. Network analysis is increasingly used to study ancient material. Its relational approach is useful to visualize and study structures in historical and literary sources. Coming originally from the social sciences, the application of network analysis in the humanities often focusses on social actors and their relations. This covers studies of letter exchange networks (Winterer 2012) as well as the implicit networks in literary texts (Mac Carron and Kenna 2013). But beyond social structures, humanists are interested in the content of their sources, which is often underrepresented in network models. This issue can be solved by including not only social, but also semantic items like lemmata in the network (Lietz 2007; Tambayong and Carley 2012).]]></description>
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      <title>Towards a population database for the Roman Empire. Why, how, and where to start from? (Rada Varga)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The current abstract sums up an ample project aiming at establishing the most viable best practices set of rules and the optimal metadata for an ancient population database.
Why is an ancient population database essential? Because a digital resource focused on individuals would reveal linkage possibilities that otherwise elude us, it would finally give us the complete and accurate image of the Roman attested population and, through codifications, it would offer the most needed overview on all relevant aspects imagined (epigraphic patterns, religiosity, migrations, onomastics, occupations, family data, etc.). A complete, aggregate database will allow a longitudinal (diachronic) view on the attested Roman population from a certain area and ideally from the whole Empire, but also a transversal (a section in time) image.]]></description>
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      <title>Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relation in Greco-Roman Names (Faith Lawrence, Gabriel Bodard and Sebastian Rahtz)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[SNAP:DRGN is an AHRC-funded project exploring the interlinking data collections of persons (prosopographies), names (onomastica) and person-like entities managed in heterogeneous systems and formats. This paper will explore the background to, and results of, the work.]]></description>
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      <title>Roman bazaar or market economy? Explaining tableware distribution processes in the Roman East through computational modelling (Tom Brughmans)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0024-5022-5</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The study of the Roman economy is populated by a large number of sometimes conflicting models. These models are rarely formally compared, and many remain untested due to the limited use of formal hypothesis testing methods in Roman studies and the significant data requirements to enable their use. This paper illustrates how broad patterns in large archaeological datasets allow for aspects of these models to be tested, and suggests agent-based network modelling as a particularly fruitful approach for the study of the Roman economy.]]></description>
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      <title>Creating a Dynamic Grammar of Ancient Greek (Yannick Anné and Toon Van Hal)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0024-412A-0</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The paper will present an ongoing research project (Γ-project from now) aiming at designing a dynamic grammar of Ancient Greek. Just as many other languages, Ancient Greek is characterized by a complex interplay between its rich morphological features, its wide range of semantic roles and its diverse syntactic functions.]]></description>
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      <title>Reviewing digital editions: The Codex Sinaiticus (Markus Schnöpf)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0024-29C7-0</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the last years much effort was put in the construction of digital editions, covering all epochs from antiquity to modern writers. Looking at these digital scholarly editions, a huge variety of methods, presentations and tools has been developed. The Insitut für Dokumentologie und Editorik (IDE) has published in 2012 a catalogue with criteria for the analysis of digital editions (english version followed in June 2014. These criteria give a kind of standard for the review process of digital editions. Recently the IDE has launched an online journal called RIDE, where digital editions are reviewed, following the mentioned criteria. Thus it is possible to identify best practice methods in the construction of scholarly digital editions. The criteria, that can be applied to review digital editions, contain the following topics: subject and content of the edition, aims and methods,publication and presentation.
In the proposed paper I will present these criteria and as well the journal. In the second part I will apply these criteria on the digital edition of the Codex Sinaiticus. The Codex Sinaiticus is a joint project of the British Library, the National Library of Russia, the St. Catherines Monastery and the Leipzig University Library. The digital Codex reunions virtually the Codex, whose leafs are distributed on the four institutions. It offers high resolution scans of the Folii, a transcription of the text and partly translations. The Codex is the most complete and oldest copy of the New Testament and was written some 1600 years ago. The digital Codex was published in 2009 and received much public interest.]]></description>
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      <title>Digital Classics: Back to the Future? (Charlotte Roueché)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0024-1E31-1</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Over the last decades the application of digital tools and approaches to the study of the classics has expanded and evolved. Based on her own experiences Prof. Roueché will explore those developments and will consider how new tools may help us to restore old standards and rediscover Altertumswissenschaft.]]></description>
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      <title>The Digital Marmor Parium (Monica Berti)</title>
      <link>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-digital-marmor-parium</link>
      <guid>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-digital-marmor-parium</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Digital Marmor Parium.]]></description>
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      <title>Bringing People Together (Gabriel Bodard)</title>
      <link>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-bringing-people-together-standards-networking-ancient-prosopographies</link>
      <guid>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-bringing-people-together-standards-networking-ancient-prosopographies</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bringing People Together: Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies.]]></description>
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      <title>The Europeana Best Practice Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Pietro Liuzzo)</title>
      <link>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-europeana-best-practice-network-ancient-greek-and-latin-epigraphy</link>
      <guid>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-europeana-best-practice-network-ancient-greek-and-latin-epigraphy</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Europeana Best Practice Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy.]]></description>
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      <title>What is the TEI? (James Cummings)</title>
      <link>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-what-tei-and-why-should-i-care</link>
      <guid>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-what-tei-and-why-should-i-care</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What is the TEI? And Why Should I Care?.]]></description>
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      <title>Mapping the Ancient World (Elton Barker)</title>
      <link>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-mapping-ancient-world-countercartography-networks-and-bottomless-maps</link>
      <guid>http://www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/digital-classics-mapping-ancient-world-countercartography-networks-and-bottomless-maps</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mapping the Ancient World: Countercartography, Networks and Bottomless Maps.]]></description>
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      <title>A new approach to Digital Editions of Ancient Manuscripts using CIDOC-CRM, FRBRoo and RDFa (Barry Norton)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-10do.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-10do.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:43:51 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The British Museum are producing a digital edition of Malcolm Mosher's work on the Book of the Dead, within which spells are presented in aggregated translations according to a number of traditions, presented alongside representative original vignettes. Papyri and linens that carry the spells and vignettes are distributed between different international institutions, but are associated with a much wider body of material culture that help to provide context for the spells. In our work the FRBRoo ontology is used to formalise the relationship between different works and manifestations, and interlinked with object descriptions in the CIDOC-CRM ontology.]]></description>
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      <title>Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names (Sebastian Rahtz and Gabriel Bodard)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-09sr.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-09sr.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:58:39 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[SNAP:DRGN (snapdrgn.net) is an AHRC-funded exploratory project which aims to address the problem of linking together large prosopographies (datsets containing information about persons, names and person-like entities) managed in heterogeneous systems and formats. This paper will explore the background to and results of the work, describe the problems, the data and the tools we can produce to illustrate of the value of the data, and demonstrate research methods for working with the new material and information produced.]]></description>
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      <title>Papyrology and Linguistic Annotation: How can we make TEI EpiDoc XML corpus and Treebanking work together? (Marja Vierros)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-08mv.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-08mv.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2014 11:38:26 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Greek documentary papyri provide a rich source for linguists who wish to study Ancient Greek as it was written in everyday texts, preserved directly from antiquity. The corpus is already in digital form, but it does not contain linguistic annotation that would help linguists find interesting structures and forms. This paper presents a preliminary phase of a project focused on annotating the fragmentary and manifold papyrus material using a Dependency Treebank model.]]></description>
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      <title>Clotho: Network Analysis and Distant Reading on the Perseus Latin Corpus (Thibault Clérice)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-07tc.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-07tc.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:42:04 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How do we handle Latin texts with digital tools? How do we apply to Latin sources technologies and algorithms which have been developed for the linguistic study of modern languages? Clotho is a resource which aims to address these questions in an Open-Source format, providing network analysis, data extraction mechanisms, and document statistics. Using these tools, Lasciva Roma, a project of cultural network analysis around the lexical field of terms related to sexuality, was launched in 2014. This seminar will explore and review this project, focusing on how the community can use these tools, and how to ensure the tools and the data will not be lost.]]></description>
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      <title>Retracing Theban Witness Networks in Demotic Contracts (Silke Vanbeselaere)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-06sv.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:22:26 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper focuses on the presence of witnesses in Demotic contracts from Ptolemaic Thebes. It investigates the interpersonal links between the three main actor groups of these contracts. The scribes and parties have always received a lot of attention from papyrologists, but the witnesses have more or less been neglected so far. We will try to provide an answer to the crucial question of how these witnesses were chosen with the help of social network analysis.]]></description>
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      <title>The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) and Linked Open Data (Pietro Liuzzo)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-05pl.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:52:04 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy aims to provide historians and the general public with a curated online multi-text edition which has high quality contents and related contents as well as high quality data in multiple interoperable formats. Linked Open Data principles aim at bringing things together so we have tried to follow those guidelines. EAGLE considered two standards: TEI – EpiDoc and CIDOC CRM and we work towards tools to facilitate wilful alignment as well as coordinated linking via third parties annotations or through the alignment to common vocabularies (of contents), gazetteers and bibliographies.]]></description>
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      <title>The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (Monica Berti, Greta Franzini, Simona Stoyanova)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-04gf.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-04gf.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:11:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS) is a new collaborative project that seeks to create open electronic editions of ancient works that survive only through quotations and text re-uses in later texts. The large diversity and dispersion of these materials entreats a dynamic infrastructure which fully supports and represents the relationships between sources, citations and annotations. LOFTS links fragments to the source text from which they are drawn, and aligns them to multiple editions and translations, thus providing an enhanced understanding of the fragmentary textual heritage it showcases.]]></description>
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      <title>Public Archaeology in a Digital Age (Lorna Richardson)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-03lr.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 15:49:02 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper will discuss the need for diverse archaeological communities to widen participation and engage new audiences on a more collaborative platform. The paper will discuss the results of my doctoral research, which has provided data that can be used to improve user experience, engagement and participation with archaeology and other heritage subjects via Internet technologies, and embed usability and sustainability within digital archaeological projects. Understanding the impact of participatory media will aid archaeologists and those in the heritage fields to promote the advantages of digital engagement and public collaboration, in terms of economic benefit, social justice, learning outcomes, diversifying audiences and the promotion of social inclusion.]]></description>
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      <title>Neo-Latin poetry in English manuscripts, 1550-1700 (Victoria Moul and Charlotte Tupman)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-02vm.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:56:31 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper discusses a proposed project to examine the role and significance of the large quantities of neo-Latin poetry composed and circulated within the thriving manuscript culture of early modern England (c. 1550-1700). It will produce a searchable digital edition of representative examples of early modern Latin poetry in English manuscripts, and a body of print publications analysing this almost unstudied wealth of material. We address the typical genres and forms of neo-Latin poetry in manuscript and how they are used; the relationship between original Latin and English poetry in manuscript sources; and the political significance of such poetry.]]></description>
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      <title>On Cognition and the Digital in the Study of Ancient Textual Artefacts (Ségolène Tarte)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2014-01st.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:42:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scholars studying Ancient Textual Artefacts endeavour to create knowledge through the decipherment, transcription, transliteration, edition, commentary, and contextualization of textual artefacts, thereby transforming data and information into knowledge and meaning.  Their task is hence intrinsically interpretative, and relies heavily on the mobilization of both perceptual and conceptual cognitive processes. This talk will present a number of conceptual and perceptual processes that were identified through ethnographic studies of scholars at work and linked to the cognitive sciences literature. Some show embodied cognition at work, others show the role of unconscious knowledge in the act of interpretation of Ancient Textual Artefacts.]]></description>
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          <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D546-F</link>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:26:46 +0100</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Many issues on dealing with chronological expressions in digital data are still unsolved. The presentation will be giving an overview of selected chronological concepts and representations for annual dating by eponyms known in antiquity and reasoning current efforts of standardisation and relevant projects. Focusing on Roman consulship the paper discusses approaches to identify and annotate such terms in the source texts based on TEI/epidoc conventions. Goal is to connect them to authoritative resources using Linked Data principles.]]></description>
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          <title>Visualization of Ancient Cosmological Models: a presentation of completed work and some difficulties (Henry Mendell)</title>
          <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D545-2</link>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:26:46 +0100</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[A good visualization is an essential part of understanding ancient astronomical models. There are two principal forms, geometrical models and spread sheets, where each should reveal their technique of construction. Such visualizations are principally pedagogical, but they can also serve as research tools. As part of Topoi 1, Group-D, Sebastian Szczepanski and I developed software for the visualization of ancient cosmological theories. These included the 4th cent. BCE planetary models of Eudoxus, Aristotle, and Calippus, as well as the basic planetary models of Ptolemy’s Almagest. Because the visualizations are open source and written in HTML- 5, they have a higher likelihood of surviving than many other potential platforms. Most important is the flexibility of the program that allows the user to modify all the parameters, to reveal or hide or even eliminate components of a model, to focus in on certain features of the model, or to change views. In the Ptolemaic models, which are coordinated to Julian, Gregorian, and Egyptian calendars, one may set the clock to where one wishes and see the results. I shall also discuss some issues in the development of a spread sheet presentations of ancient astronomy.]]></description>
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      <title>Towards Digital Coptic: Searching and Visualizing Coptic Manuscript Data (Amir Zeldes)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D54A-7</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:24:02 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Coptic language of Hellenistic Egypt has been chronically underrepresented in the digital humanities landscape despite the masses of material available and general multidisciplinary interest in Egypt in the first millennium for ancient history, religious studies and the classics. In this talk we present some of the first efforts to offer an open infrastructure for the online representation of Coptic texts using automated tools which have become commonplace for Classical Greek and Latin in the last decade. The talk is divided into two parts, discussing searching and visualizing Coptic data respectively. In the first part we discuss challenges related to segmentation, normalization and metadata annotation of Coptic, given the agglutinative nature of the language, varying conventions on splitting scriptio continua and the physically disjoint state of many Coptic papyri and codices, sometimes available in multiple copies. The second part will present our solutions to visualizing both structural properties of manuscripts encoded based on TEI conventions and linguistic information, such as morphological, syntactic or semantic information. These issues are complicated by the need for conflicting segmentation layers, reconciling line or page breaks in mid-word and the different levels of Coptic morphology.]]></description>
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      <title>The Hellespont Project: Integrating Arachne and Perseus in a new Linked Data interface (Agnes Thomas, Alexander Recht and Karen Schwane)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D544-4</link>
      <guid>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D544-4</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:44:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Hellespont Project as a case study integrates metadata of archaeological objects from the Arachne and Perseus databases based on the CIDOC CRM (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model) with the content of Thucydides 1.89-1.118 as well as related secondary literature automatically extracted from JSTOR. In the presentation we want to show how the user will access the interface for Hellespont Linked Data, which - as one main part of the project - is currently still being implemented. The other part of the project is embodied by the so called GapVis for Hellespont, a text-based interface where it is possible to navigate alongside the text of Thucydides with different views on all places, persons and organisations for each text passage and connected information. The connection between the Linked Data interface, GapVis, and also the links back to Arachne and Perseus as well the technologies behind are discussed in the second part of the paper.]]></description>
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      <title>Dynamic Syllabi for Historical Language Instruction (Gregory Crane, Stella Dee, Maryam Foradi, Monica Lent and Maria Moritz)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TThe Historical Language e-Learning Project is currently building a system to game-ify the learning of historical languages, beginning with Ancient Greek. Linguistic data drives the pilot pilot project, in which we will prepare students to read Thucydides through a dynamic syllabus released in January 2014. Later syllabi will generalize the approach, allowing students to work with material of their choice. In addition to targeting reading fluency, our materials will enable students to contribute to the morpho-syntactic annotation of textual sources. This morpho-syntactic annotation will then serve as the foundation for further computational linguistic research and iterations of pedagogical material. The Project understands the need for multilingual resources, and our localized approach will enable students to complete games and exercises in their L1, including translation production and alignment. We will publish initial resources in English, Persian, and Croatian, with more languages to follow. Furthermore, we are committed to the free exchange of data and instruction, and all code, text, and learning resources will be available under open licenses. We will use the back-end analysis of learning behavior and student error to inform the future publications of dynamic resources adaptable to individual differences in learning. As part of the Open Philology Project at Universität Leipzig, the Historical Language e-Learning Project builds upon the work of a number of international collaborators, particularly the work of Alpheios, the Perseus Digital Library, Perseids and the Homer Multitext Project.]]></description>
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      <title>The Glossarium Graeco­-Arabicum. Linguistic Research and Database Design in Polyalphabetic Environments (Torsten Roeder and Yury Arzhanov)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum, hosted by the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, is since 2010 part of the ERC advanced
      project “Greek into Arabic - Philosophical Concepts and Linguistic Bridges”. It makes available the files of the lexical project, intended to open up the lexicon of the mediæval Arabic translations from the Greek. From the eighth to the tenth century A. D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. This activity resulted in the incorporation and reorganization of the classical heritage in the new civilization which, using Arabic, spread with Islam. The object of the project Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum is to make readily available to scholars the direct information which the Graeco-Arabic translations contain for several areas of research.]]></description>
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      <title>The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project. A new resource for Pompeii, a new model complex for classical sites (Eric Poehler)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D549-9</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:44:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Landscapes, both literal and figurative, have incredible power in structuring thought and interpretation in the humanities. The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project is building a unique resource to leverage the physical landscape of Pompeii as a means to navigate and query the ancient city’s bibliographic landscape. Because Pompeii lacks both a single, searchable bibliography and a standard, up-to-date map, the creation of a resource that solves these problems and simultaneously offers new and powerful search methods will revolutionize research on the ancient city. The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Resource (PBMR) is a web-based research environment composed of three parts: 1. Bibliographic Database and Full-Text Document Repository, 2. Geographical Information System (GIS) and 3. User Interface. At base, the PBMR is a research tool that affords the user the ability to navigate Pompeii’s urban topography and discover an extensive account of the information about each location. The GIS component provides a powerful mapping tool that can generate custom maps for diverse user groups. Users working on a particular building can create both overview and detailed maps to illustrate their study, which could be based on information provided by the PMBR as a research tool. The most powerful use of the PBMR is as an analysis tool, allowing the user to vacillate between bibliographic analysis tools and spatial analysis tools. For example, one might search for the term “House” in the bibliography, narrow those results to houses of less than 200m2 using the GIS, and then return to the bibliography to search this subset of results for houses published in the last 30 years. Thus, the PBMR permits one to ask a series of questions and receive data-rich answers impossible to achieve in any other method. Finally, although focused on the novel means of delivering the scholarship of a particular archaeological site, the anticipated users will not be limited to the academics who study that site. Similarly, the specific content of the project – Pompeii – will not limit its application by other aspects of classics or other subjects in the humanities.]]></description>
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      <title>EVA: An Expert System for Vases of the Antiquity (Martina Trognitz)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D542-8</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:00:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[An expert system for computer aided classification and dating of ceramics is presented. With this program an archaeological problem is addressed with natural language processing methods.]]></description>
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      <title>Open Education, Open Educational Resources, and their impact on research led teaching in Classics (Simon Mahony)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-0022-D53B-9</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:40:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This presentation will develop themes from current research in the area of Open Education and more specifically Open Educational Resources (OER). To encourage open educational practices requires much more than technological changes; it requires an understanding of the challenges facing the educational community today and how OERs can help them achieve their goals particularly in research led teaching and learning. These ideas will be located within the sphere of teaching and research in Classics drawing on the experiences of the Digital Classicist and other open initiatives in Classical Studies.]]></description>
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      <title>Insights in the World of Thucydides: The Hellespont Project as a research environment for Digital History (Agnes Thomas, Francesco Mambrini, Matteo Romanello)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-10at.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:11:59 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Hellespont Project aims to integrate two of the largest online collections for the study of Antiquity, the Perseus Digital Library and the Arachne archaeological database, in a dynamic digital research environment. Our case study is focused on a limited historical period, the 50 years in the history of Athens between the Persian Wars and the outburst of the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE), following the narration presented by Thucydides (1.89-118). Our goal is to create a “digital sourcebook” where the different sources (texts and images) are linked and enriched with linguistic, archaeological and historical annotation.]]></description>
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      <title>Scholarly reasoning and writing in an automatically assembled and tested digital library (Neel Smith)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-09ns.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:06:56 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[For more than 30 years, computer scientists have discussed “literate programming,” an approach that treats computer programs as works of literature, as well as sources for machine instructions. I propose an approach to writing in the humanities that inverts that model, and treats scholarly prose as a source for machine-actionable citations, as well as a logical argument. I will draw illustrations from the Homer Multitext project, and will briefly survey how all of the information in its editorial work on Homeric manuscripts is translated into hundreds of thousands of RDF statements with citable URNs as their subject.]]></description>
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      <title>Teaching with the Perseids Platform: Tools and methods (Marie-Claire Beaulieu)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-08mb.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-08mb.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Aug 2013 11:33:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Perseids online collaborative environment offers a new pedagogical model for Classics in which students participate directly in the creation of knowledge. This presentation will detail two uses cases of Perseids. The first use case, in which a class collaborates to edit, translate, and annotate documents offers students an occasion to step out of the traditional Classical canon to process materials such as manuscripts and inscriptions. The second use case, dynamic syllabi using managed resources, lets professors assign texts for students to read and annotate, design tests, and gather data for student evaluation. This use case will be demonstrated for a language class and a Classical Mythology course.]]></description>
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      <title>An Integrated System For Generating And Correcting Polytonic Greek OCR (Bruce Robertson, Federico Boschetti)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-07br.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:03:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The digital books revolution has left behind scholars working with ancient Greek: the most important impediments to digitizing polytonic Greek have been the lack of a high-quality optical character recognition for this script, especially under open-source licenses, and an assisted editor for polytonic Greek proof-reading. We present a integrated system that fills these critical gaps, making it possible for polytonic Greek texts to be digitized en masse by Rigaudon OCR, a complete suite of scripts, python code and data required for producing polytonic Greek OCR. The output provided by Rigaudon OCR is post-processed and piped to the CoPhiProofReader web application.]]></description>
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      <title>A Catalogue of Digital Editions (Greta Franzini)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-06gf.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-06gf.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:26:14 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The oldest surviving manuscript of St Augustine's De Civitate Dei dates back to the early fifth century, and most research on it predates the 1950s. Its much debated provenance and authorship, due to being contemporary with Augustine himself, are as intriguing as its rare palaeographical features and marginalia. I am creating a detailed catalogue of extant digital editions to examine best practice in the field of digital editions. Lessons from this catalogue will be presented to help scholars better understand the field of electronic editing, and further to inform the production of my electronic edition of De Civitate Dei.]]></description>
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      <title>The Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project (Eleni Bozia)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-06eb.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-06eb.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:49:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This presentation will introduce the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project, a digital toolbox meant to assist individual epigraphists, archaeologists, institutions, and museums. Our project is an open-source, cross-platform web-application designed to facilitate the digital preservation, study, and electronic dissemination of ancient inscriptions and other archaeological artifacts. It allows epigraphists to digitize in 3D their squeezes using our novel cost-effective technique, which overcomes the limitations of the current methods. Also, it gives users the option to perform automatic morphological analysis and comparison between archaeological artifacts digitized in 3D, such as statues, coins, lamps, and vases.]]></description>
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      <title>The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: a federated platform for discovery and research (Dot Porter)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-05dp.html</link>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-05dp.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:55:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) is an international community of scholars, projects, institutions, and organizations engaged in digital scholarship within the field of medieval studies. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MESA makes recommendations on technological and scholarly standards for electronic scholarship, aggregates data from digital projects, and provides an interface for scholars to discover and repurpose this data. The seminar will focus on how MESA serves the “traditional” medievalist who is interested in finding and using digital resources. Starting with a history of medievalists and their interactions with digital technology, the seminar will finish with a demonstration of MESA.]]></description>
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      <title>Putting Translations To Work: TransVis  (Tom Cheesman)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-03tc.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:59:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper will discuss a proposed digital platform for exploring differences among translations, including proof-of-concept work on 37 German versions of Othello dating from 1766 to 2010: translations, adaptations, rewritings; reading editions, theatre scripts, student cribs. We shall next collect up to 180 versions of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice in 12 languages, and develop a suite of analytic tools for explorative and educational uses. We shall also explore other sets of translations, including English and Czech versions of Euripides' Medea. Alternative versions are not only of interest for studies of a work's reception, of target cultures, and of translation or versioning processes; translations can also be mined to tell us things we did not know about the translated works themselves..]]></description>
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      <title>An Ontology for 3D Visualisation in Cultural Heritage (Valeria Vitale)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-02vv.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:25:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Behind each scholarly 3D visualisation is a thorough study of records, iconography, literary sources, artistic canons and precedents. However, this research process is seldom visible in the final outcome to either the general public or the academy. This paper suggests the use of an RDF ontology to describe 3D models, identify relationships, and connect them to their diverse related sources (photographs, GIS coordinates, academic literature, etc.). If such an ontology can be derived and applied it will optimise the documentation process, and further, allow 3D visualisations to join and enrich the growing network of linked digital resources to study the past.]]></description>
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      <title>Exploring visibility networks in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain with Exponential Random Graph Models (Tom Brughmans)</title>
      <link>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013-01tb.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:21:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Are lines of sight between Roman towns important for explaining their location? Through a case study on visibility patterns between urban settlements in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain, this paper will discuss how Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM) can help explore hypothetical past processes of interaction and site location. With these models the frequency of certain subnetworks in random networks and the empirically attested network is compared, to examine the probability that the subnetworks might have emerged through random processes. This paper will critically evaluate the potential and limitations of such an approach for archaeology.]]></description>
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      <title>Presenting fragments as quotations or quotations as fragments (Alexandra Trachsel)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2013/02/15/Trachsel</link>
      <guid>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2013/02/15/Trachsel</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 11:57:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[When dealing with the fragments of Demetrios’ work, we are facing texts which are only transmitted through indirect transmission. This means that we have to rely on quotations made by ancient authors to get access to his work. Unfortunately we do not have kept the different steps of this initial selection-process and cannot measure the difference between the original lost work and the form ancient authors gave those quoted passages when introducing them into their own works. Likewise, the modern editors, when trying to extract the passages out of the source-texts in order to compose their collections of fragments, base their choices on selective principles which depend on their own understanding of the source-texts. They choices may therefore differ widely and provide competing reconstructions of the lost work.]]></description>
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      <title>The Practical Prognosticator - On the Use and Abuse of Ptolemy’s Geography (Leif Isaksen)</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1780-0000-000D-F270-0</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:05:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper will argue that Ptolemy’s Geographike Hyphegesis does not represent a linear development of Greek geographic thought but is instead a unique fusion of pre-Ptolemaic sources that far surpasses its precursors. It makes the case that the work’s purpose is to provide a terrestrial counterpart to the astronomical data and compiled in the Almagest. This is expressly to derive local celestial phenomena for a given time in order to draw a wide range of astrological, meteorological, environmental and anthropological conclusions.]]></description>
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      <title>Digital social network analysis and ancient literature: Libanius’ Epistolary Ego-Network (Lieve Van Hoof)</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:05:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recent years have seen a boom in the application of digital social network analysis to ancient history and archaeology (e.g. Schor, Ruffini). Greek and Latin literature, however, have seldom been studied from this point of view. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges involved in applying digital social network analysis to the letters of Libanius (314-393 A.D.).]]></description>
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      <title>Egyptology meets Digital Humanities: The Book of the Dead (Patrick Sahle and Ulrike Henny)</title>
      <link>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2013/01/07/Sahle-Henny</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 17:00:46 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Egyptian “Book of the Dead” has been the object of study in a long term research project of the North Rhine-Westfalian Academy of Science and the Arts, operated at the University of Bonn (early 1990s - 2012). The “Book” is a corpus of c. 200 spells in the form of texts and/or illustrations (vignettes) and witnessed in varying order and completeness by c. 3000 objects. Within the digitization efforts of the academy, in 2011, the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) was commissioned to transform the internal research database and the image archive into a digital research platform. It is built on a project specific data model for object descriptions and a contextual knowledge base. Regarding data standards and techniques, the digital environment resides completely in the X-world: underlying XML data, an eXist database as backbone and XQuery, XSLT and XForms as processing methods to create the user interface. The archive provides several browse & search facilities allowing to explore the textual and visual witnesses. New information can be added by input interfaces, and various indices and visualizations have been prepared to support scholars in finding answers to their research questions. In addition to a general overview on the project and its achievements, three particular issues will be addressed: practical and theoretical implications of data visualization, the integration of the archive into the research community by technical interfaces, and the question of a sustainable information resource beyond the funding period.]]></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>
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      <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>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>
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      <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>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>
      <guid>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/11/12/Mambrini</guid>
      <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>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>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://de.digitalclassicist.org/berlin/2012/10/19/Bodard_keynote</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-08pm.html</guid>
      <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>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-06ct.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-05mb.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-04ag.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-03ac.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-02jp.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-01cs.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-10dp.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-08sb.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-11va.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-09mb.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-07eb.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-06th.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-05ab.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-04av.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:11:56 +0100</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-03cr.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:23:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <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>
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      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-02ds.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:39:28 +0100</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011-01kp.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-10ls.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-09kp.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-08mb.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-07mp.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-06al.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-04mr.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-05mh.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-03th.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-02hw.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010-01li.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200906-telliott.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-10at.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-09eb.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-08li.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-07cp.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-06cv.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-05rbkn.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-04mbal.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-03mhtb.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-02pm.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-01bv.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200810-mlame.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/occas200809-hdik.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-12ph.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-11id.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-10cr.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-09jg.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-08ct.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-07rb.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-06ff.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-05ab.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-04bf.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-03dp.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-02bs.html</guid>
      <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>
      <guid>http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008-01emsr.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 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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