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Seminar: Digital technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri

By Simon Mahony, on 11 August 2015

Digital Classicist seminar logoThis week sees the final seminar in this Summer’s series.

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

Friday August 15 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Sarah Hendriks (CISPE: Centro Internazionale Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, Naples): ‘Digital technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri’

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.

Hendriks

 

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The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

The full abstract is available on the seminar programme page.

 

Seminar: Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum Encoded Corpus (GALEN©)

By Simon Mahony, on 4 August 2015

Digital Classicist seminar logoDigital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

Friday August 7 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Usama Gad (Heidelberg): ‘Graecum-Arabicum-Latinum Encoded Corpus (GALEN©)’

 

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.

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ALL WELCOME

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

The full abstract is available on the seminar programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

Seminar: DAMOS – Database of Mycenaean at Oslo

By Simon Mahony, on 28 July 2015

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Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

Friday July 31 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Federico Aurora (Oslo): ‘DAMOS – Database of Mycenaean at Oslo’

DĀMOS 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.

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The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

The full abstract is available on the seminar programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

Seminar: A Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN)

By Simon Mahony, on 21 July 2015

Digital Classicist seminar logo

Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

Friday July 24 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Saskia Peels (Liège): ‘A Collection of Greek Ritual Norms Project (CGRN)’

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.

CGRN-project

As always the seminar will be followed by discussion over wine and refrshments.

ALL WELCOME

The full abstract is available on the seminar programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

 

Digital Classicist seminar: Integrating Digital Epigraphies (IDEs)

By Simon Mahony, on 14 July 2015

Digital Classicist seminar logoDigital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

Friday July 17th at 16:30, in Room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Hugh Cayless (Duke)

‘Integrating Digital Epigraphies (IDEs)’

 

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.

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As always the seminar will be followed by discussion over wine and refrshments.

ALL WELCOME

The full abstract is available on the seminar programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

Seminar:

By Simon Mahony, on 7 July 2015

Digital Classicist seminar logoDigital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

Friday July 10th at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Monica Berti (Leipzig), Gregory R. Crane (Tufts & Leipzig), Kenny Morrell (Center for Hellenic Studies)

‘Sunoikisis DC – An International Consortium of Digital Classics Programs’Berti_Image

Sunoikisis DC is an international consortium of Digital Classics programs developed by the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig in collaboration with the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Sunoikisis DC aims at reaching a global audience and offers collaborative courses that foster interdisciplinary paradigms of learning and allow students of both the humanities and computer science to work together by contributing to digital classics projects in a collaborative environment. The goal of this talk is to present the activities of the consortium and its results.

As always the seminar will be followed by discussion over wine and refrshments.

ALL WELCOME

The full abstract is available on the seminar programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world

By Simon Mahony, on 12 June 2015

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This week’s Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar:

Friday June 12th at 16:30 in Room G34, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Leif Isaksen, Pau de Soto (Southampton), Elton Barker (Open
University) and Rainer Simon (Vienna):
‘Pelagios and Recogito: an annotation platform for joining a linked data world.’

This session will also be live-cast to our YouTube channel

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.

The full abstract is available on the programme page.

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

Digital Classicist London 2015 seminar series

By Simon Mahony, on 4 June 2015

Digital Classicist seminar logoThe Digital Classicist London summer seminar series starts this Friday with a PhD student from UCL Ancient History.

As in previous years, the seminars will be recorded with video, audio and slides made available on the DC seminar pages. See last year’s programme. In addition the video recordings are also uploaded to the Digital Classicist London YouTube channel.

This year the seminars will also be live streamed and the link will be available on the programme page.

Seminar: From lost archives to digital databases

Friday June 5 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Jen Hicks (UCL)
From lost archives to digital databases

Of the leather documents used by the administration and individuals of the Seleukid empire (ca 312- 63 BC), all that remains are the small pieces of clay that were used to seal them; these however survive in their tens of thousands in Mesopotamia and the Levant. In this paper I will consider the potential and limitations of using these lumps of mud, through the construction of digital databases and statistical analysis, to reconstruct these lost archives, and to understand the imperial structures of the Seleukid power.

The full abstract is available on the programme page.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

ALL WELCOME

The full 2015 programme is available on the Digital Classicist London seminar page.

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2010: 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

By Claire S Ross, on 1 July 2010

This week’s session in the Digital Classicist ICS summer seminar series is from
Mona Hess from the UCL Museums and Collections and the E-Curator project.

Friday July 2nd at 16:30
STB9 (Stewart House), Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Mona Hess (University College London)
3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

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. (full abstract here)

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For the full programme see:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2010.html

Our very own Simon Mahony, co-organises the Digital Classicist, as well as the summer seminar series they also have a email discussion list and wiki.  All are welcome to seminars so please do attend if you can.