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The Digital Classicist: building a Digital Humanities Community.
Simon Mahony (University College London)[email protected] All original content is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
The Digital Classicist
• A case study for developing and importantly sustaining a Digital Humanities community– Background
• how did this all this start?
– Development • why did it evolve in the way it did?
– Reflection • what have we learned from all this?
– Future • where will we go from here
Background
• Motivation– A critical mass of people coming together with similar
interests
• Antecedents– The Stoa Consortium established 1997: Ross Scaife
– Digital Medievalist established 2003
Background
• Early days– Poster at DHR 2005 Lancaster (programme)– CLiP 2006 conference at King's College London– Seminar series launched at ICSL (2006)
• Institute of Classical Studies, London
• Building on what experiences?– Department of Classics research seminars (KCL 2003-4)– Work-in-Progress (WiP) Postgraduate seminar series– Ersatz series (2004)
Background
• Early days– Poster at DHR 2005 Lancaster (programme)– CLiP 2006 conference at King's College London– Seminar series launched at ICSL (2006)
• Institute of Classical Studies, London
• Building on what experiences?– Department of Classics research seminars (KCL 2003-4)– Work-in-Progress (WiP) Postgraduate seminar series– Ersatz series (2004)
The Summer Ersatz WiP
Institute of Classical Studies Work- in- Progress Seminars
Fri 13 August at 16:30 Senate House Rm 331
How to "Read" a Film: "taking the classics department to the movies"
Kim Shahabudin
(University of Reading)
There will be refreshments after the seminar, followed by a visit to a local tavern.
For more information, contact [email protected] or [email protected]
11/08/2004 11:27The Summer Ersatz WiP^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Institute of Classical StudiesWork-in-Progress Seminars
Fri 13 August at 16:30Senate House Rm 331
How to "Read" a Film:"taking the classics department to the movies"
Kim Shahabudin(University of Reading)
There will be refreshments after the seminar, followed by a visit to alocal tavern.
For more information, [email protected] or [email protected]
Background
• Early days– Poster at DHR 2005 Lancaster (programme)– CLiP 2006 conference at King's College London– Seminar series launched at ICSL (2006)
• Institute of Classical Studies, London
• Building on what experiences?– Department of Classics research seminars (KCL 2003-4)– Work-in-Progress (WiP) Postgraduate seminar series– Ersatz series (2004)
Background
• Conference panels– Classical Association Annual Conference (UK)
• 2007 Birmingham: Research into people and places• 2007 Birmingham: Interdisciplinary approaches to research and
pedagogy• 2009 Glasgow: Ancient World and e-Science• 2010 Cardiff: Linked data for archaeology and geography• 2011 Durham: Teaching and Publication of Classics in the Internet
Age• 2011 Durham: Ancient Space, Linked Data and Digital Research• 2011 Digital Classicist Training Day
– Generic Web Tools– Papyrological Editor
Background
– Digital Resources in the Humanities 2008 Cambridge• A discipline-specific community of practice and interdisciplinary
methods
– APA/AIA Panel• 2010 Digital research and developments in collaborative work
in Classics
– AHRC Methods Network Expert Seminars (KCL 2006) • Open Source Critical Editions
Development
• Digital Classicist– A network– A central hub to link people and organisations
– A community of users
– Set up by and for practitioners interested in the application of DH methodologies to the study of the ancient world.
Development
• Website (www.digitalclassicist.org)– The Digital Classicist was always conceived of as a
community, a network of users
– Links with other organisations
– Putting out information• Seminars (the voice and focus)
• Conference panels
Development• Wiki (wiki.digitalclassicist.org)
• No pre-set design structure• Grows organically in response to users
• The opportunity for collaboration makes all the difference
• Wiki allows ongoing peer review• More than just the static website. • Focus for a community
• Collaboratively compile, review and comment on digital tools, projects, research questions
• List guides to good practice
Blog
• After an initial period incorporated with the Stoa,to avoid repetition and to keep one central focus
Development
• Seminars– Summer Seminar series ICLS
• 2006• 2007• 2008• 2009• 2010• 2011• 2012
Seminars
• Become central to our activities• Promotes research activity of our members• Allow promotion of Digital Classicist• Raise profile of our speakers• Plug in and use social media
– #digiclass– Stoa consortium
– ICLS
• Changes the focus and become dynamic– Now space as well as time– Audio and presentation files
Seminars 2006
• Leif Isaksen (Southampton): – Network Analysis of Transport Vectors in Roman Spain
• Amy Smith (Reading): – The Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives
• Eleonora Litta (KCL): – Digital Critical Editions of Latin Texts
• Hafed Walda (KCL): – Archaeological mashups in Google Maps: Roman North Africa as a case study
• Notis Toufexis (Cambridge):– XML-based transcriptions of medieval Greek manuscripts
• Juan Garcés (KCL)– Digital editing and collating of Greek Pseudepigraphic texts
• Timothy Hill (Cambridge)– Only Connect? Text, Hypertext and the Commentary Tradition
• Simon Mahony (KCL)– New tools for collaborative research – the Digital Classicist Wiki..
• Ruth Kirkham & John Pybus (Oxford)– Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities
• Willard McCarty (KCL)– Modelling Personification in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Seminars 2007• Richard Beacham (KCL)
– Using computer modelling to investigate relationships• Neel Smith (Holy Cross, MA)
– Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext• Boris Rankov (RHUL)
– 3D-Simulation of Ancient Naval Warfare• Timothy Hill (Cambridge)
– Wiser than the Undeceived? Past Worlds as Virtual Worlds in the Electronic Media• Michael Fulford (Reading)
– Silchester Roman Town: developing virtual research practice• Brian Fuchs (Imperial)
– Lexical Communities: networking morphological resources in the Archimedes Project• Dunstan Lowe (Reading) I
– intangible Cities: 'Authentic' Romes in Recreational Software• Eleanor OKell (Durham) & Cary MacMahon (Glasgow)
– Creating a Generative Learning Object for Classics• Janice Siegel (Hampden-Sydney, VA)
– The New AV Classics Database: a community-annotated resource• Melissa Terras (UCL)
– Can computers ever read ancient texts?• Stuart Dunn (KCL)
– Space as an artefact: understanding past perceptions and uses of space with and without computers
• Charles Crowther (Oxford)– A Virtual Research Environment for Documents and Manuscripts
Seminars 2008• Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford)
– The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services• Brent Seales (University of Kentucky)
– EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials• Dot Porter (University of Kentucky)
– The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool• Bruce Fraser (Cambridge)
– The value and price of information: reflections on e-publishing in the humanities• Andrew Bevan (UCL)
– Computational Approaches to Human and Animal Movement in the Archaeological Record• Frances Foster (KCL)
– A digital presentation of the text of Servius• Ryan Bauman (University of Kentucky)
– Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets • Charlotte Tupman (KCL)
– Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya• Juan Garcés (British Library)
– Digitizing the oldest complete Greek Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus project• Charlotte Roueché (KCL)
– From Stone to Byte: Implications of the XML publication of inscriptions• Ioannis Doukas (KCL)
– Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships• Peter Heslin (Durham)
– Diogenes: Past development and future plans
Seminars 2009• Bart Van Beek (Leuven)
– Onomastics and Name-extraction in Graeco-Egyptian Papyri• Philip Murgatroyd (Birmingham)
– Starting out on the Journey to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling and Mediaeval warfare logistics
• Mark Hedges & Tobias Blanke (KCL)– Linking and Querying Ancient Texts: A multi-database case study with epigraphic corpora
• Marco Büchler & Annette Loos (Leipzig)– Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works
• Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)– Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification
• Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)– Teuchos: An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology
• Christine Pappelau (Berlin)– Roman Spolia in 3D: High Resolution Leica 3D Laser-scanner meets ancient building
structures• Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
– Linking Archaeological Data• Elton Barker (Oxford) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
– Herodotos Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive• Alexandra Trachsel (Hamburg)
– An Online Edition of the Fragments of Demetrios of Skepsis
Seminars 2010• Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
– Reading Between the Lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy’s Geography• Hafed Walda (King’s College London) and Charles Lequesne (RPS Group)
– Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology• Timothy Hill (King’s College London)
– After Prosopography? Data modelling, models of history, and new directions for a scholarly genre• Matteo Romanello (King’s College London)
– Towards a Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References• Mona Hess (University College London)
– 3D Colour Imaging For Cultural Heritage Artefacts• Annemarie La Pensée (National Conservation Centre) and Françoise Rutland (World
Museum Liverpool)– 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• Mike Priddy (King’s College London)
– On-demand Virtual Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities• Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig)
– Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors• Kathryn Piquette (University College London)
– Material Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising qualitative data analysis software
• Linda Spinazzè (Venice)– Musisque Deoque. Developing new features: manuscripts tracing on the net
Seminar 2011• Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther (Oxford)
– Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Inscription Documentation in Museum Collections and the Field: Case studies on ancient Egyptian and Classical material
• David Scott and Mike Jackson (Edinburgh University)– Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR): Aggregating Classical Datasets with Linked Data
• Charlotte Roueché and Charlotte Tupman (King's College London)– Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for charting textual transfer
• Alessandro Vatri (Oxford University)– HdtDep: a treebank and search engine for Greek word order study
• Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, R.C. “Athena”)– Classical Studies facing digital research infrastructures: From practice to requirements
• Timothy Hill (New York University)– Semantics and Semantic Constructs in Cultural Comparison: The Case of Late Antiquity
• Elton Barker (Open University) and Leif Isaksen (Southampton)– Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus
• Sandra Blakely (Emory)– Modeling the mysteries: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of
Samothrace• Marco Büchler (Leipzig)
– Bringing Modern Spell Checking Approaches to Ancient Texts: Automatized Suggestions for Incomplete Words
• Daniel Pett (British Museum)– The Portable Antiquities Scheme: a tool for studying the Ancient landscape of England and Wales
• Valentina Asciutti and Stuart Dunn (King's College London)– Digital diasporas: remaking cultural heritage in cyberspace
Seminar 2012
• Chiara Salvagni (KCL)– Digital Critical Editions of Homer
• Jari Pakkanen (RHUL)– Pattern detection in archaeological data: quantum modelling, Bronze Age Aegean lead weights
and Greek Classical Doric architecture• Angeliki Chrysanthi (Southampton)
– A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites• Alejandro Giacometti, Lindsay MacDonald (UCL) & Alberto Campagnolo (University of
the Arts)– Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging
• Marco Buchler & Gregory Crane (Leipzig)– Historical Text Re-use Detection on Perseus Digital Library
• Charlotte Tupman (KCL)– Digital epigraphy beyond the Classical: creating (inter?)national standards for recording
modern and early modern gravestones• Maggie Robb (KCL)
– Digitising the Prosopography of the Roman Republic• Paolo Monella (Centro Linceo, Roma)
– In the Tower of Babel: modelling primary sources of multi-testimonial textual transmissions
Seminars
• Research papers in their own right• Explore highly collaborative research in this area• Collaboration always been core to Classical Studies• Innovation and creativity in study of Ancient World
• Rigorous scholarship
Development
• Research output (wiki – ongoing peer review)– FAQs– Guides to practice
• Publications (peer review)– Bodard & Mahony eds. (2008) '"Though much is taken, much
abides": Recovering antiquity through innovative digital methodologies', Digital Classicist special issue, Digital Medievalist 4
– Bodard & Mahony eds (2010) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, Ashgate.
– Dunn & Mahony eds (forthcoming) Digital Classicist Supplement: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Wiley-Blackwell
Community?
• Gemeinschaft– Community
– Strong ties
• Gesellschaft– Association– Weak ties
• Oxford English Dictionary (online)– s.v. community: 5B 'a group of people who share the
same interests, pursuits, or occupation …'
• Foundational term in social sciences• Subject for another talk (Ferdinand Tönnies)
Community
• Community of users defined by what we do• Events more than anything else define DC
community– showcase for members research– Venue for discussions– Introductions and inspiration
Community at a distance?
• New technologies– Spatial dimension less important
– Time becomes more so– Symbolic– Mental construct– (seminars give a focus)
• Shared values and interests– Feeling of belonging– Psychological Sense of Community (SCI)
• Common needs and goals• Interaction with rest of community
Funding
• Institutional reputation• Funding models (changes)• ICLS
– Expenses / subvention
• King's – Hosting– Infrastructure support
Funding
• Outreach• Networking• Public engagement• Impact
• Knowledge Transfer• Knowledge Exchange
• Engage wider international community– Social media (Blog / Twitter / Facebook)
Reflection
• Building communities– Community driven– Discussion lists
– Showcase for members
– Sense of ownership
• To flourish– Sense of community
– Sensible management
– Inclusive not exclusive– All are welcome
Reflection
• Sustaining communities (at a distance)– Community = foundational term for social sciences
– Reciprocity (Marcel Mauss)
– Community of users become stakeholders– Value– Focus– Dynamic
Essential
• Quality (in all areas)• Rigorous scholarship• Advance research in both Classics and
Computing • Meaningful to both research agendas• Research must drive forward both agendas
• Institutional support and long term commitment • Build a team
Future
• Seminars• Conferences• Publications BICS• eHumanities Centre Leipzig
• Digital Classicist Germany• Digital Classicist Berlin
– Keynote: Garbriel Bodard 23 October
• One day mini-conference– Respondents from main stream Classics
