Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement

Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement
Gabriel Bodard, Matteo Romanello (eds.)

 

Edited by organisers of “Digital Classicist” seminars in London and Berlin, this volume explores the impact of computational approaches to the study of antiquity on audiences other than the scholars who conventionally publish it. In addition to colleagues in classics and digital humanities, the eleven chapters herein concern and are addressed to students, heritage professionals and “citizen scientists”.

Each chapter is a scholarly contribution, presenting research questions in the classics, digital humanities or, in many cases, both. They are all also examples of work within one of the most important areas of academia today: scholarly research and outputs that engage with collaborators and audiences not only including our colleagues, but also students, academics in different fields including the hard sciences, professionals and the broader public. Collaboration and scholarly interaction, particularly with better-funded and more technically advanced disciplines, is essential to digital humanities and perhaps even more so to digital classics. The international perspectives on these issues are especially valuable in an increasingly connected, institutionally and administratively diverse world.

This book addresses the broad range of issues scholars and practitioners face in engaging with students, professionals and the public, in accessible and valuable chapters from authors of many backgrounds and areas of expertise, including language and linguistics, history, archaeology and architecture. This collection will be of interest to teachers, scientists, cultural heritage professionals, linguists and enthusiasts of history and antiquity.

1. Learning By Doing: Learning to Implement the TEI Guidelines Through Digital Classics Publication

2. Open Education and Open Educational Resources for the Teaching of Classics in the UK

3. Epigraphers and Encoders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Digital Epigraphy

4. An Open Tutorial for Beginning Ancient Greek

5. The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment

6. Of Features and Models: A Reflexive Account of Interdisciplinarity across Image Processing, Papyrology, and Trauma Surgery

7. Cultural Heritage Destruction: Experiments with Parchment and Multispectral Imaging

8. Transparent, Multivocal, Cross-disciplinary: The Use of Linked Open Data and a Community-developed RDF Ontology to Document and Enrich 3D Visualisation for Cultural Heritage

9. The Perseids Platform: Scholarship for all!

10. Engaging Greek: Ancient Lives

11. Ancient Inscriptions between Citizens and Scholars: The Double Soul of the EAGLE Project

Additional Information Published on 28 Apr 2016

Language
English

Pages: 234

ISBN

EPUB	978-1-909188-61-7
Hardback	978-1-909188-46-4
Mobi	978-1-909188-62-4
Paperback	978-1-909188-48-8
PDF	978-1-909188-47-1

DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat

MARC Record
The MARC Record for this book will be available shortly.

antiquist: a heritage computing community

antiquist: a heritage computing community

About

Welcome to Antiquist.
We are an online community of people working with computing in the heritage sector.
Antiquist is primarily a communication network - a way for us all to talk, argue, experiment, share ideas, and solve common problems.

Who is Antiquist?

Antiquist members include archaeologists, museum professionals, historians, and other interested people.

How do we communicate?

We communicate primarily via a Google Groups email list. We also have a wiki, a blog, and some server space to try out new ideas and build new resources.
We also meet from time to time at events known as ArchCamp. The format of these meetings is open, allowing for demonstrations, discussion, and practical sessions.

Joining

If you’d like to join the conversation, head over to the Antiquist Google Group to sign up. You don’t need to work in the heritage sector, just a healthy interest in computing and heritage, and the will to get involved.

Online Conference: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology

Update (3 March 2015):
Video recordings of the conference presentations are now available for you to watch at your convenience 

Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology

On Feb 27-28, 2015, this conference is being live streamed! Please click the following link to follow along at home: www.wit.edu/livestream

FINAL PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE: Mobilizing the Past Final Program (PDF)

Organizers: Erin Walcek Averett (Creighton University), Derek Counts (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Jody Gordon (Wentworth Institute of Technology), and Michael K. Toumazou (Davidson College)

This two-day, NEH-sponsored workshop brings together pioneers in archaeology and computing to discuss the use, creation, and implementation of mobile tablet technology to advance digital archaeology, i.e., fully digital recording systems to create born-digital data in the field. Session themes are aimed at facilitating presentation, demonstration, and discussion on how archaeologists around the world use tablets or other digital tools in the field and lab and how best practices can be implemented across projects. The workshop highlights the advantages and future of mobile computing and its challenges and limitations. The workshop consists of formal paper sessions and opportunities for informal discussion of the issues and themes at moderated discussions, demonstrations, round tables, and speaker meals. The workshop’s goal is to synthesize current practices and establish a blueprint for creating best practices and moving forward with mobile tablets in archaeology.

Video: Word, Space, Time: Digital Prespectives on the Classical World. An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association

Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on the Classical World. An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Digital Classics Association

The inaugural conference of the Digital Classics Association was held April 5-6, 2013 at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. It featured lectures, posters, and workshops on a range of digital approaches to the classical world. 

*** Video of the conference presentations is now posted on the Tesserae Youtube channel. ***

Abstracts, slides, and posters for some of the presentations are available through the conference program. Photos of the event are available in the photo gallery. Appreciations of the conference can be found on the blogs of Geoffrey Rockwell and Christopher Francese.

Those interested in continuing the conversation can look forward to the DCA workshop session at the January 2014 APA / AIA meetings in Chicago.