SunoikisisDC Digital Classics and Byzantine Studies, Summer 2024

Convened by Martina Filosa, Monica Berti, and Gabriel Bodard

Sessions start at 16:00 BST = 17:00 CEST and last up to 90 minutes.

1. Mon, Apr 8, 2024 Free and open primary texts (Monica Berti, Gabriel Bodard, Martina Filosa)
2. Mon, Apr 15, 2024 Text alignment (Megan Bushnell, Chiara Palladino)
3. Mon, Apr 22, 2024 Suda On Line and the Digital Suda projects (Monica Berti, Gabriel Bodard)
4. Mon, Apr 29, 2024 HTR and OCR from papyrus to codex (Maxime Guénette, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, John Pavlopoulos, Paraskevi Platanou)
5. Mon, May 6, 2024 Digital prosopography (James Baillie, Ekaterini Mitsiou)
6. Mon, May 13, 2024 Material context of text-bearing objects (Daria Elagina, Martina Filosa)
7. Mon, May 27, 2024 Text visualisation and Voyant tools. Refer to Sunoikisis Digital Classics Fall 2021, Session 3: Text Analysis with Voyant Tools
8. Mon, Jun 3, 2024 The Etymologika project (Daniel Deckers, Kajetan Dvoracek, Stefano Valente)
9. Mon, Jun 10, 2024 Treebanking and morphosyntactic annotation to study reception of ancient language and text (Gabriel Bodard, Alek Keersmaekers, Marja Vierros)
10. Mon, Jun 17, 2024 Handling of sigillographic data (XML, Machine Learning, Decision Trees) (John McEwan, Alessio Sopracasa)
11. Mon, Jun 24, 2024 Arabic and Georgian sources for Byzantine and Medieval history (Nathan Gibson, Tamara Kalkhitashvili)

Introductory readings

Individual session pages list bibliographies on each topic. For general, introductory readings on digital classics see the long list below (more recent works are likely to be more useful and relevant):

• Can’t Touch This: Digital Approaches to Materiality in Cultural Heritage (2023). Edited by Chiara Palladino, Gabriel Bodard. London: Ubiquity Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.5334/bcv.
• Capturing the Senses: Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies (2023). Edited by Eleanor Betts, Giacomo Landeschi. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer Cham. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23133-9.
• Digital Editions of Historical Fragmentary Texts (2021). Edited by Monica Berti. Digital Classics Books, Band 5. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. Available: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.898
• Linked Ancient World Data: Practical Introductions (2020). Edited by Paul Dilley, Ryan Horne & Sarah Bond. ISAW Papers 20. Available: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/20/
• DATAM: Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean (2020). Edited by Sebastian Heath. Digital Press Books 16. Available: https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb016.
• Digital Classical Philology. Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution (2019). Edited by Monica Berti. Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft 10. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572.
• Digital Classics and Ancient History, edited by Rada Varga. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia 63.2 (2018). Available: http://digihubb.centre.ubbcluj.ro/journal/index.php/digitalia/issue/view/5
• Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline (2018). Edited by Annamaria De Santis and Irene Rossi. De Gruyter. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607208
• Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber (2016). Edited by Gabriel Bodard & Matteo Romanello. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bat
• Digital Approaches and the Ancient World, edited by Gabriel Bodard, Yanne Broux & Ségolène Tarte. BICS 59-2 (2016). Available: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bics.2016.59.issue-2/issuetoc
• Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World, edited by Thomas Elliott, Sebastian Heath & John Muccigrosso. ISAW Papers 7 (2014). Available: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/
• The Digital Classicist 2013, edited by Stuart Dunn & Simon Mahony. BICS Supplement 122. Some chapters available from (see comments): http://blog.stoa.org/archives/1937
• Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, edited by Gabriel Bodard & Simon Mahony. Ashgate 2010. Some chapters available from (see comments): http://www.stoa.org/archives/1136
• Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure, edited by Gregory Crane & Melissa Terras. Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009). Available: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/
• "Though much is taken, much abides": Recovering antiquity through innovative digital methodologies, edited by Gabriel Bodard & Simon Mahony, Digital Medievalist 4 (2008). Available: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/4/volume/4/issue/0/