Spring 2025 Digital Classics

Sunoikisis Digital Classics spring 2025 programme

Organised by Gabriel Bodard (University of London) and Katharine Shields (King's College London).

All meetings on Thursdays at 16:00–17:30 GMT = 17:00–18:30 CET

Programme

1. Thursday, January 16, 2025: Finding free classical texts (Monica Berti, Gabriel Bodard, Katharine Shields)
2. Thursday, January 23, 2025: Preparing texts and data cleaning (Jonathan Blaney, Gabriel Bodard, Katharine Shields)
3. Thursday, January 30, 2025: Working with Egyptian texts (Eliese-Sophia Lincke, Franziska Naether)
4. Thursday, February 6, 2025: Digital editions of inscriptions and papyri (Gabriel Bodard, Marta Fogagnolo)
5. Thursday, February 13, 2025: Working with Wikipedia (Gabriel Bodard, Kate Cook, Richard Nevell, Katharine Shields)
6. Thursday, February 27, 2025: Analysing and visualising texts (Kaspar Beelen, Gabriel Bodard, Megan Bushnell)
7. Thursday, March 6, 2025: Working with Cuneiform texts (Seraina Nett, Émilie Page-Peron, Rune Rattenborg, Katharine Shields)
8. Thursday, March 13, 2025: Text alignment (Megan Bushnell, Chiara Palladino, Farnoosh Shamsian)
9. Thursday, March 20, 2025: Papyrological texts and linguistic research (Marja Vierros, Polina Yordanova)

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
• Digitale Altertumswissenschaften: Thesen und Debatten zu Methoden und Anwendungen (2020). Edited by Chronopoulos, Stylianos, Maier, Felix K. & Novokhatko, Anna. Heidelberg: Propylaeum (Digital Classics Books, 4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.563
• 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. Available: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39396
• Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, edited by Gabriel Bodard & Simon Mahony. Ashgate 2010. Some chapters available from (see comments): http://blog.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/