Intensive seminar (German: Blockseminar) at the University of Rostock (course no. 74086)
This intensive seminar (Blockseminar, 2 Semesterwochenstunde) offers an introduction to Digital Classics for philology students, and does not require any prior technical knowledge, but just a basic level of digital literacy.
Students will first gain some historical knowledge about Digital Humanities as a discipline, and of Digital Classics as a research area and community of practice. Then, they will be introduced to various digital methods, tools and technologies that can be applied to the core activities of classical philologists (i.e. reading, writing/publishing, collating, editing, translating, annotating).
During the practical sessions (accounting for approx. 30% of the course time) students will get to know the tools available to carry out each of these core activities in a digital environment, as well as the underlying standards and technologies. By doing so, they will develop a solid understanding of the problems related to the digital representation of philological data.
(The course is taught mostly in English, while the use of German in the classroom is possible and welcome, especially during the practical session. Structure of the course: frontal lessons (60-70%) + practical sessions (30-40%). A personal laptop is required for the practical sessions.)
- Digital Humanities, Digital Classics
- markup, markdown, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
- version control with Git and GitHub
- annotations (manual, automatic, semantic)
- 15:00-15:45 Lecture 1
- Digital Humanities and Digital Classics (slides, 1-26)
- exercise: analyze a Latin text of choice with Voyant
- 16:15-16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30-17:15 Lecture 2
- Git, GitHub and MarkDown (slides, 27-35)
- 17:15-18:00 Practical session
- each student forks the course repository on GitHub, edits the files student_expectations.md and student_motivations.md files, then opens a pull request on the main repo
- when all students are done, the Pull Requests are reviewed, accepted and conflicts are resolved
- 18:00-19:00 Time for assigned reading
- 9:00-10:00 Time for assigned reading
- 10:00-10:45 Lecture 3
- Scholarly editing in a digital world (slides)
- 10:45-11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00-11:30 Lecture 4
- Scholarly editing: TEI, digital editions and the Digital Latin Library guidelines (slides)
- 11:30-12:15 Practical session
- markup of a passage of a critical edition using DLL’s TEI guidelines
- 12:15-13:30 Lunch Break
- 13:30-15:00 Morning practical session (continued)
- 15:00-15:15 Coffee break
- 15:15-16:00 Lecture 6
- Annotating in a digital world (pt. 1) (slides)
- 16:00-16:45 Practical session
- Web annotations with Hypothes.is
- Semantic annotations without pointy brackets in Recogito
- 17:00-17:15 Coffee break
- 17:15-18:00 Lecture
- Annotating in a digital world (pt. 2) (slides)
- 13:30-15:00 Lecture 7
- Text mining: Semi-automatic creation of an index locorum in the context of the Epische Bauformen project (pt. 1, slides)
- 15:00-15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30-18:00 Lecture 8
- Text mining: Semi-automatic creation of an index locorum in the context of the Epische Bauformen project (pt. 2, slides)