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

Gabriel Bodard · Matteo Romanello

Apr 2016 · Ubiquity Press

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Gabriel Bodard ([e-mail]) is Reader in Digital Classics at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. After a PhD in Classics, he worked for nearly fifteen years in Digital Humanities, where he specialised in text encoding, digital editing, and linked open data for ancient texts and objects. He has contributed to several online corpora of inscriptions and papyri, is one of the lead authors of the EpiDoc Guidelines for XML encoding of ancient source texts, and is the principal investigator of the Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies project.

Matteo Romanello ([e-mail]) is a post-doctoral researcher at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He recently completed a PhD in Digital Humanities Research at King’s College London under the supervision of Willard McCarty. His experience and research interests include the automatic extraction and analysis of bibliographic references from large corpora of publications, and issues of semantic interoperability and usability within digital research infrastructure projects.