Digital Classicist Seminar Series and Book Launch

Fridays at 16:30
Senate House - Room 243

June 3 Gregory Crane (Leipzig and Tufts)
Philological Education and Citizenship in the 21st Century

June 10 Matteo Romanello (Lausanne and DAI)
Of People, Places and References: Extracting information from Classics publications

18:00 Launch event for Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber
2nd floor foyer.

June 17 Eleanor Robson (University College London)
From the ground to the cloud: digital edition of freshly excavated cuneiform tablets on Oracc

June 24 Stuart Dunn (King’s College London)
Reading text with GIS: Different digital lenses for Ancient World Geography

July 1 Valeria Vitale (King’s College London)
The use and abuse of 3D visualisation in the study of the Ancient World

July 8 Chiara Palladino (Leipzig and Bari)
Annotating geospatial patterns in ancient texts: problems and strategies

July 15 No seminar

July 22 Stelios Chronopoulos (Freiburg)
New Life into Old Courses? Using Digital Tools in Reading and Prose Composition Classes

July 29 Silke Vanbeselaere (KU Leuven)
Exploring ancient sources with data visualisation

Abstracts available here.

Seminars will be screencast on YouTube. You can also follow and discuss the seminars on Twitter using the hashtag #DigiClass.

Digital Classicist Podcasts

From the Digital Classicists at King's College London

"Dear all,

This summer's Digital Classicist/Institute for Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar series is now about half-way through,

and the first several audio recordings of the proceedings are now available as part of the Digital Classicist Podcast.
You can find a list of all seminars in this series, along with links for those that have audio and/or presentations uploaded, at:

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html

Or you can subscribe to the podcast feed itself by pointing your RSS aggregator, iTunes subscription, aut sim., at:

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/seminar.xml

We should welcome ideas for further events to add to this podcast series, and/or partnerships to podcast the results of seminar

series of interest to Digital Classicists in the future.

regards
Simon and Gabriel"

Digital Classicist Seminars

Tomorrow sees the third in the Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminars. The seminar,(20th June) will be held in Stewart House, room B3 at 16:30 and will be given by Dot Porter (University of Kentucky), The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool (abstract).

All are welcome to attend, and after attending myself last week's fascinating talk on digital scanning, I am sure readers will find them very interesting.

The full list of seminars follows (from the Digital Classicist website):

"Summer 2008

Fridays at 16:30 in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

(June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in Stewart House, room B3)

(June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street)


6 June
NG16 Elaine Matthews and Sebastian Rahtz (Oxford) The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and classical web services (abstract) (pdf)
13 June
NG16 Brent Seales (University of Kentucky) EDUCE: Non-invasive scanning for classical materials (abstract)
20 June
STB3 Dot Porter (University of Kentucky) The Son of Suda On Line: a next generation collaborative editing tool (abstract)
27 June
UCL Chadwick 218 Bruce Fraser (Cambridge) The value and price of information: reflections on e-publishing in the humanities (abstract)
4 July
STB3 Andrew Bevan (UCL) Computational Approaches to Human and Animal Movement in the Archaeological Record
11 July
STB3 Frances Foster (KCL) A digital presentation of the text of Servius
18 July
STB3 Ryan Bauman (University of Kentucky) Towards the Digital Squeeze: 3-D imaging of inscriptions and curse tablets
25 July
NG16 Charlotte Tupman (KCL) Markup of the epigraphy and archaeology of Roman Libya
1 Aug
NG16 Juan Garcés (British Library) Digitizing the oldest complete Greek Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus Project
8 Aug
NG16 Charlotte Roueché (KCL) From Stone to Byte
15 Aug
NG16 Ioannis Doukas (KCL) Towards a digital publication for the Homeric Catalogue of Ships
22 Aug
NG16 Peter Heslin (Durham) Diogenes: past development and future plans

We are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce their work. The focus of this seminar series is the interdisciplinary and collaborative work that results at the interface of expertise in Classics or Archaeology and Computer Science.

The seminars will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or Simon.Mahony@kcl.ac.uk, or visit the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2008.html"

Jacoby Online

The Library is currently trialling online access to Jacoby Online consisting of both 'Brill's New Jacoby' and 'Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Parts I-III'.

According to the publishers, the New Jacoby contains:

• the online edition of the original three parts of Felix Jacoby’s monumental FGrHist giving instant and fully searchable access to the equivalent of more than 8,000 pages of print.
• new authors not in the original FGrHist;
• new readings of many of Jacoby’s Greek texts;
• new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars;
• for the first time commentary on the texts that Jacoby did not complete before his death;
• en face English translations of the Greek fragments and testimonia;
• an encyclopedia-style biography of the ancient author;
• and a regularly updated bibliography.

We have a CD-ROM edition of Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker from 2006. However, this new edition is updated frequently. BNJ will publish online 60 authors every 6 months, and every 2 years there will be a revision of those published to date. So readers may find this an important resource. Jacoby Online will be available from any of the computers in the computer-room - please book at the front desk - and any feedback is appreciated.

Full information is available from the home page of the BNJ: http://www.brillsnewjacoby.com/online.html

New electronic resource on Pompeii

A fantastic new resource for those researching Pompeii is now available at the Library.

'The World of Pompeii' edited by John J. Dobbins & Peter W. Foss contains essays on Pompeii, all by renowned Classicists and also contains a CD-ROM of very detailed maps of the sites at Pompeii and Herculaneum. These maps have been added to our computers - please ask one of our staff for advice on how to use this very useful program.

Publisher's website on the book:

http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?curTab=CONTENTS&id=&parent_id=&sku=&isbn=9780415173247&pc=