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

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.

1. Learning By Doing: Learning to Implement the TEI Guidelines Through Digital Classics Publication

2. Open Education and Open Educational Resources for the Teaching of Classics in the UK

3. Epigraphers and Encoders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Digital Epigraphy

4. An Open Tutorial for Beginning Ancient Greek

5. The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment

6. Of Features and Models: A Reflexive Account of Interdisciplinarity across Image Processing, Papyrology, and Trauma Surgery

7. Cultural Heritage Destruction: Experiments with Parchment and Multispectral Imaging

8. Transparent, Multivocal, Cross-disciplinary: The Use of Linked Open Data and a Community-developed RDF Ontology to Document and Enrich 3D Visualisation for Cultural Heritage

9. The Perseids Platform: Scholarship for all!

10. Engaging Greek: Ancient Lives

11. Ancient Inscriptions between Citizens and Scholars: The Double Soul of the EAGLE Project

Additional InformationPublished on 28 Apr 2016

Language
English

Pages: 234

ISBN

EPUB	978-1-909188-61-7
Hardback	978-1-909188-46-4
Mobi	978-1-909188-62-4
Paperback	978-1-909188-48-8
PDF	978-1-909188-47-1

DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat

MARC Record
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