Author Archives: Gabriel Bodard

Digital Classicist London 2012: Call for Papers

The annual Digital Classicist London seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2012. We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as from established researchers … Continue reading →

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Working with Text in a Digital Age, RFP

Tufts University invites applications to “Working with Text in a Digital Age”, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines traditional topics such as TEI Markup with training in methods from … Continue reading →

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Open Book Publishers: Cicero

The Open Access academic publishing house Open Book Publishers is about to publish, on November 18th, their first Classics title, Ingo Gildenhard’s edition of Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86. This title, as all OBP books, will soon thereafter be available free … Continue reading →

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TILE 1.0 released

Those who have been waiting impatiently for the first stable release of the Text Image Linking Environment (TILE) toolkit need wait no longer: the full program can be downloaded from: <https://mith.umd.edu/tile/>. From that site: The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Training Workshop

EpiDoc Training Workshop 5-8 September 2011 Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London An EpiDoc training workshop will be offered by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute of Classical Studies in September this year. The … Continue reading →

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Workshop on Digital Tools in Papyrology

International Workshop on Digital Tools in Papyrology, Vienna. July 18-23, 2011 This workshop, organized jointly by the Austrian National Library, the Austrian Academy of Science and Vienna University, will provide an introduction to the most important digital tools in papyrology. … Continue reading →

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Institute of Classical Studies Digital seminars 2011

The programme for the summer 2011 Institute of Classical Studies digital seminars has been released. Fridays at 16:30 in Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU June 3: Kathryn Piquette and Charles Crowther (Oxford), Developing a Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) … Continue reading →

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Linking Open Data: the Pelagios Ontology Workshop

(To register to attend this workshop, please visit https://pelagios.eventbrite.com) The Pelagios workshop is an open forum for discussing the issues associated with and the infrastructure required for developing methods of linking open data (LOD), specifically geodata. There will be a … Continue reading →

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BMCR review of Berti/Costa

In BMCR 2011-02-24 last week, Alexandra Trachsel reviews: Monica Berti, Virgilio Costa, La Biblioteca di Alessandria: storia di un paradiso perduto. Ricerche di filologia, letteratura e storia 10. Roma: Edizioni Tored, 2010. Pp. xvi, 279. ISBN 9788888617343. €30.00 (pb). Of … Continue reading →

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PhD Studentship: Digital Resource of Palaeography

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is pleased to announce a PhD studentship in digital palaeography funded by a European Research Council project, Digital Resource of Palaeography. The studentship is to be held in the CCH … Continue reading →

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Cultural Heritage Imaging workshop

You are warmly invited to attend “Digital Transformations: New developments in cultural heritage imaging” a workshop on digital imaging to be held at the University of Oxford on Friday, 25 February 2011. The workshop will focus on documentary evidence, from … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist Seminar 2011, CFP

Call for Papers The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars in Summer 2011, on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. Themes could include, but are by no … Continue reading →

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Audio-Visual Archaeology seminars

The following seminar series will be held on behalf of the Centre for Audio-Visual Studies and Practice in Archaeology at UCL Institute of Archaeology. All welcome to attend, and drinks follow each seminar. We look forward to seeing you there. … Continue reading →

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Εἰκονοποιία proceedings online

I’m delighted to see that the proceedings of last month’s conference on Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage are now online as an open access PDF. Download from: https://www.eikonopoiia.org/files/Eikonopoiia-2010-Proceedings.pdf There was an impressive line-up at this important conference, and I … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Citation Impact

A recent study published in the Public Library of Science has tested the relationship between Open Access self-archiving of peer-reviewed articles and improved citation impact. See: Gargouri Y et al. ‘Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher … Continue reading →

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