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OEDUc: Disambiguating EDH person RDF working group

One of the working groups at the Open Epigraphic Data Unconference (OEDUc) meeting in London (May 15, 2017) focussed on disambiguating EDH person RDF. Since the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) has made all of its data available to download in … Continue reading

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OEDUc: EDH and Pelagios location disambiguation Working Group

From the beginning of the un-conference, an interest in linked open geodata seemed to be shared by a number of participants. Moreover, an attention towards gazetteers and alignment appeared among the desiderata for the event, expressed by the EDH developers. … Continue reading

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OEDUc: recommendations for EDH person-records in SNAP RDF

At the first meeting of the Open Epigraphic Data Unconference (OEDUc) in London in May 2017, one of the working groups that met in the afternoon (and claim to have completed our brief, so do not propose to meet again) … Continue reading

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Global Philology Workshop Week in Leipzig

Within the framework of the BMBF funded Global Philology Planning Project, we would like to announce three workshops that will be taking place at the University of Leipzig in the next two weeks: Linguistic Annotation and Philology Workshop, July 6-7, 2017 Florilegia: … Continue reading

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Pleiades sprint on Pompeian buildings

Monday the 26th of June, from 15 to 17 BST, Pleiades organises an editing sprint to create additional URIs for Pompeian buildings, preferably looking at those located in Regio I, Insula 8. Participants will meet remotely on the Pleiades IRC … Continue reading

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OEDUc: EDH and Pelagios NER working group

Participants:  Orla Murphy, Sarah Middle, Simona Stoyanova, Núria Garcia Casacuberta Report: https://github.com/EpiDoc/OEDUc/wiki/EDH-and-Pelagios-NER The EDH and Pelagios NER working group was part of the Open Epigraphic Data Unconference held on 15 May 2017. Our aim was to use Named Entity Recognition … Continue reading

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Open Epigraphic Data Unconference report

Last month, a dozen or so scholars met in London (and were joined by a similar number via remote video-conference) to discuss and work on the open data produced by the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. (See call and description.) Over the … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London seminar 2017 programme

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Fridays at 16:30 in room 234* Jun 2 Sarah Middle (Open University) Linked Data and Ancient World Research: studying past projects from a user perspective Jun 9 Donald Sturgeon … Continue reading

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Open Epigraphic Data Unconference, London, May 15, 2017

Open Epigraphic Data Unconference 10:00–17:00, May 15, 2017, Institute of Classical Studies This one-day workshop, or “unconference,” brings together scholars, historians and data scientists with a shared interest in classical epigraphic data. The event involves no speakers or set programme … Continue reading

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Historia Ludens: Conference on History and Gaming, 19 May 2017

Posted on behalf of Alexander von Lünen (to whom queries should be addressed): University of Huddersfield 19 May 2017 This conference follows up on the workshop “Playing with History” that has been held in November 2015 in Huddersfield. Gaming and … Continue reading

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CFP: Cyborg Classics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Forwarded on behalf of Silvie Kilgallon (to whom enqueries should be addressed): We are pleased to announce a one-day symposium, sponsored by BIRTHA (The Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts) to be held at the University of … Continue reading

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CFP: Digital Textual Editions and Corpora

Digital Classics Association Call for papers for the January 4-7, 2018 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Boston “Digital Textual Editions and Corpora” Organizer: Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY ncoffee@buffalo.edu The discovery, editing, and publication of classical … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist London 2017 CFP

The Digital Classicist London seminar invites proposals with a focus on the needs of users/readers, for the summer 2017 season, which will run on Friday afternoons in June and July in the Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London. We … Continue reading

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Classical Philology Goes Digital, University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017

Classical Philology Goes Digital. Working on Textual Phenomena of Ancient Texts University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017 Organization: Karen Blaschka (Universität Potsdam) and Monica Berti (Universität Leipzig) Funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung Thursday, February 16, 2017 9.00 Welcome Address by … Continue reading

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EpiDoc training workshop, London, April 2017

We invite applications to participate in a training workshop on digital editing of papyrological and epigraphic texts, at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, April 3–7, 2017. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard and Lucia Vannini (ICS) and … Continue reading

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