Category Archives: Tools

Review of Ugarit Alignment Tool

Textual Alignment of Res Gestae: Translation in Historical Languages by Sisi Xie Commenting on the Ugarit alignment tool: https://ugarit.ialigner.com/ 1. Introduction Res Gestae Divi Augusti (RG), written by Augustus during his lifetime, is a direct reflection of the posthumous image … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist Wiki editing sprints

The Institute of Classical Studies now hosts the Digital Classicist Wiki, a community-edited database of information, questions and commentary on projects, tools, methods and other resources relating to the digital or quantitative study of the ancient world. The site includes … Continue reading

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Linked Pasts 6 (London, Dec 2020) call for activities

Linked Pasts 6 December 2–16, 2020 University of London and British Library The annual Linked Pasts conference, which has previously been held at KCL, Madrid, Stanford, Mainz and Bordeaux, brings together scholars, heritage professionals and other practitioners with an interest … Continue reading

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Report: Digital Palaeography panel (at ICP, Lecce, July 2019)

On the morning on Wednesday, July 31st 2019, there was a two-hour session of the International Congress of Papyrology, in Lecce, Italy, on Digital Palaeography. This session was convened by Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Klaas Bentein and myself, although I only attended … Continue reading

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Using the Classical Language Toolkit (Graz, November 6, 2019)

Posted on behalf of Sarah Lang: I would like to invite you to participate in the workshop “Using the Classical Language Toolkit” at Centre for Information Modelling (ZIM) in Graz on the 6th of November 2019. Find the German and … Continue reading

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Digital Classicist Wiki editing sprints

The regular Digital Classicist Wiki editing sprints that we used to run have stalled in the last year or so, but we will be restarting them as of next month. For now, sprints will run on the first Tuesday of … Continue reading

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Sunoikisis Digital History and Archaeology, Fall 2016

The fall programme of the Sunoikisis Digital Classics course has just started, with online sessions via YouTube on Thursdays at 16h00 UK/11h00 New York. This semester, focussed on objects, space and heritage data, rus in parallel with courses taught at … Continue reading

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The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) is online

The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) is a project directed by Monica Berti at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig for producing the digital version of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum … Continue reading

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Harpokration Online

Posted for Joshua Sosin: About eight months ago we announced a lightweight tool to support collaborative translation of Harpokration—we called it ‘Harpokration On Line.’ See: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/dcthree/2015/05/26/harpokration-on-line. Well, we took our time (Mack finished a dissertation, John made serious progress on his, … Continue reading

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BL Labs competition 2016

Forwarded for Mahendra Mahey: It’s that time of year again and we are proud to announce the annual BL Labs Competition and BL Labs Awards, celebrating the use of the British Library’s digital collections, are open for 2016! The BL … Continue reading

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Casaubon-Kaibel reference converter for the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis

The Casaubon-Kaibel reference converter is a tool for finding concordances between the numerations used in the two editions of the 15 books of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis by Isaac Casaubon and Georg Kaibel. By inserting at least one of the … Continue reading

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Treebanking Ancient Greek in High School: what my students learned, what I learned

Treebanking methodology has proven to be successful in the linguistic analysis of ancient Greek and Latin texts, and it has aroused a continuously increasing interest over the last few years. It is certainly one of the most exciting innovations in … Continue reading

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Call for Participation: Text reuse workshop at DH Estonia 2015

Text Reuse Workshop at DH Estonia 2015 21 October 2015 Hosted by the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. Organised by: Dr. Marco Büchler, Emily Franzini, Greta Franzini and Maria Moritz (eTRAP Early Career Research Group). The Conference on translingual and … Continue reading

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Linked Data for the Humanities Workshop in Oxford

Via Terhi Nurmikko: Linked Data for the Humanities Workshop: A semantic web of scholarly data Part of the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School, held 20th – 24th July 2015. Book your place via http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/linkeddata.html Come and learn from experts and … Continue reading

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Sunoikisis DC Planning Seminar, Leipzig, February 16-18

Sunoikisis is a successful national consortium of Classics programs developed by the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. The goal is to extend Sunoikisis to a global audience and contribute to it with an international consortium of Digital Classics programs (Sunoikisis … Continue reading

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