January 25, 2012
3D Reconstruction of Troy
The University of Cincinnati hosts an interesting site on Troy.
It has been created in collaboration with the Troja-Projekt at the University of Tübingen and the CERHAS of the University of Cincinnati. You find there a wealth of material on the current state of research about Troy, with historical timelines, information about the Trojan myths and tables explaining the structure of the Iliad within the Trojan cycle.
Among the many maps you find there, you may also come across some 3D reconstructions. They represent either views on parts of the city or show the aspect the city may have had during the different periods in short films.
November 6, 2011
Two Interesting Venues
Here again a quick link to two interesting venues for digital classicists.
1) the seminars “Édition savante et humanités numériques” organised at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. The seminars can be followed on Philologie à venir
2) a series of round tables organized by the Laboratory for Critical Text Editing organised by LECTIO at the University of Leuven.
October 2, 2011
TEI Meeting in Würzburg
Two papers seem particularly interesting for the issues of fragments.
In the session “Encoding”:
The TEI encoding of textual fragments: dangerous wager or efficient stratagem? (Emmanuelle Morlock-Gerstenkorn)
In the session “Digital Editions (2)”:
The Critical Step in Open Content Greek: Towards a Digital Edition of Athenaeus (Matteo Romanello, Aurélien Berra)
September 21, 2011
Homer’s Trojan Theater
In her new book on the Iliad, Prof. Strauss Clay’s emphasizes the visual aspect of the narration and shows in an extremely convincing way that the spatial representation of the events happening during the battles described in book 12 to 17 is not only coherent but also an important part of the narrator’s performance-strategies.
In order to present the results of her close-reading she uses digital tools and presents her visual analysis on a website (Homer’s Trojan Theater). This is a interesting and promising way of combining a more traditional approach with the new possibilities a digital handling may provide.
I encountered a similar approach, combining more traditional methods with newer digital ones, while attending the conference in Lausanne this summer (see below: Lausanne: From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era). Prof. Bourqui presented a new project on the French playwright Molière. For the new edition of the complete works of Molière, the prestigious Pléiade-edition decided to combine the traditional book-form with a website where additional information could be found (Molière21).
July 21, 2011
TILE
I have heart about the idea of creating a tool with which it would be possible to mark passage of a text on an image when I attended the TEI@20 Meeting in Maryland in 2007. Now I just received an e-mail which announces the release of such a tool.
Here the link:
July 9, 2011
Lausanne: From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era
This Summer the venue about digital editions will be happening in Lausanne. The programme shows many interesting aspects on this topic and I am looking forward to meet this international gathering of people.
Tuesday 23rd August, 14h-18h45, plenary session (Anthropole 2024)
14h : Ouverture du colloque par Philippe Moreillon, vice-recteur recherche de l’Unil
14h15-18h45 – Lectures et littératies : histoire et représentations (présidence : François Vallotton)
14h15-15h15 – Claire Clivaz (Unil) : “L’ère d’après : lire la culture digitale depuis l’Antiquité”.
15h15-16h15 – Christian Vandendorpe (Ottawa) : “Mutations de la lecture dans un monde numérique”.
16h15-16h45 : Pause
16h45-17h45 – Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL) : “Le devenir-machinique du livre”.
17h45-18h45 – Philippe Kaenel (Unil, CH) : “D’une reproductibilité à l’autre. L’oeuvre de Gustave Doré (1832-1883), entre deux tournants”.
Soirée libre
Wednesday 24th August 2011, 9h-13h30, plenary session (Anthropole 2024)
Des manuscrits antiques à l’édition digitale (présidence : C. Clivaz)
9h-10h – Holt Parker (Cincinnati) : “What Is it that Philologists Do Exactly ?”.
10h-11h – François Bovon (Harvard) : “Face aux manuscrits bibliques, hagiographiques et apocryphes”.
11h-11h30 : Pause
11h30-12h30 – Leonard Muellner et Mary Ebbott (Boston) : “Multitextual Reading and the Future of the Homer Multitext”.
12h30-13h30 – David Parker (Birmingham) : “Digitisation : the Contribution of New Testament Research”.
13h30-15h : Repas
Wednesday 24th August 2011, 15h-18h: parallel sessions
1. “Culture écrite et technologies numériques dans la recherche en lettres” (Prés. J. Meizoz, salle 2024
15h-15h40 – Rudolf Mahrer (Unil) : “Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz à l’heure digitale”.
15h45-16h25 – Elizea Deac (Unige/Roumanie) : “From Paper to Web Constellations – Between Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés and Stephanie Strickland’s V : Vniverse”.
16h30-17h10 – Alberto Roncaccia (Unil) : “Interrogation Programme and Supersenses Extraction”.
2. “Clio Digital” (Prés. F. Vallotton, salle 2064)
15h-15h40 – Sandrine Baume (Unil) : “La transparence. Les envers et revers d’une vertu publique”.
15h45-16h25 – François Rosset et l’école doctorale des Lumières.
16h30 – 17h10 – Elena Cantarell Barella (Université de Barcelone) : “ARQUIBANC : les archives privées catalanes online. Récupération, préservation et diffusion digitale de documents conservés en mains privées”.
17h15-18h – Luis Pablo Núñez (Université de Madrid) : “L’impact de l’ère digitale sur les dictionnaires et encyclopédies”.
3. “Quelle édition digitale voulons-nous pour le Nouveau Testament ?” (Prés. C. Clivaz, salle 2120)
15h-15h40 – Ulrich Schmid (INTF Münster, DE) : “How Can We Imagine an Innovative Digital Edition for the New Testament ?”.
15h45-16h25 - Holger Strutwolf (INTF Münster, DE) : “Die Editio Critica Maior als Beispiel für eine ‘digitale Philologie’”.
16h30-17h10 - Common discussion on the Online Greek NT.
17h15-18h – Thomas Naef (Unil) : Présentation de la bibliographie NTTC sur Bibil.
4. “Lectures et littératies dans l’Antiquité” (Prés. D. Bouvier, salle 5033)
15h-15h40 – Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Francesco Mambrini & J. Matthew Harrington (Tufts University, Boston – Perseus Project) : “Toward a Digital Editio Princeps : Using Digital Technologies to Create a More Complete Scholarly Edition in the Classics”.
15h45-16h25 – Alexandra Trachsel (Université de Hambourg) : “Collecting Fragments Today : What Status Will Have a Fragment in the Era of Digital Philology?”.
16h30-17h10 – Mathilde Cambron-Goulet (Université de Montréal) : “Les pratiques de la lecture et les philosophes grecs”.
17h15-18h – Floris Bernard (Université de Gand) : “A Database of Poetic Paratexts in Byzantine Manuscripts: At the Threshold between text and context”.
5. “Manuscrits et digitalisation” (Prés. J.-D. Kaestli, salle 5021)
15h-15h40 – Patrick Andrist (Unil) : “Petites hérésies et originalités d’une base de donnée ordinaire : le laboratoire électronique pour l’étude des ‘manuscrits apocryphes’”.
15h45-16h25 - Eric Crégheur (Université de Laval, Québec) : “La nouvelle édition des Livres de Iéou du codex Bruce (Oxford, MS Bruce 96) : défis, limites et solutions à l’ère numérique”.
16h30-17h10 – Ahmad-Montaser Awal, Véronique Eglin & Frank Lebourgeois (LIRIS – INSA, Lyon) : “Computert Assisted Transcription of Historical Arabic Documents”.
Soirée libre
Thursday 25th August 2011, 8h30-13h, plenary session (Anthropole 2024)
Lectures et littératies à l’ère digitale (Présidence J. Meizoz)
8h30-9h30 - David Bouvier (Unil) : “Le livre comme objet révolutionnaire dans la Grèce de Platon”
9h30-10h30 - David Hamidovic (Université d’Angers) : “A la recherche du texte perdu : de l’édition électronique à l’édition digitale des manuscrits de la Mer morte”.
10h30-11h : Pause
11h-12h – Peter Haber (Bâle) : “Auf dem Weg zu einer digitalen Geschichtswissenschaft? Zur aktuellen Methodik und Arbeitsweise eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Faches”
12h-13h – Jean-Yves Mollier (Versailles) : “Lire, une pratique constamment remise en cause”.
13h-14h30 : Repas
Jeudi 25 août 2011, 14h30-17h30 : parallel sessions
1. “Lectures et littératies dans la littérature chrétienne ancienne” (Prés. C. Clivaz, salle 2024)
14h30-15h10 - Giovanni Bazzana (Harvard, USA) : “Reading Apocalyptic Literature in Egypt. Manuscripts and Social Function of a Literary Genre”.
15h15-15h55 - Thomas J. Kraus (Chercheur indépendant) : “Illiteracy – Conclusions from the Papyri and Other Objects from the Greco-Roman World”.
16h-16h40 - Joseph Verheyden (Leuven, BE) : “Read, Write, and Correct. Ancient Correctors of Biblical Manuscripts at Work”.
16h45-17h30 – Benjamin Bertho (Unil) : “Cultures écrites et orales chez Théophile d’Antioche”.
2. “Histoire matérielle des cultures manuscrites” (Prés. F. Vallotton, salle 2064)
14h30-15h10 – Malte Rehbein (Université de Würzburg) : “Visualising Textuality – New Interfaces to Historical Texts”.
15h15-15h55 – Fabienne Henryot (Unil) : “Croire, savoir, se souvenir. Typologie des gestes de l’écrit dans l’univers régulier à l’époque moderne”.
16h-16h40 – Lydie Brancato (Unige) : “La Bible hébraïque, la Bible grecque et l’AT de la Vulgate Sixto-Clémentine 81592) : si c’était une histoire de canons, mais aussi de supports matériels ?”
16h45-17h30 - Nelleke Moser (Université d’Amsterdam) : “Textual Malleability in Multi-modal Media : A diachronic Approach”.
3. “Humanities and Computing” (Prés. F. Bavaud, salle 2120)
14h30-15h10 - Lukas Rosenthaler (Université de Bâle) : “Virtual Research Environments – A New Approach for Dealing with Digitized Sources in Research in Arts and Humanities”.
15h15-15h55 - Enrico Natale (Infoclio, Berne) : “Le projet infoclio.ch entre utopies informationnelles et reconfigurations institutionnelles”.
16h-16h40 – Christelle Cocco (IMM, Unil) : “Catégorisation automatique de propositions textuelles en types de discours”.
16h45-17h30 – Aris Xanthos (unil) : “Stylistic Cues for Texte Genre Detection”.
4. “Nouveau Testament et littératies” (Prés. J.-D- Kaestli, salle 5033)
14h30-15h10 – Simon Butticaz (Unil) : “‘Voyez avec quelles grosses lettres je vous écris de ma propre main’ (Ga 6, 11). Les lettres de Paul entre oralité, scribalité et écriture.”
15h15-15h55 – Pierre de Salis (Unil) : “Littératie et praxis épistolaire – le cas de l’apôtre Paul”.
16h-16h40 – Sara Schulthess (Unil) : “Les manuscrits du Nouveau Testament, la langue arabe et le digital : l’émergence d’un discours académique hybride”.
16h45-17h30 – Corinne Egasse (Unil) : “Le papyrus Oxyrhynque 840 : problèmes textuels et thématique des eaux purifiantes”.
5. “Le 17ème siècle et l’ère digitale” (Prés. M. Hennard Dutheil, salle 5021)
14h30-15h10 – Claude Bourquin (Unifr) : “Internet et l’effet de sérendipité : la philologie à l’ère de l’affolement heuristique”.
15h15-15h55 – Kirsten Stirling (Unil) : “‘Magic in the Web of it’ : Facsimile and Full-text in Internet Editions of Shakespeare”.
16h-16h40 – Tom Salyers (UK) : “‘Where Lies Your Text?’ : Authorship Attribution and Elizabethan Drama”.
16h45-17h30 – Radu Suciu (Paris VII) : “Les fables de la mélancolie. Projet de publication en ligne avec Omeka”.
6. “Civilisation et technoculture” (prés. S. Ghernaouti-Hélie, salle 5125)
14h30-15h10 – Solange Ghernaouti-Hélie (HEC, Unil) : “Techno sacré, cyberespace et protéisme numérique : répondre autrement aux interrogations profondes de l’humain”.
15h15-15h55 – Franck Franchin (HEC, Unil) : “Livre 2.0 : opportunités ou chaos ?”.
16h-16h40 – Fabien Nobilio (ULB, Bruxelles) : “What Comes after the Cosmic Book ? Literacy and its Symbolic Appropriation”.
16h45-17h30 – Tobias Schweizer (Université de Bâle) : “A Topographical Transcription Method”.
At 17h30, public evening at Anthropole (17h30-22h)
June 22, 2011
ESF-Humanities Spring 2011 workshop
From the 9th to the 12th June was held the Humanities Spring workshop on “Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities”. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the changes and implications of the new means provided by digital publications. Besides the senior researchers who were organising the workshop, 22 early career researchers were invited to share their experience and to work out a first draft of a manifesto about the issues and challenges of the new publication methods.
It was a very enriching and rewarding experience to have been awarded to take part in this workshop. I appreciated in particular the international environment which was created, the experience of the collaborative writing of the draft with my fellow-grantees and the expertise of the senior researchers.
To summarize the outcome of the workshop I would like to mention a few points :
- It is amazing how many different new approaches the digital elaboration of a project can provide for a researcher.
- Even if the English language tends to be the most efficient mean to disseminate the outcome of a project, the digital environment is not limited to it.
- It is in the diversity that the domain of the Humanities has its strength.
May 1, 2011
Academia Ragusina Secunda
The Academia Ragusina Secunda organised by Jadranka Bagaric was held in Dubrovnik from April 26th to April 30th.
This Summer School was part of Euroclassica and was dedicated to the theme “Humanism on the Threshold of the Renaissance” (Programme)
During this interesting meeting, a few Croatian digital projects were presented or at least alluded to. I would like to mention three of them here:
First there is CroALa: the abbreviation stands for Croatiae auctores Latini and the project aims at providing a digital edition of the Croatian authors who wrote in Latin. The peculiarity of the project is the fact that the project itself is in Latin. Further it is done with the TEI-standards and allows word-searching in all the available texts.
Secondly I would like to mention the Bibliotheca Corviniana Digitalis project. The aim of the project is the reconstitution of the library of Matthias Corvinus, who was Hungarian King from 1458 to 1490.
Finally there was the paper given by Bruno Curko (Original works of Renaissance philosophers in the digital world). He showed in his talk an amazing number of original works from Renaissance philosophers, which were now available in digital form on the web. The demonstration was particularly convincing as he took as examples lesser-known Croatian authors.
April 2, 2011
Venue at the CHS: The Future of the Classics
Today the CHS hosted the meeting: The Future of the Classics: A Discussion of the State of the Art. 
The speakers were:
Don Lavigne, Texas Tech, “Introduction: Classics as Cost Center?”
Liz Gephardt, Williamsburg Middle School, “Classics in American Schools”
Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Berkeley, “Classics in Greece”
Barbara Graziosi, Durham, “Classics in Italy and Britain”
Norman Sandridge, Howard, “Classics and ‘Academic Renewal’”
Johannes Haubold, Durham, “Classics and Comparative Studies”
Allen Romano, Florida State, “Classics and Digital Humanaties”
You may find more information about it on the CHS fellowship research blog.
The meeting was broadcast on the web and a chat interface was made available:
So I could attend the meeting and follow the presentations as well as the discussion afterwards. Of particular interest I found the fact that the speakers and participants not only thought about the future of Classics and the way it will be presented by its members, but also about the way the students of Classics perceive their own studies.
March 6, 2011
Simon Ianuensis: a collaborative edition
Simon Online has just been started and it seems to be a very promising project. It is set as a collaborative edition addressed to a very large community, based on the experience and inspired by the Suda On Line.
There is however another interesting aspect of the project, going even a step further that the Suda On Line. A link to the images of an early edition (1510) of the text is provided and can thus be used as valuable help for the elaboration of the contributions.
It is then interesting to see that in current projects the distance between the physical remains of an ancient text, such as inscriptions, papyrus, manuscripts or early prints as here, and the editorial and/or interpretative works on them tends to be eliminated, putting such fragile and precious objects at the disposal of a very large public without harming them.
