Digital Classicist/ICS 2010 summer seminar programme

Digital Classicist 2010 summer seminar programme
Institute of Classical Studies

Meetings are on Fridays at 16:30
in room STB9 (Stewart House)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

ALL WELCOME
Seminars will be followed by refreshments

 * Jun 4   _Leif Isaksen (Southampton)_      Reading Between the
Lines: unearthing structure in Ptolemy's Geography

 * Jun 11  _Hafed Walda (King's College London)_ and Charles Lequesne
(RPS Group)  Towards a National Inventory for Libyan Archaeology

 * Jun 18  _Timothy Hill (King's College London)_    After
Prosopography? Data modelling, models of history, and new directions
for a scholarly genre.

 * Jun 25  _Matteo Romanello (King's College London)_        Towards a
Tool for the Automatic Extraction of Canonical References

 * Jul 2   _Mona Hess (University College London)_   3D Colour Imaging
For Cultural Heritage Artefacts

 * Jul 16  _Annemarie La Pensée (National Conservation Centre) and
Françoise Rutland (World Museum Liverpool)_        Non-contact 3D
laser scanning as a tool to aid identification and interpretation of
archaeological artefacts: the case of a Middle Bronze Age Hittite Dice

 * Jul 23  _Mike Priddy (King's College London)_     On-demand Virtual
Research Environments: a case study from the Humanities

 * Jul 30  _Monica Berti (Torino) and Marco Büchler (Leipzig)_
Fragmentary Texts and Digital Collections of Fragmentary Authors

 * Aug 6   _Kathryn Piquette (University College London)_    Material
Mediates Meaning: Exploring the artefactuality of writing utilising
qualitative data analysis software

 * Aug 13  _Linda Spinazzè (Venice)_ Musisque Deoque. Developing new
features: manuscripts tracing on the net

For more information on individual seminars and updates on the
programme, see http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/

A Scholar Gets a Kindle and Starts to Read

Open Access, Classical Studies and Publication by Postgraduate Researchers

Stefan Krmnicek and Peter Probst have a very interesting article Open Access, Classical Studies and Publication by Postgraduate Researchers in Archaeolog, about the Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde.

In conclusion, despite the difficulties mentioned above, the project to set up a free and accessible online journal organized by and for young scholars and encompassing all facets of classical studies has been relatively successful. Thanks to free online access the articles published in this periodical have found widespread recognition both within the field and outside of it. The reception of transmitted information, substantiated by references in print-media, can also be summed up as positive. It is, however, regrettable that – due to the circumstances mentioned above – it is precisely the younger generation of classical scholars who do not fully profit from the use of online publication, even though experience shows clearly that research published online reaches a wider public much faster than do publications in traditional print media. That the scientific community is increasingly convinced of the advantages of electronic publication can be deduced from the number of newly established online periodicals (e.g. The Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries established in May 2009) (1). A journal specifically tailored to junior academics, published three times a year, open to articles written in multiple languages, with its own ISSN number – as is the case with the FeRA journal – is unique.

Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come

Jerome McGann organized a three-day conference at University of Virginia, Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come (26-28 March 2010).

Some of the contributions are now available online

McGann, Jerome.
"Introduction." Connexions.
May 1, 2010.
http://cnx.org/content/m34305/1.1/.

McGann, J.
Integrating Digital Papyrology. [Abstract of Roger Bagnall, “Integrating Digital Papyrology”]
Connexions,
May 1, 2010.
http://cnx.org/content/m34320/1.1/.

Crane, G.
Give us editors! Re-inventing the edition and re-thinking the humanities. [a response to Roger Bagnall’s contribution on Digital Papyrology]
Connexions,
May 1, 2010.
http://cnx.org/content/m34316/1.1/.

Robinson, P.
Response to Roger Bagnall paper: Integrating Digital Papyrology.
Connexions,
May 1, 2010.
http://cnx.org/content/m34325/1.1/.

I wish to be clear that my concern revolves around the number of web pages on good, serious sites that are posted without attribution of any kind. Some such pages - let's say short, general descriptions of a projects - may be fine. But my concern is that those in charge have clear, explicit guidelines for what needs stated authors and what does not. Nick Eiteljorg | |