Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012

Friday July 6th at 16:30
Room G22/26 (note room change),
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Charlotte Tupman (KCL)
‘Digital epigraphy beyond the Classical: creating (inter?)national standards for recording modern and early modern gravestones’

ALL WELCOME

Early modern and modern gravestones are a vast but rapidly decaying historical resource. Weathering, damage, and re-use have all affected the size and scholarly value of this material. There are no agreed standards for recording and publishing gravestones, and recording is fragmentary and inconsistent. However, many of the standards used in the digital publication of Classical and Medieval inscriptions are applicable to modern gravestones: this paper investigates whether they provide a viable method of recording such a large body of data, where the researchers are often not experts in epigraphy, and solutions are suggested for designing a pilot project.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-06ct.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Details of this week’s Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012

Friday June 22nd at 16:30
Room G37,
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Alejandro Giacometti (UCL)
Lindsay MacDonald (UCL)
Alberto Campagnolo (University of the Arts)

‘Cultural Heritage Destruction: Documenting Parchment Degradation via Multispectral Imaging’

ALL WELCOME

In this seminar we describe the methodology and present preliminary results of a project using multispectral imaging to document the deterioration of parchment. A series of treatments has been applied to degrade samples from a deaccessioned manuscript using both physical and chemical agents. Each sample has been photographed before and after the treatment by a multispectral imaging system to record the effect of the treatments on both the writing and the parchment. We present the initial imaging of the samples, details on their treatment agents and how they affect the writing and parchment, the final imaging, and some image processing analysis.

Full abstract is available:

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).

Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2012

Friday June 15th at 16:30
Court Room (note change of room),
Senate House, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HU

Angeliki Chrysanthi (Southampton)
‘A visitor-sourced methodology for the interpretation of archaeological sites’

ALL WELCOME

This paper investigates movement and behaviour patterns of visitors to archaeological sites as a way of informing interpretive planning. A critical point was the development of a hybrid methodology for collecting and assessing data on movement around sites. I will demonstrate the methodology developed at the archaeological site of Gournia in Greece. Recognised forms of observation and the collection of qualitative data, and technologies such as GPS body tracking, geo-tagging and GIS applications were employed. The interpretation of the processed data provided better insight and an overview of the site’s affordances for movement and revealed the site’s ‘hot spots’ according to visitors’ assessment.

Full abstract is available:
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012-03ac.html

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk, Stuart.Dunn@kcl.ac.uk, S.Mahony@ucl.ac.uk, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2012.html

Posted by: Simon Mahony (s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk).