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*selgā: a catalogue of primary source materials for Celtic studies

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*selgā (http://www.vanhamel.nl/wiki) is a new online project for Celtic studies, published by the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies, a Dutch non-profit organisation based in Utrecht. The project seeks to build a catalogue of texts and manuscripts, thereby providing a reference tool for studying written sources relevant to the field. The foundation intends to uncover a relatively untapped niche by making the catalogue available as a collaborative platform, which is based on the open-source MediaWiki software package. Scholars and students are invited to contribute to the project.

While comprehensiveness would be an unrealistic goal in the short term, *selgā has not been designed as a one-off, but as a continuous project which may be suited to accommodate smaller, more manageable ‘sub-projects’ under its umbrella. At present, over 500 texts – most of them in the realm of early Irish literature – have been indexed giving some basic information and citing relevant publications using an onboard bibliographic system. Links to online resources such as CELT and ISOS are generously included. New entries will be created and existing ones expanded and improved as the project develops.

Inquiries can be e-mailed to Dennis Groenewegen at selga[at]vanhamel.nl.

Posted by: Dennis Groenewegen (selga@vanhamel.nl).

CFP: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ (Kalamazoo 2012)…

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Dear all,

I hope that the following will be of interest to those on this list.

Call for Papers: ‘Digital Methods and Resources for Palaeography and Manuscript Studies’ at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan (10th May-13th May 2012)

The digital environment offers exciting ways of enhancing and extending the traditional methodologies used in palaeographical and manuscript research. The aim of this session is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects that overlap or complement each other.

Papers of 20 minutes in length are invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies.

Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) and the Congress Participant Information Form
(http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for receipt of submissions is 15th September 2011. Notice of acceptance will be sent by 1st October 2011.

Seminar: GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace

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Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011

Friday July 22nd at 16:30
Room 37, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Sandra Blakely (Emory)
Modeling the Mysteries:
GIS technology, network models, and the cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace
ALL WELCOME

The mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace promised safety in sea travel as the reward for initiation. This ongoing project tests the hypothesis that the promise was real, effected through the human social networks created through initiation and festival participation. A GIS database of sites plots the locations of Samothracian affilitation, based on epigraphic and textual evidence for initiation, theoroi, proxenoi, koina, priesthoods and shrines; historical comparanda suggest the potential for these to support long distance maritime travel. Network models recommend the hypothesis that Samothrace functioned as a super-node connecting smaller independent networks, offering an economic argument for the cult’s longevity.
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/wip2011.html

Posted by: Gabriel Bodard (gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk).

EpiDoc Training Workshop

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EpiDoc Training Workshop
5-8 September 2011
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London

An EpiDoc training workshop will be offered by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute for Classical Studies in September this year. The workshop is free of charge and open to all, but spaces are limited and registration as soon as possible is essential.

This workshop is an introduction to the use of EpiDoc, an XML schema for the encoding and publication of inscriptions, papyri and other documentary Classical texts. Participants will study the use of EpiDoc markup to record the distinctions expressed by the Leiden Conventions and traditional critical editions, and some of the issues in translating between EpiDoc and the major epigraphic and papyrological databases. They will also be given hands-on experience in the use of the Papyrological Editor tool implemented by the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, which facilitates the authoring EpiDoc XML via a ‘tags-free’ interface.

The course is targeted at scholars of epigraphy and papyrology (from advanced graduate students to professors) with an interest and willingness to learn some of the hands-on technical aspects necessary to run a digital project. Knowledge of Greek and/or Latin, the Leiden Conventions and the distinctions expressed by them, and the kinds of data that need to be recorded by philologists and ancient historians, will be assumed. No particular technical expertise is required.

Places on the EpiDoc training week are limited so if you are interested in attending the workshop or have any questions, please contact charlotte.tupman@kcl.ac.uk and gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible with a brief statement of qualifications and interest.

Conference: Diritto romano e scienze antichistiche nell’era digitale

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Firenze
Altana di Palazzo Strozzi
Piazza Strozzi
12 e 13 settembre 2011

Convegno conclusivo della ricerca MIUR (PRIN 2007) “BIA-Net: accesso in rete alla Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui”

Con il patrocinio di:

Fondazione “Rinascimento digitale”

Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale

Centro di ricerca sulle Tecnologie Informatiche e Multimediali Applicate al Diritto (TIMAD) – Università di Catania

PROGRAMMA

12 settembre 2011

Ore 9,30 – Registrazione dei partecipanti

Ore 10,30

Saluti – Mario Citroni – direttore dell’Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

Il panorama degli studi antichistici nell’era digitale: problemi e prospettive – Nicola Palazzolo, Università di Perugia

Strumenti digitali per la ricerca nella discipline antichistiche: linee di sviluppo – Alessandro Cristofori, Università della Calabria

Tavola Rotonda

Le riviste elettroniche di antichistica

coordina:
Orazio Licandro, Università di Catanzaro
intervengono:
Francesco Sini, Università di Sassari
(direttore di “Diritto & Storia”);
Ferdinando Zuccotti, Università di Torino
(direttore di “Rivista di diritto romano”);
Franco Montanari, Università di Genova
(direttore di “L’Année philologique”);
Paola Moscati, CNR/Roma
(direttore di “Archeologia e Calcolatori”)

Ore 13,30 – Lunch

Ore 15

Lo storico del mondo antico e il computer: la gestione digitale del documento storiografico – Paolo Desideri, Università di Firenze


Il trattamento digitale delle fonti giuridiche di tradizione manoscritta – Gianfranco Purpura, Università di Palermo


Esperienze diverse e complementari nel trattamento digitale delle fonti epigrafiche: il caso di EAGLE ed EpiDoc  – Antonio Enrico Felle, Università di Bari


Edizione e ricostruzione digitale dei testi papiracei – Isabella Andorlini, Università di Parma

13 settembre 2011

Ore 9,30

Da BIA e BD-Rom a BIA-Net: l’integrazione in rete degli archivi dei diritti dell’Antichità – Francesco Arcaria, Patrizia Sciuto, Ignazio Zangara, Università di Catania

L’uso degli standard XML per la gestione in rete dei documenti giuridici romani – Daria Spampinato, CNR/Catania

Tecnologie di web semantico per le scienze umane: thesauri, ontologiee linked data  – Aldo Gangemi, CNR/Roma

Una biblioteca digitale per gli studi antichistici – Anna Maria Tammaro, Università di Parma

Ore 13 Pranzo

Ore 14,30

La filologia del testo assistita da calcolatore – Andrea Bozzi, CNR/Pisa

Filologia latina e testo elettronico. La ricerca dei prototipi letterari in poesia epigrafica – Paolo Mastandrea, Università di Venezia

Metodi quantitativi nell’attribuzione dei testi. Un caso di studio romanistico: Ausonio – Maurizio Lana, Università del Piemonte Orientale

Le integrazioni delle lacune nei testi giuridici romani: il Gaio digitale – Filippo Briguglio, Università di Bologna

Conclusioni – Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane

Nei due giorni del convegno saranno presentati in una sala attigua alcuni prodotti informatici di particolare interesse:

BIA-Net: la Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui in rete
Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Università di Catania

Progetti di Papirologia Digitale in corso
Nicola Reggiani, Università di Parma

Diritto romano e lingua greca. Un lessico della terminologia greca utilizzata nell’amministrazione e nel diritto in età romana
Andrea Raggi, Università di Pisa

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