DH Seminar: Language, script, materiality: modelling multifaceted research on ancient Sicily
Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Simona Stoyanova (University of Oxford): "Language, script, materiality: modelling multifaceted research on ancient Sicily". Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1. Join us for drinks and nibbles following the paper!
| A Digital Humanities seminar | |
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| Date | 16 November 2022 |
| Time | 15:30 to 17:00 |
| Place | Digital Humanities Laboratory Digital Humanities Lab Seminar Room 1 |
Event details
Abstract
Crossreads is a five-year ERC-funded project, based at the University of Oxford in partnership with King’s Digital Lab and Università di Catania, aiming to comprehensively study the epigraphic culture in multilingual Sicily. The digitisation of the epigraphic material on the island started ten years ago with the Inscriptions of Sicily project. This epigraphic corpus, published online and in the public domain since 2017, holds all 4000+ inscriptions encoded in EpiDoc and makes them available for download, enabling further research and reuse.
Starting from this corpus of inscriptions, Crossreads involves three major sub-projects: 1) exploring the historical linguistics of the texts; 2) comprehensive petrographic analysis of the types of stone used for inscriptions in Sicily; and 3) the systematic study of letterforms across materials, time and language. Annotations and datasets from these modules will be pulled together via Linked Open Data (LOD).
The main task is designing an effective mechanism to integrate information from the multiple datasets in Crossreads to enable detailed interrogation of the corpus. Pulling results from all three strands will be made possible by linking and cross-referencing key pieces of information via unique identifiers. The base text remains the epigraphic text from ISicily, the main identifier for each text is always the ISic identifier. We are in the process of modelling the data structure of the linguistic, petrographic and palaeographic components, as well as the linking protocols for cross-referencing different types of data. Comparison between such diverse sets of data presents several technological challenges, however, not least the effective visualisation and user-friendly presentation of results.
This seminar will be held in person and on Zoom. Please follow the link below if you wish to attend remotely.
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Simona Stoyanova
My main research interests lie in the study of primary sources. I have worked in Digital Classics since graduation (BA Sofia, MA KCL), first on two major digital epigraphy projects at KCL – Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica and IOSPE: Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea. Between 2013-2015 I worked at the University of Leipzig on the Open Greek and Latin (OGL) project for digitisation of ancient sources in the public domain as part of the Perseus Digital Library, and on two research projects from the Leipzig Open Fragmentary Text Series (LOFTS): the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG) and the Digital Marmor Parium. In 2016 I returned to London to work on IOSPE again, and later joined the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, as a research fellow in library and information science on the Cataloguing Open Access Classics Serials (COACS) project. I later joined the ERC project LatinNow, based at the University of Nottingham, working on the epigraphic database and managing collaborations with Digital Humanities partners. I was briefly involved in the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions (CPI) project at CSAD before starting my current role in the Crossreads project at Oxford, working on the multilingual epigraphic landscape of ancient Sicily.
Within Digital Humanities my main interests lie in data modelling, data transformation, sustainability, open data, development and application of standards, cultural heritage preservation. I am a co-author of the EpiDoc Guidelines (http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/latest/) and stylesheets for XML encoding and publication of ancient documents. In the last few years I have been providing TEI XML expertise and consultation for the encoding of ancient and medieval documents, as well as training.
Location:
Digital Humanities Laboratory
