Summer2020 Session 5

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2020

Session 5. Open Access for Digital Classics

Thursday May 7, 17:00-18:15 CEST

Convenors: Monica Berti (University of Leipzig) and Rada Varga (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/87iXeml7dB4

Slides

Session outline

The aim of this session is to present the current state of the art of Open Access and Digital Classics. The session describes and discusses open access resources that are now available in the fields of Digital Classical Philology and Digital Classical History and that can be and are currently employed in research, as well as in teaching.

Reference materials

• The Digital Classicist Wiki
• Open Greek and Latin
• Digital Latin Library
• Perseus Catalog
• The Classical Language Toolkit

Seminar readings

• P. Suber. Open Access. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series 2012. Available: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access (PDF)

• M.P. Eve. Open Access and the Humanities. Contexts, Controversies and the Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014. Available: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/open-access-and-the-humanities/02BD7DB4A5172A864C432DBFD86E5FB4

• R. Varga (ed.) Digital Classics and Ancient History. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia 63.2 (2018). Available: http://digihubb.centre.ubbcluj.ro/journal/index.php/digitalia/issue/view/5

• M. Berti (ed.). Digital Classical Philology. Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution. Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft 10. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter 2019. Available: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/502894 and http://www.oapen.org/record/1006690

Further reading

• E. Meeks, K. Grossner. ORBIS: An Interactive Scholarly Work on the Roman World. Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 2012.

• Modeling Networks and Scholarship with ORBIS. Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 2012.

• Trismegistos Online Publications: https://www.trismegistos.org/top/.

Exercise

1. Browse the Perseus Catalog and the Digital Latin Library's Catalog, select an author, and compare records and metadata in both catalogs.
2. Imagine a trading enterprise and reconstruct its endeavors in ORBIS (http://orbis.stanford.edu/). Estimate the costs, the best route, the optimal transportation.
3. Choose a Roman emperor and browse for entries connected to him in EDH (https://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/home?&lang=de), Arachne (https://arachne.dainst.org/) and Portable Antiquities Scheme (https://finds.org.uk/database). Compare what you find in terms of nature of the artefacts, quantity and spacial distribution.