Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement Edited by Gabriel Bodard and Matteo Romanello ]u[ ubiquity press London Published by Ubiquity Press Ltd. 6 Windmill Street London W1T 2JB www.ubiquitypress.com Text © The Authors 2016 First published 2016 Cover design by Amber MacKay Front cover image: The end of the tunnel by Conan, licensed under CC-BY 2.0 Background cover image: mikegi / Pixabay, licensed under CC0 Printed in the UK by Lightning Source Ltd. Print and digital versions typeset by Siliconchips Services Ltd. ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-909188-46-4 ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-909188-48-8 ISBN (PDF): 978-1-909188-47-1 ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-909188-61-7 ISBN (Mobi/Kindle): 978-1-909188-62-4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Interna- tional License. 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License: CC-BY 4.0 To read the free, open access version of this book online, visit http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat or scan this QR code with your mobile device: In memoriam Sebastian Rahtz (1955–2016) We dedicate this volume to our colleague, collaborator and friend Sebastian—scholar, archaeologist, humanist, geek— whose life and work always exemplified the openness, interdisciplinarity, curiosity and generosity with which we hoped to infuse this book. El futuro no te sera indiferente, amigo. Table of Contents Acknowledgements vii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Section 1. Teaching 13 Chapter 1. Learning by Doing: Learning to Implement the TEI Guidelines Through Digital Classics Publication (Stella Dee, Maryam Foradi and Filip Šarić) 15 Chapter 2. Open Education and Open Educational Resources for the Teaching of Classics in the UK (Simon Mahony) 33 Chapter 3. Epigraphers and Encoders: Strategies for Teaching and Learning Digital Epigraphy (Gabriel Bodard and Simona Stoyanova) 51 Chapter 4. An Open Tutorial for Beginning Ancient Greek (Jeff Rydberg-Cox) 69 Chapter 5. The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment (Francesco Mambrini) 83 Section 2. Knowledge Exchange 101 Chapter 6. Of Features and Models: A Reflexive Account of Interdisciplinarity across Image Processing, Papyrology, and Trauma Surgery (Ségolène M. Tarte) 103 Chapter 7. Cultural Heritage Destruction: Experiments with Parchment and Multispectral Imaging (Alberto Campagnolo, Alejandro Giacometti, Lindsay MacDonald, Simon Mahony, Melissa Terras and Adam Gibson) 121 vi Table of Contents Chapter 8. Transparent, Multivocal, Cross-disciplinary: The Use of Linked Open Data and a Community- developed RDF Ontology to Document and Enrich 3D Visualisation for Cultural Heritage (Valeria Vitale) 147 Section 3. Public Engagement 169 Chapter 9. The Perseids Platform: Scholarship for all! (Bridget Almas and Marie-Claire Beaulieu) 171 Chapter 10. Engaging Greek: Ancient Lives (James Brusuelas) 187 Chapter 11. Ancient Inscriptions between Citizens and Scholars: The Double Soul of the EAGLE Project (Silvia Orlandi) 205 Acknowledgements The editors would like to thank the following colleagues who gave feedback on one or more chapters: Elton Barker, Aurélien Berra, Barbara Bordalejo, Tom Brughmans, Paul Caton, Mark Depauw, Sebastian Heath, Timothy Hill, Fabian Körner, Undine Lieberwirth, Pietro Liuzzo, Franco Luciani, Marcus Neuschäfer, John Pearce, Elena Pierazzo, Jonathan Prag, Allen Riddell, Eleanor Robson, Charlotte Roueché, Wolfgang Schmidle, Martina Trognitz, Charlotte Tupman, Raffaele Viglianti, Jane Winters and those we have inevitably forgot- ten! The quality of the book was also enhanced by the insightful peer-review comments from Monica Berti and one anonymous reviewer. Contributors Bridget Almas ([email protected]) has worked in software development since 1994 in roles which have covered the full spectrum of the software devel- opment life cycle, focusing since 2007 in the fields of language study and digital humanities. In her current role at Tufts University, Bridget is the lead software developer and architect for the Perseus Digital Library, currently serving as technical lead on the Perseids Project. She was also one of the primary pro- grammers on the open source Alpheios Project, whose goal is make reading and learning mankind’s most beautiful and significant classical languages as easy and enjoyable as possible. Marie-Claire Beaulieu ([email protected]) is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Tufts University. Her research centers on Greek reli- gion and Digital Humanities. In Greek religion, she has published on various aspects of Greek cults and myths, especially centering on myths of the sea. She has just published a book titled The Sea in the Greek Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press). In Digital Humanities, she is the co-director of the Perseids Project, a collaborative online environment in which users can edit, translate, and produce commentaries on a variety of ancient source documents, including inscriptions, medieval manuscripts, and texts transmitted through the manuscript tradition. Gabriel Bodard ([email protected]) is Reader in Digital Classics at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. After a PhD in Classics, he worked for nearly fifteen years in Digital Humanities, where he special- ised in text encoding, digital editing, and linked open data for ancient texts and objects. He has contributed to several online corpora of inscriptions and papyri, is one of the lead authors of the EpiDoc Guidelines for XML encoding of ancient source texts, and is the principal investigator of the Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies project. James Brusuelas ([email protected]) is Researcher in Papyrology and Digi- tal Philology in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on Greek literature and papyrology, ancient comedy, and Greek philos- ophy and science. As the principal creator and project manager for numerous digital initiatives at Oxford, he is currently developing applications that facili- tate the creation of born-digital critical (and thus citable) editions of Greek and Latin literature. For ancient books and fragmentary manuscripts in general, he x Contributors is also designing new models for virtual museums that have impact on non- academic communities and especially the tourism industry. Alberto Campagnolo ([email protected]) trained as a book conservator in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various interna- tional institutions, including the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library Materials (BA Hons) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice and then Digital Culture and Technology (MA) at King’s College London. His doctoral research, at the Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts London, focussed on automatically visualizing historical bookbinding structures. He is interested in building a dialogue between the world of conservation in memory institu- tions and that of digital humanities, and in the digital representation of physical aspect of books. Stella Dee completed her masters in Digital Humanities at King’s College Lon- don, examining the pedagogical construction of online resources for TEI XML encoding. Stella studied international comparative studies at Duke University, with a focus on Fulfulde literary history. Through the Robertson Scholars Pro- gram, she completed a second major in archaeology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her interests include the intersections and shaping forces of language, power, and education. Maryam Foradi ([email protected]) graduated from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, with a masters in Teaching German as a For- eign Language, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Translation Studies. Her working languages as a professional translator include Farsi (L1), German and English. A longstanding focus on language instruction and translation led her to her current position as a doctoral student whose dissertation will focus on pedagogical issues of using translation alignment tools for Classical Persian. Alejandro Giacometti ([email protected]) has a PhD in Image Analysis from University College London, and an MA in Humanities Computing from University of Alberta. His PhD consisted of an evaluation of image processing methodologies for recovering writing from multispectral images of damaged manuscripts. He worked in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London creating digital platforms to organise and explore datasets such as classical inscriptions and historical prosopog- raphies. His research interests include multispectral imaging, data science, and humanities data visualisation. In particular, he is interested in how com- putational and machine learning methodologies can aid and complement traditional humanities expertise. Simon Mahony ([email protected]) is