Approaches to Greek and Latin Text Reuse
By Neil Bernstein and Monica Berti
[These presenters submitted separate abstracts, but have agreed to combine them into one 20-minute presentation. Both original abstracts are given here, shortened to fit the total 600 word limit.]
Comparative rates of text reuse in Latin epic: an application of the Tesserae interface
After Integrating Digital Papyrology
By Ryan Baumann, Hugh Cayless, Joshua D. Sosin
Duke University recently completed Integrating Digital Papyrology, a five-year project supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aimed at (1) uniting the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens, and the Advanced Papyrological Information System under common, standards-based, sustainable technical control, and (2) erecting a technological framework for open and transparent, peer-reviewed, version-controlled, community-based, scholarly curation of these projects.
The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank
By Francesco Mambrini
The aim of this presentation is to introduce the practice of linguistic annotation to the audience by focusing on the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT), promoted by the Perseus Project [2]. Treebanks are text corpora where each word is annotated with information on morphology and syntactical relations. The recent appearance of a syntactically annotated corpus of Greek and Latin texts is a unique opportunity for scholars. On the one hand, some of the most sophisticated technologies for corpus-based research can be made available to the community of classicists.
Living Pictures: Computational Photography and the Digital Classics
By Adam Rabinowitz
This paper presents emerging computational techniques that allow the extraction of three-dimensional (or equivalent) information from standard digital photographs. It focuses on two techniques: photogrammetry and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI). Photogrammetry involves the extrapolation of 3D information from digital photographs taken of the same subject from different positions; RTI combines a series of photographs taken of the same subject from the same position, but with different lighting, to create still images that can be interactively re-lit.
Social Network Analysis and Ancient History
By Diane Cline
This paper demonstrates the utility, and sometimes futility, of using Social Network Analysis (SNA) in ancient history. I have been experimenting with Social Network Analysis and the free downloadable tool NODEXL in the study of Pericles, Philip II, Alexander the Great, as well as the Amarna Letters, and I have also explored limiting factors and will discuss where it might not work, as well.