Overview, cultural heritage and digital humanities

Thursday September 14, 2017. 16h00-17h15 British Summer Time

Session 1: Overview: Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities

Convenors: Monica Berti, Gabriel Bodard, Simona Stoyanova, Rada Varga, Valeria Vitale

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/zhopWh6M0mo

Slides: https://goo.gl/RNeSZQ

UNESCO cultural heritage definition page: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural-property/unesco-database-of-national-cultural-heritage-laws/frequently-asked-questions/definition-of-the-cultural-heritage/

Outline

1. Overview of the Sunoikisis Fall 2017 semester (Monica Berti, Gabriel Bodard)
2. Digital approaches to cultural heritage (Simona Stoyanova)
3. Relevance of Digital Humanities for historical research (Rada Varga)

Suggested readings for semester

• BICS 59-2: Digital Approaches and the Ancient World (Bodard/Broux/Tarte, 2016) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bics.2016.59.issue-2/issuetoc
• Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber (Bodard/Romanello, Ubiquity Press, 2016) https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/10.5334/bat/
• ISAW Papers 7: Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World (Elliott/Heath/Muccigrosso, 2014) http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/
• The Digital Classicist 2013 (Dunn/Mahony, BICS Supplement 122) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/simonmahony/SUPP-122-01-intro-offprint.pdf
• Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity (Bodard/Mahony, Ashgate, 2010) https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Research-in-the-Study-of-Classical-Antiquity/Mahony-Bodard/p/book/9780754677734
• Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure (Crane/Terras, 2009) https://www.gorgiaspress.com/changing-the-center-of-gravity
• Digital Medievalist 4: "Though much is taken, much abides" (Bodard/Mahony, 2008) https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/10.16995/dm.17/

Other resources

• Digital Classics projects: https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Projects
• Digital Classics tools: https://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Category:Tools