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appel à participation se trouve aussi en français à l'url 
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partecipazione e' disponibile anche in Italiano all'indirizzo 
http://digitalclassicist.org/cfp/it-index.html  |  versión español 
próximamente

We should like to announce the creation of a new project and community, 
hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (KCL), applying 
humanities computing to the study of the ancient world. The Digital 
Classicist has a pilot web site at http://www.digitalclassicist.org, which, 
as well as serving as a placeholder for further content, sets out our aims 
and objectives in a preliminary manner. As you will see, key sections of 
the website and summaries of articles will, where possible, be translated 
into the major languages of European scholarship: e.g. English, French, 
German, Italian, Spanish etc. The project also comprises a discussion list, 
a Wiki, and a Blog.

The project, which is committed to being ongoing and available in the long 
term, fills a gap in the current academic environment: there are countless 
important digital research projects in the classics, including many that 
offer advice and share tools; there are sites that discuss, host, or list 
such resources (the Stoa, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, 
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents in Oxford, EAGLE in Rome, to name 
but a few); but there is no single platform for scholars and interested 
experts in the international and polyglot community to discuss problems, 
share experiences, post news and advice, and go to for help on all matters 
digital and classical. We shall of course work closely with other 
organisations and projects that are active in these areas (in particular 
the Stoa, and other subject communities such as the Digital Medievalist, 
including specialists in archaeological, historical, and geographical 
technologies), to avoid excessive overlap and maximise co-operation and 
collaboration.

At this point we especially need members of the international scholarly 
community to contribute to the project. If you feel you could get involved 
in an editorial capacity, or you could recommend somebody else to do so, 
please do get in touch. There is no obligation that editors give up many 
hours of their time, of course--editorial roles are discussed in a posting 
at http://tinyurl.com/cpdsu . In addition we should be very grateful if you 
could suggest other people--especially those in non-Anglophone Europe--who 
might be interested in participating in this project in any way.

And in any case, please spread the word, join the mailing list and get 
involved in the discussions as we establish this new project and community.

Best regards,

The Editors
digitalclassicist.org

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