Just a word of caution about relying on anything related to
arts-humanities.net ... its funding has not been renewed, so I'd steer
clear of pinning anything concrete to it, as what will happen to it is
not yet certain (as far as I understand).
Melissa
On 19/05/2010 17:51, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> I'd add two points:
>
> (1) I agree with Stuart that arts-humanities.net has useful resources
> and methods that may help to disentangle some of the ambiguity here.
> In particular the taxonomy/folksonomy techniques for categorizing
> resources and tools by academic area as well as methodology, etc. We
> also have tags in the DC wiki that could be useful here --a given page
> could be tagged as "Byzantine" as well as "XML" as well as "epigraphy"
> as well as "project", for example. The "category:Byzantine" page would
> therefore be a useful filter for Byzantinists who don't want to see
> all this Homer rubbish in their wiki. (Sadly, however, I don't think
> MediaWiki has a way to filter results by two categories
> simultaneously--unless someone can correct me?)
>
> (2) On the other hand, there is a certain value in discrete
> communities for individual academic areas. A few years ago we were
> discussing the pros and cons of having a single "digital philology"
> community instead of separate DC and DM. It was felt at the time, I
> think, that many Classicists (and for that matter mediaevalists) would
> not join such a community because it was not focused enough on their
> needs. (Not to mention that the historians, archaeologists,
> philosophers, and other non-philologists would be left out in the
> cold.) So it comes back to my original question to Charlotte: do you
> know any Byzantinists who would be philosophically opposed to (or just
> unenthusiastic about) membership of a "Classicist" community?
>
> G
>
> On 19 May 2010 13:30, Stuart Dunn<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I think one of the most interesting things about this group, and indeed
>> other Digital [namespace] lists are the methods inherent in the 'digital'
>> bit - especially - when considered in the light of different
>> (sub)disciplines. How does an application of a technology or piece of
>> software in one (spatially or chronologically specific) area feed back in to
>> its development, and thus its application in another? The DC wiki already
>> has comprehensive resources on tools and projects and, checking back just
>> now, it strikes me that the line between these is not always clear - maybe
>> this crossover helps explain that? And maybe some kind of articulation of
>> methods along these lines would help us to express the sum of DC's parts
>> better, and therefore provide Byzantinists (and others) with more of a
>> foothold? Maybe the resources/approaches of arts-humanities.net could help
>> us?
>>
>> Rather more question marks than I intended there.
>>
>> -Stuart
>>
>> Melissa Terras wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with the avoidance of duplication of effort (and email lists) -
>>> and the more the merrier, imho.
>>>
>>> Melissa
>>>
>>> On 19/05/2010 11:18, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have always intended for Digital Classicist to be welcoming to
>>>> Byzantinists, in the hope that this is not seen as academic
>>>> imperialism! (I'm sure DM would say the same thing... I suppose it
>>>> depends to what extent the needs of Byzantinists overlap with those of
>>>> ancient Hellenists [Greek encoding, primary text issues] and to what
>>>> extent with Western Mediaevalists [time period, manuscripts].) Michael
>>>> Jerrfreys and Charlotte Roueché were among the first scholars invited
>>>> to the advisory board.
>>>>
>>>> As a general rule I would tend to urge against the miltiplication of
>>>> entities and bodies, but I suppose the really deciding factory would
>>>> be, to what extent would you expect Byzantine scholars to be put off
>>>> by association with a Classicist community, as opposed to a community
>>>> of their own.
>>>>
>>>> Would it help if we added a few words to this effect to the DC front
>>>> page?
>>>>
>>>> G
>>>>
>>>> On 19 May 2010 10:11, Charlotte Roueche<[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Dear All
>>>>>
>>>>> With so much work on MSS (transcribed in the Byzantine period!) and
>>>>> scholia
>>>>> (frequently by Byzantine scholars) I have been wondering about outreach
>>>>> to
>>>>> Digital Byzantinists. We (Byzantinists) could set up a separate DigByz
>>>>> list,
>>>>> with links to DigClass and DigMed. Is that kind of multiplication a good
>>>>> thing? Or could we create DigClassPlus? Would DigClass be prepared to
>>>>> slightly extend its self-definition - the ancient and Byzantine worlds?
>>>>> -
>>>>> and then extend a formal invitation to Byzantinists to join?
>>>>>
>>>>> Charlotte
>>>>> ----------------------------
>>>>> Professor Charlotte Roueché
>>>>> Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies/Department of Classics
>>>>> King's College
>>>>> London WC2R 2LS
>>>>> direct tel. + 44 20.7848 2515
>>>>> fax + 44 20.7848 2545
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/bmgs/staff/roueche.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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