Please find below the details of a joint Classics/Digital Humanities
seminar in King's College London next week:
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*21st Century Citation and Practical Quotation in a Digital Library*
Professor Christopher W. Blackwell (Furman University)
Thursday January 17th, 13:00
Room B.7, Classics Department, King's College London
The heart of humanist scholarship is “quotation”, reproduction plus
citation. Reproduction lets us focus on an object of study—a word, a
verse. Citation saves us from having to reproduce more than we need,
while still affording access to an object-of-study’s larger context.
Citations are concise. If done correctly, they allow graphs of knowledge
to survive across technological revolutions.
Christopher Blackwell will talk about citation as implemented for the
Homer Multitext. This is a 21st Century model of unambiguous,
machine-actionable citation of texts, data, and images. This
presentation will be both conceptual and practical. It will describe a
decade-long process of refactoring and separation of concerns toward a
generic and highly flexible approach to a complex digital library
problem. It will end with demonstrations of tools that allow efficient
citation of details on images, and tools for adding to html documents
citations of texts, images, and data that can automatically resolve to
the quotations they cite.
All tools and data developed by the Homer Multitext are freely available
under open content licenses and are as platform agnostic as possible.
[ Christopher W. Blackwell is the Louis G. Forgione University Professor
at Furman University, in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. With Neel
Smith he is a Project Architect of the Homer Multitext, a project of the
Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University under the Editorship
of Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott. ]
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
Researcher in Digital Epigraphy
Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388
F: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
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http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
Researcher in Digital Epigraphy
Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
T: +44 (0)20 7848 1388
F: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
E: [log in to unmask]
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
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