Comments on: Digital Research and Collaborative Work (APA panel)

By: Roshan Abraham

Roshan Abraham — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:03:10 +0000

Thanks for the link – I’ve just joined the Digital Classicist list. I’ll keep an eye out for information…

By: Gabriel Bodard

Gabriel Bodard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:55:47 +0000

Excellent. Are you on the Digital Classicist list? We should put out a preliminary call for interest there, see who might be willing to organize such a panel...

By: Roshan Abraham

Roshan Abraham — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:49:20 +0000

I’m working with a team of scholars on a digital text, commentary, and translation of Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana. This project has just gotten underway, and we have just developed a prototype of the digital site. We’re planning on producing both an open-access digital commentary as well as a traditional print commentary. I was thinking that if there was a panel on digital Classics, it would be a good opportunity to present our work-in-progress and begin discussion of the possibilities of digital commentaries.

By: Gabriel Bodard

Gabriel Bodard — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:59:12 +0000

I don’t know if there are concrete plans afoot, as yet, but I think it is very likely that there will be at least one panel proposed on digital Classical topics. Did you have anything in mind?

By: Roshan Abraham

Roshan Abraham — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:47:28 +0000

Is there any plans to have another digital research panel at next year’s APA?

By: Monica Berti

Monica Berti — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:27:14 +0000

A quick note from the APA/AIA meeting in Anaheim. The panel has been very interesting and the speakers have presented many fascinating projects and issues.
I have found particularly interesting the paper on a new digital edition of inscriptions from the northern Black Sea (IOSPE). One of the main concerns of this project is to show the interconnections between the Black Sea and other Mediterranean regions, linking geographical and linguistic data. I wonder if it would be possible to devise for the future also a way to link other information, such as historical and institutional ones. I remind for example the recent discoveries of ostraka in the Chersonesos Taurica, which are an extraordinary proof of the use of ostracism in that area in Classical age. It would be nice to compare the text of these ostraka to the Athenian ones and to other ostraka found in other parts of Greece, and also to literary sources concerning this institution and its historical applications.