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Digital Antiquity, Use case: inscribed texts by Charlotte Roueche, King's College London
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Digital Antiquity Use case: inscribed texts
Charlotte RouechéKing’s College London
Den Haag, 25 April 2015
“Researchers and cultural heritage institutions should publish use cases of their reuse of digital cultural
heritage.” What is the motivation for
them to do so?
Motivations:
• Esteem• The demands of the subject
• Dissemination• Sustainability
• Esteem/Advancement
Esteem (1)My first publications (2004, 2007) were funded under a
Resource Enhancement programme, which was then
discontinued:Digitisation is not considered
Real Research
Fair copies of texts at
Aphrodisias by Robert ‘Palmyra’
WoodOctober
1750
The demands of the subject:A full, clear account
Page from the
notebook of John
Deering, 1812
CIG I
Boeckh, 1828From the copies
of others.A careful
attempt to represent the appearance of
the text
CIL IMommsen, 1863
Detailed comments, occasional measurements
An Austrian notebook, 1893
Photography: Anatolia in 1926
Over the centuries there has been a huge growth in the volume of information about inscriptions which is accessible, and therefore
becomes required
From the 1980s scholars were thinking about handling inscribed texts digitally; the aims were to
deal with volume, and to facilitate search, within a closed body of
material: for early adopters there was no Web.
In 2000 Tom Elliott proposed the EpiDoc TEI compliant XML markup schema
Dissemination
Eagle is usingEpiDoc to create a
new, exemplary,
resource
Esteem (2) Academics will use this – but will they cite it? Humanists don’t like URLs
Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004:The publication has an ISBN:
access to library catalogues is still a problem
Esteem (3)The standards for digital
epigraphic publications are higher than for other formatsBut this is not the perception:
they are not reviewed in academic journals.
Why not?
One example of re-use – by computer scientists
http://laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk/
An example of non-reuse – by traditional academics
Published in 2012
Eagle is an example of a project by which scholarship can reach
entirely new audiences. What is not clear is whether the scholars
are ready for this.Reuse is a difficult concept: we need to develop the idea of a
knowledge journey: see Pelagios
Sustainability?
We cannot advocate digital publication without having
answers to the sustainability question.
I learned a great deal about the usage of one of my publications
only when the site went down . . .
New Research Data Management requirements may be changing the
landscape: Europeana could be presented as part of a LOCKS
strategy. There are repositories in various EU countries: scholars need
to be told where they are.
But the digital presentation of materials from Libya should provide
an argument for digitisation as a means of conservation!