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Digital Antiquity Use case: inscribed texts
Charlotte RouechéKing’s College London
Den Haag, 25 April 2015
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“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?
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Motivations:
• Esteem• The demands of the subject
• Dissemination• Sustainability
• Esteem/Advancement
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Esteem (1)My first publications (2004, 2007) were funded under a
Resource Enhancement programme, which was then
discontinued:Digitisation is not considered
Real Research
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Fair copies of texts at
Aphrodisias by Robert ‘Palmyra’
WoodOctober
1750
The demands of the subject:A full, clear account
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Page from the
notebook of John
Deering, 1812
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CIG I
Boeckh, 1828From the copies
of others.A careful
attempt to represent the appearance of
the text
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CIL IMommsen, 1863
Detailed comments, occasional measurements
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An Austrian notebook, 1893
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Photography: Anatolia in 1926
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Over the centuries there has been a huge growth in the volume of information about inscriptions which is accessible, and therefore
becomes required
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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.
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In 2000 Tom Elliott proposed the EpiDoc TEI compliant XML markup schema
Dissemination
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Eagle is usingEpiDoc to create a
new, exemplary,
resource
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Esteem (2) Academics will use this – but will they cite it? Humanists don’t like URLs
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Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004:The publication has an ISBN:
access to library catalogues is still a problem
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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?
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One example of re-use – by computer scientists
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http://laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk/
An example of non-reuse – by traditional academics
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Published in 2012
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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
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Sustainability?
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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 . . .
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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.
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But the digital presentation of materials from Libya should provide
an argument for digitisation as a means of conservation!