Research
Semantically geo-annotating an ancient Greek ”travel guide” Itineraries, Chronotopes, Networks, and Linked Data
GeoHumanities ’20: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, November 2020, Pages 1–9
Anna Foka, Elton Barker, Kyriaki Konstantinidou, Nasrin Mostofian, O. Cenk Demiroglu, Brady Kiesling, Linda Talatas, 2020-11-30
Category: Publications
Coding for the Many, Transforming Knowledge for All: Annotating Digital Documents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 October 2020
Elton Barker , Anna Foka and Kyriaki Konstantinidou, 2020-10-02
Category: Publications
Delos as a hyper-connected hub
By O. Cenk Demiroglu, 2020-02-27
As covered in last week’s post, annotating Pausanias’ references on Delos in Recogito enables us to visualize the many places with which the sanctuary-island was connected. But our digital venture...
Category: Blogs
Delos as a Mediterranean network?
2020-02-11
Mapping historical cultures dates before the term digital humanities became established, most notably through the method of cartography, the practice of drawing and studying maps. Traditional print cartography...
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Curtains for Zeus: Mapping a multi-media offering
2020-01-21
Annotating the surviving text of the intrepid 2nd century traveler Pausanias is a delicate task: weighing 223,000-odd words in ancient Greek and tagging people, places, events, and their relationships....
Category: Blogs
Introducing the Digital Periegesis
2019-12-02
Such in my opinion are the most famous legends (logoi) and sights (theorêmata) among the Athenians, and from the beginning my narrative has picked out of much material the things that deserve to be recorded. Pausanias, Description...
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A typology for annotating the Periegesis
2019-04-02
As we have set out in our previous posts, our aim in the Digital Periegesis is to identify and explore the spatial form of, and the forms of space within, Pausanias’s narrative. The challenge of analyzing...
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Contemplating a Digital Periegesis
DigHist – Perspectives on Digital History, Ellis Nilsson S. (ed). Scandia: Lund University Press
Anna Foka (Uppsala University), Elton Barker (The Open University), Kyriaki Konstantinidou (Umeå University) and Johan Åhlfeldt (University of Gothenburg), 2019-03-29
Category: Publications
