The organizers would like to bring to the attention of interested colleagues this upcoming event dedicated to the digital publication of a new corpus of Ancient Inscriptions from the Northern Coast of Black Sea (IOSPE = Inscriptiones Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini).
Enhancing and Exploring Epigraphic and Archaeological Data through e-Science
In Association with eSI Thematic Programme: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities
10 February 2009, 09:30 AM – 11 February, 04:00 PM
e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
Organisers: Stuart Dunn, Irene Polinskaya and Gabriel Bodard
The meeting will bring technical and editorial researchers participating in, or otherwise engaged with, the IOSPE (Inscriptiones Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini = Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea Coast) project together with researchers in related fields, both historical and computational. Existing projects, such as the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica and Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, have explored the digitization of ancient inscriptions from their regions, and employed the EpiDoc schema as markup. IOSPE plans to expand this sphere of activity, in conjunction with a multi-volume publication of inscription data. This event is a joint workshop funded in part by a Small Research Grant from the British Academy, and in part by the eSI through the Arts and Humanities e-Science theme. The workshop will bring together domain experts in epigraphy, and specialists in digital humanities, and e-science researchers, which will provide a detailed scoping of the research questions, and the research methods needed to investigate them from an historical/epigraphic point of view.
Further details and programme can be found here.
Inquiries may be directed to the co-organizer:
Dr. Irene Polinskaya
Department of Classics
King’s College London
University of London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Tel. (0)20 7848 1762/Fax (0)20 7848 2545
irene.polinskaya@kcl.ac.uk
