Search results for " Digital Humanities"
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Why are there no comprehensively digital scholarly editions of classical texts?
2018
Currently, no 'canonical' classical text with a multi-testimonial tradition has a digital scholarly edition based on a complete digital transcription of all primary sources, and on the automated collation of those transcriptions. Most classicists simply do not feel that they need such editions. I argue that this is ultimately due to the 'canonization' of the corpus of classical texts. Classicists are more focussed on the 'Text' than on the documents (manuscripts) and their texts: they tend not to consider the textual variance in the manuscripts as culturally meaningful in itself, but merely instrumental in view of the constitutio textus. I suspect that we will not have 'comprehensively digi…
Transcribing the "Estoria de Espanna" using crowdsourcing: Strategies and aspirations
2015
This paper examines the specific strategies for recruitment and retention of volunteer transcribers in use in two collaborative transcription projects: Transcribe Bentham (University College, London) and the Estoria de Espanna Digital Project (University of Birmingham). The aim of the paper is to review the strategies used by Transcribe Bentham, a more mature crowdsourced electronic transcription project, with a view to informing the strategies put into place in the Estoria project, which has started transcribing using crowdsourcing more recently. The paper discusses the difficulties faced by crowdsourced electronic transcription projects and how these have been and are being resolved in th…
La vita dopo la rivoluzione
2020
After what we can call "Digital Revolution" we need to redefine our approach to technologies and science. We need a new cultural approach to technologies.
Metodi digitali per l'insegnamento classico e umanistico
2020
Il volume propone una riflessione critica di carattere metodologico su alcuni strumenti e tecniche digitali per l'insegnamento scolastico ed universitario in ambito umanistico, con un'attenzione particolare alla didattica delle lingue, letterature e culture classiche. Per ciascuno strumento digitale, si valuta se esso comporti un effettivo miglioramento dal punto di vista dei metodi, alla luce di alcuni obiettivi e principi educativi generali: sono presentate e discusse solo innovazioni digitali che, in chiave costruttivista, rendano l'apprendimento più attivo, più critico, più creativo e più orientato verso un contributo positivo alla società. Una serie di proposte didattiche accompagna la…
ALIM (Archivio della Latinità Medievale dItalia). Storia, attualità, prospettive di una banca-dati di testi mediolatini
2019
Nella prima parte dell'articolo (paragrafi 1-3), Edoardo D'Angelo ha scritto sulla storia e gli obiettivi di ALIM. La seconda parte dell'articolo (paragrafi 4-10), scritta da Paolo Monella, discute gli aspetti informatico-umanistici della transizione del progetto ALIM da una codifica procedurale (HTML) e proprietaria dei testi e dei loro metadati a standard descrittivi (TEI XML) e open source, e propone in chiusura una riflessione sui modelli di collaborazione tra umanisti, umanisti informatici e informatici all'interno del progetto. In the first part of this article (paragraphs 1-3), Edoardo D'Angelo wrote about the history and goals of ALIM. In the second part (paragraphs 4-10), Paolo Mon…
"… But What Should {I} Put in a Digital Apparatus?" {A} Not-So-Obvious Choice: New Types of Digital Scholarly Editions
2017
We propose to develop / expand the concept of “digital edition of a text”. The specific value of a digital edition is not only in the digital form of representation of textual information: dynamic rather than static, resulting in better visual or practical usability, but it mainly lays in the ability to work with computational methods on the text and on the information it conveys. Therefore the digital edition of a text should aim to provide adequate data and functionality to further forms of processing. Hence the idea that the “digital scholarly edition” until now often identified with the “digital critical edition”, can also take other forms focused on other types of ‘scholarly research’:…
Towards a digital model to edit the different paratextuality levels within a textual tradition
2008
In the textual tradition of a literary work, our sources (manuscripts, printed books etc.) commonly bear, together with the "main text", different kinds of "paratexts" commenting on it (including interlinear annotations, glosses, scholia, footnotes, modern scholarly introductions and commentaries, and many others). This article proposes a unified model for a document-based digital critical edition including both the 'main texts' and the 'paratexts' as they appear in different single sources. The problematic aspects of such an "enlarged" digital edition are discussed, including the relations between the different 'paratexts' and the 'main text' they refer to 'within each single textual sourc…
Are tools all we need? Digital Humanities in the time of its institutionalisation
2011
Three key features of the Digital Humanities today are its quantitative growth, its institutionalisation and its definition as a discipline. In the first part of this article (2. Institutional models) I shall pinpoint some models of institutionalisation that are emerging in the international scenario. Against this background, I shall then discuss (3. Tools) some concepts central to Digital Humanities’ self-definition, such as those of practice, ‘building’, centre, project, product and tools, particularly questioning the opinion that the creation of friendly digital tools is the key issue in the future of the field. I shall finally suggest that ‘instrumentalism’, ‘project fever’ and an exces…
El arte de poesía castellana. Desde el pensamiento poético de Encina hacia una colección digital de tratados poéticos
2017
This paper presents the project Poetriae, focusing on the steps already taken and on the ongoing work, as well as on its methods and future steps. Mainly, Poetriae aims at building a digital library of Medieval and Golden Age Castilian poetry treatises. It will create digital editions for them, by philologically marking up each metrical and poetic concept in an unambiguous way, in order to allow treatises to be retrievable not just by bibliographic metadata, but also by key concepts, such as poetic genre, stanza types, rhyme, etc. The project also intends to enable automatic analysis and visualizations of such data. Design and application of specific vocabularies for poetry and metrics are …
Forme del testo digitale
2017
L'articolo costituisce una riflessione sulla modellizzazione dei testi appartenenti alla nostra tradizione culturale in questa fase aurorale della Filologia Digitale e parte dalla domanda: che "forma" stiamo dando ai nostri testi? Vengono asplorati tre aspetti per cui i nostri modelli testuali riflettono i nostri presupposti culturali e tecnologici: in primo luogo, il modello gerarchico OHCO che sta alla base di TEI XML; in secondo luogo, il modello sequenziale alfabetico basato sulla stampa delle lingue occidentali, che sta alla base di Unicode. Un terzo aspetto, poi, è il meno esplorato nella ricerca: protocolli per la citazione testuale come CITE/CTS sono basati su corpora specifici. Per…