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Announcing the last in this Summer's Digital Classicist/ICS work in progress seminar series.

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments and as always, all are welcome.

Friday 17th August at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London

Charles Crowther (Oxford) 'A Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts'

The scholar interpreting an ancient documentary text has a broad range of relevant electronic tools available; but the interaction is largely in one direction and the experience is fragmented by the dispersal of the electronic resources. Decipherment and transcription are scholarly activities that naturally benefit from shared visualisation and multiple perspectives, but the potential of ICT to mediate collaborative investigation has yet to be fully exploited. A VRE for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts is a two-year JISC funded project designed to explore these challenges through the construction of an integrated collaborative environment for the study of ancient documentary artefacts.

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