Digital Classicist London 2016 Seminar

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday June 24th at 16:30 in room 234

*Dr Stuart Dunn (KCL)* *Reading text with GIS:* Different digital lenses for Ancient World Geography

Texts and geography have always gone together, with recent focus on semantic annotation and extraction of place names from texts. This presentation will reflect on how conventional GIS techniques can sit alongside close reading. Using an example from the Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, we will reflect on how GIS methods can be used to interrogate a modern text which describes ancient places. A section of the itinerary in George Jeffery’s Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus (1918) will be “remediated” using landscape analysis functions available in QuantumGIS. We will conclude with some general reflections on the use of GIS methods with textual and other qualitative material.

http://digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016.html

ALL WELCOME

The seminar will also be screencast on the Digital Classicist YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw