Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday June 30, 2017 at 16:30 in room 234

Two short presentations:

1) *The role of Digital Humanities in Papyrology: Practices and user needs in papyrological research* Lucia Vannini (Institute of Classical Studies)

The development of digital tools and methods has led to significant changes to traditional research in the Humanities, affecting scholars’ ways of organising and analysing information. Also, the wish to support researchers’ new needs has consequently grown: examinations of their practices have been conducted in order to build efficient and usable resources. This presentation focuses on the information I have gathered, through interviews and user observations, on the behaviour of papyrologists in the digital age: on their practices involved in searching digital collections, in the use and management of their data, and in the creation of new knowledge.

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017-05lv.html ————————————————————————————————————

2) *Cultural Contact in Early Roman Spain through Linked Open Data resources* Paula Granados García (Open University)

Although the Romanisation debate seems to be settled in English-language scholarship, other countries, such as Spain, have only just started to revise traditional discourses. During the 1900s, Spanish studies on Romanisation focused mainly on documentation of the immense amount of evidence from the Imperial perspective. This work is being re-examined through new methodologies and perspectives. Novel initiatives are emerging that aim to look at this cultural encounter from the eyes of the colonised. My research explores the possibilities offered by Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web to connect, share and make available large amounts of data regarding the question of cultural interaction.

http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017-05pgg.html ————————————————————————————————————

*Both seminars will be livecast on YouTube at https://youtu.be/-hL2bKOVeos *

ALL WELCOME