(With apologies for crossposting: I am sure that both the manuscript examples and the protocols/technologies discussed in this paper will be of great interest to DMists who find themselves anywhere near London this week.)

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007

Friday 8th June at 16:30, in room NG16, Senate House, Malet Street, London

Neel Smith (College of the Holy Cross, MA) 'Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext'

ALL WELCOME

The Homer Multitext project is creating digital resources for studying the Iliad as a textual tradition, including full TEI texts of six MSS, texts of associated scholia, and new photography of some MSS. This talk will survey the technological framework for the Multitext project, and will especially emphasize a tiered design using stable reference schemes (CTS URNs for text passages, and identifiers with data namespaces for objects) in conjunction with defined service protocols (Canonical Text Services, or CTS, for text retrieval, and Collection services for structured information about objects such as manuscripts).

The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.

For more information please contact Gabriel.Bodard@kcl.ac.uk or clyontupman@hotmail.com, or see the seminar website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2007.html