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Digital research in the study of classical antiquity / edited by Gabriel Bodard, Simon Mahony.

Contributor(s): Bodard, Gabriel | Mahony, SimonMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Digital research in the arts and humanitiesPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010. Description: xx, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780754677734 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0754677737 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780754695233 (ebk. : alk. paper); 0754695239 (ebk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Civilization, Classical -- Research -- Methodology | Civilization, Classical -- Research -- Technological innovations | Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching -- Technological innovationsLOC classification: DE15 | .D54 2010
Contents:
Archaeology and geography. Silchester Roman town : developing virtual research practice 1997-2008 / Michael G. Fulford, Emma J. O'Riordan, Amanda Clarke and Michael Rains -- Diversity and reuse of digital resources for ancient Mediterranean material culture / Sebastian Heath -- Space as an artefact : a perspective on 'neogeography' from the digital humanities / Stuart Dunn -- Text and language. Contextual epigraphy and XML : digital publication and its application to the study of inscribed funerary monuments / Charlotte Tupman -- A virtual research environment for the study of documents and manuscripts / Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther, Ruth Kirkham and John Pybus -- One era's nonsense, another's norm : diachronic study of Greek and the computer / Notis Toufexis -- Infrastructure and disciplinary issues. Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext Project / Neel Smith -- Ktêma es aiei : digital permanence from an ancient perspective / Hugh A. Cayless -- Creating a generative learning object (GLO) : working in an 'ill-structured' environment and getting students to think / Eleanor OKell, Dejan Ljubojevic and Cary Macmahon -- The digital classicist : disciplinary focus and interdisciplinary vision / Melissa Terras..
Summary: This text explores the challenges and opportunities presented to classical scholarship by digital practice and resources. It shows that traditionally rigorous scholarship is as central to digital research as it is to mainstream classical studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index.

Archaeology and geography. Silchester Roman town : developing virtual research practice 1997-2008 / Michael G. Fulford, Emma J. O'Riordan, Amanda Clarke and Michael Rains -- Diversity and reuse of digital resources for ancient Mediterranean material culture / Sebastian Heath -- Space as an artefact : a perspective on 'neogeography' from the digital humanities / Stuart Dunn -- Text and language. Contextual epigraphy and XML : digital publication and its application to the study of inscribed funerary monuments / Charlotte Tupman -- A virtual research environment for the study of documents and manuscripts / Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther, Ruth Kirkham and John Pybus -- One era's nonsense, another's norm : diachronic study of Greek and the computer / Notis Toufexis -- Infrastructure and disciplinary issues. Digital infrastructure and the Homer Multitext Project / Neel Smith -- Ktêma es aiei : digital permanence from an ancient perspective / Hugh A. Cayless -- Creating a generative learning object (GLO) : working in an 'ill-structured' environment and getting students to think / Eleanor OKell, Dejan Ljubojevic and Cary Macmahon -- The digital classicist : disciplinary focus and interdisciplinary vision / Melissa Terras..

This text explores the challenges and opportunities presented to classical scholarship by digital practice and resources. It shows that traditionally rigorous scholarship is as central to digital research as it is to mainstream classical studies.