Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents...................................................................................vii
Foreword ................................................................................................xiii
Preface......................................................................................................xv
Acknowledgements ..............................................................................xvii
Ross Scaife (1960-2008) .......................................................................xxi
Cyberinfrastructure for Classical Philology..........................................3
Terms and continuities ...................................................................7
Wissenschaft and Philology ...........................................................7
Classics and the Humanities ..........................................................9
Infrastructure .................................................................................12
Classics in 2008..............................................................................14
Digital Incunabula: the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (1972).........22
Machine-actionable knowledge bases: the Perseus Digital
Library (1987)........................................................................26
Digital Communities: Stoa Publishing Consortium (1997) ....29
Cyberinfrastructure .......................................................................31
Producing new knowledge: ePhilology ......................................32
Extending the intellectual reach of humanity: eClassics &
eHumanities...........................................................................41
Bibliography ...................................................................................48
Technology, Collaboration, and Undergraduate Research ..............59
Introduction ...................................................................................59
An Audience of More Than One…...........................................63
When All the Sources Are Online ..............................................68
From Each According…..............................................................75
Shaking the Foundations..............................................................78
Conclusion......................................................................................86
Bibliography ...................................................................................87
Tachypaedia Byzantina: The Suda On Line as Collaborative
Encyclopedia ..................................................................................91
Introduction ...................................................................................91
History of the Project ...................................................................94
Technical and Social Interfaces ...................................................96
SOL and Other Projects.............................................................102
Conclusion....................................................................................106
Bibliography .................................................................................109
Exploring Historical RDF with Heml...............................................113
Introduction .................................................................................114
The Heml Data Model................................................................117
Chronology...................................................................................118
Similar Schemas ...........................................................................119
Visualizations ...............................................................................120
Areas For Improvement.............................................................123
RDF and Heml ............................................................................124
Data-Entry for HemlRDF .........................................................126
RDF-Based Nested Events........................................................126
HemlRDF and the CIDOC-CRM............................................129
Heml\'s Future...............................................................................131
Projected Work............................................................................133
Conclusion....................................................................................134
Acknowledgements .....................................................................134
Bibliography .................................................................................134
Digitizing Latin Incunabula: Challenges, Methods, and
Possibilities ...................................................................................137
Introduction .................................................................................138
Methods ........................................................................................140
Data Entry Methodology ...........................................................144
Possibilities ...................................................................................147
Conclusion....................................................................................149
Bibliography .................................................................................152
Citation in Classical Studies ................................................................153
Overview.......................................................................................153
Changing Technologies and the Fate of Homer\'s
Commentators ....................................................................155
Citation as a Heuristic.................................................................157
Identification: What We Cite.....................................................158
How We Cite Objects.................................................................164
Syntax of a CTS URN................................................................168
Beyond Citation: Architecture...................................................171
Conclusion....................................................................................172
Glossary of Technical Terms and Abbreviations...................172
Bibliography .................................................................................173
Digital Criticism: Editorial Standards for the Homer Multitext ...175
Digital Criticism: Editorial Standards for the Homer
Multitext...............................................................................176
Textual Criticism of an Oral Poem in a Digital Medium......178
The Iliad and Odyssey as Oral Poetry .........................................180
Variation in the Homeric Corpus: Two Examples ................181
Representing Multiformity.........................................................184
Fluidity vs. Rigidity and a Diachronic Approach to
Homeric Poetry...................................................................189
Foundational principles of the Homer Multitext ...................196
Bibliography .................................................................................199
Epigraphy in 2017 ................................................................................205
1. Background ..............................................................................206
1.1 Leiden .....................................................................................209
1.2 Digital Epigraphy Projects...................................................211
1.3 Epidoc.....................................................................................212
2. Digital Leiden...........................................................................215
3. Epigraphical Databases and Digital Publication ................219
4. The Scholar and Digital Texts...............................................221
Bibliography .................................................................................223
Digital Geography and Classics..........................................................225
The View From 2017..................................................................225
The View, Explained (and what we have left out) .................227
The Primacy of Location: A Recent Example Drawn from
Google..................................................................................231
Prelude to Geographic Search: Web-based Mapping............239
Web-mapping the Geographic Content of Texts: Example
of the Perseus Atlas............................................................241
The Geo-Library, the Web and Geographic Search..............242
Big Science, Repositories, Neo-geography and Volunteered
Geographic Information ...................................................246
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative...................................249
The Stoa Waypoint Database and the Register of Ancient
Geographic Entities ...........................................................249
The Pleiades Project....................................................................252
Conclusion....................................................................................255
Bibliography .................................................................................256
What Your Teacher Told You is True: Latin Verbs Have Four
Principal Parts ..............................................................................265
Introduction .................................................................................266
Benefits..........................................................................................267
A Realizational KATR Theory for Latin.................................268
The Conjugation-1 Verb laudāre \"Praise\"...............................269
The VerbA Node.........................................................................272
The Verb Node............................................................................274
Auxiliary Nodes ...........................................................................274
The Sandhi Node.........................................................................277
Strategies for Building KATR Theories...................................278
An Implicative KATR Theory for Latin .................................279
The Paradigm Chart....................................................................279
Deriving the Essence of the Paradigm.....................................284
Principal Parts ..............................................................................286
Grouping.......................................................................................290
Generating a KATR Theory......................................................292
Conclusion....................................................................................294
Acknowledgments .......................................................................295
Glossary ........................................................................................295
Bibliography .................................................................................296
Computational Linguistics and Classical Lexicography .................299
Where are we now? .....................................................................302
Where do we want to be?...........................................................304
How do we get there? .................................................................308
Word Sense Induction................................................................308
Word Sense Disambiguation .....................................................312
Parsing...........................................................................................314
Beyond the lexicon......................................................................317
Searching by word sense ............................................................318
Searching by selectional preference..........................................319
Conclusion....................................................................................319
Bibliography .................................................................................320
Classics in the Million Book Library .................................................325
Introduction .................................................................................327
From Curated Collections to Dynamic Corpora....................331
Services for the humanities in very large collections .............338
Fourth-Generation Collections .................................................342
The Classical Apographeme...........................................................347
Three Technical Challenges .......................................................351
Conclusion....................................................................................356
Appendix: Sample Page Images ................................................356
Primary Sources ...........................................................................356
Editions of Fragmentary Authors and Works ........................364
Reference works ..........................................................................365
Bibliography .................................................................................374
Conclusion: Cyberinfrastructure, the Scaife Digital Library and
Classics in a Digital age...............................................................377
Opportunities: ePhilology and eClassics..................................380
ePhilology and Memographies ..................................................382
eClassics and Plato’s Challenge .................................................390
Classics and Cyberinfrastructure...............................................393
Services for eClassics ..................................................................397
Metrical Analysis..........................................................................402
Collections for ePhilology..........................................................405
Publication for a Cyberinfrastructure.......................................416
Archives, Libraries and Intellectual Discourse .......................416
Features of Publication in a Digital World..............................423
The Scaife Digital Library (SDL) ..............................................426
The Work of Scholarship: New Divisions of Labor in the
world of Google and Wikipedia.......................................430
Conclusion: Blood for the Shades ............................................439
Bibliography .................................................................................441
Author Biographies ..............................................................................449
Index.......................................................................................................457