Gregory S. Paulson I. Introduction: The Digital Nestle-Aland Last year at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (San Diego, 2019) Claire Clivaz asked an interesting question during the Q&A portion after my paper on the history of the Nestle-Aland: “When will there be a digital Nestle-Aland?” For… Read more
Claire Clivaz, Mina Monier, and Jonathan Barda DH+ & Core-IT, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Lausanne, CH) The first part of this article investigates the impact of the digital revolution on the landscape of the history of Greek New Testament (NT) editions. [1] Comparing digital… Read more
Elpida Perdiki and Maria Konstantinidou This contribution describes a series of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tests performed on medieval Greek manuscripts and run on Transkribus, a platform for collaboratively transcribing and retrieving historical documents. [1] Transkribus was chosen on the basis of its suitability for… Read more
Elisa Nury and Elena Spadini In this contribution we examine the history of automatic collation, which is the comparison of different copies of a work, to understand how software for this philological task has been (or has not been) integrated within Virtual Research Environments (VREs). We have identified two general… Read more
Simone Zenzaro Improving the current state of Virtual Research Environments (VREs) requires to address the growing complexity of their design and development. To this extent, the focused awareness on three fundamental aspects of VRE design mitigates the difficulties of such a challenge. These features are: continuous update, effectiveness, and interlinking. Read more
Francesca Galli and Elena Nieddu 1. In Codice Ratio In Codice Ratio is a research project that aims to develop novel methods of supporting content analysis and knowledge discovery from large collections of historical documents. The goal is to provide humanities scholars with novel tools to conduct data-driven studies based… Read more
Introduction The interplay between representations of wealth, power, and identity has had a profound impact on historical and contemporary culture. Current political and social movements, including the Black Lives Matter movement, #MeToo, and even the alt-right have created extensive social and political networks which have coalesced around issues of inequality,… Read more
Croatian Renaissance literature has long been considered a cultural pinnacle as relevant in the context of its own time as it was in the subsequent centuries. Comprising a range of diverse authors and original works, it reflected an awareness of both contemporary Western sources and local folklore heritage. The former… Read more
This volume of Classics@ aims to explore and analyze how the present digital turn enables a renewed theoretical engagement with multimodal ancient literacies. Cultural transmission in Antiquity was primarily oral, supplemented by images and texts. Nevertheless, Classicists first employed the term “literacy” in the singular, according to its 19th-century definition: the… Read more
What we propose to examine in this article, taking advantage of our field experience as classicists involved in databases projects about the Ancient Greek and Roman World, is the intersection between a theoretical approach, that of a philologist whose field is the study of texts (including material text media such… Read more
