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ICS02: 3. Geographic annotation
Thursday January 24, 16:00 UK = 18:00 EET
Convenors: Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Boğaziçi University), Sinai Rusinek (Haifa University) and Valeria Vitale (Institute of Classical Studies) and (tba)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/BuC9FF3HdhA
Slides: tba
This seminar will discuss the annotation of historical text from a spatial perspective, and how such analysis can enhance our understanding and contextualisation of ancient events. The seminar will introduce Recogito, an online platform (developed by Pelagios) that enables annotation of text (and images) and the geo-resolution of the place references against a number of historical gazetteers (including the Pleiades Gazetteer of the Ancient World), and the visualisation of such annotations in a map-based interface. Two of the speakers will share their experience with the use of Recogito, discussing its practical application as a means to support the creation of a new historical gazetteer from the annotation of an historical text, and as teaching tool to engage the students with historical documents and resources.
The seminar will conclude with a brief demo of Recogito, that will cover its main functionalities, and will suggest possible workflows with other free tools.
- Rainer Simon, Elton Barker, et al. (2015). “Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with Recogito.” e-Perimetron, 10.2, pp. 49–59. Available: http://oro.open.ac.uk/43613/1/Simon_et_al.pdf
- Gloria Mugelli, et al. (2016). "A User-Centred Design to Annotate Ritual Facts in Ancient Greek Tragedies." BICS 59.2, 103–120. Available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12041.x
- Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Chris and Isaksen, Leif (2010). Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA). Leeds International Classical Studies 9 (2010) article no. 1. Available: http://oro.open.ac.uk/20528/
- Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen et al. (2013), “On using a digital resources for the study of an ancient greek text: the case of Herodotus’ Histories”, in Stuart Dunn and Simon Mahony (eds.), The Digital Classicist 2013. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement (122), Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, pp. 45-62, Available: http://oro.open.ac.uk/34498/8/Barker_etal2013_Hestia_BICS.pdf
- Tom Elliott and Sean Gillies, “Digital Geography and Classics”, Digital Humanities Quarterly 2009 3.1, Available: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000031/000031.html
- Ryan Horne, “Beyond Maps as Images at the Ancient World Mapping Center”, ISAW Papers 7.9 (2014). Available: http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/horne/
- Palladino C., 2016. "New Approaches to Ancient Spatial Models: Digital Humanities and Classical Geography." BICS 59.2, 56-70. Available: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12038.x/full
- Maxim Romanov, "A DH Exercise: Mapping the Greco-Roman World." 2015. Available: http://maximromanov.github.io/2015/04-02.html
- Walter Scheidel (2013), “The shape of the Roman World”, in Princeton/Stanford working papers in Classics. Available: http://orbis.stanford.edu/assets/Scheidel_59.pdf
- Valeria Vitale & Gabriel Bodard. 2017. "Cross-cultural After-Life of Classical Sites." Talking Humanities October 2017. Available: https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/10/19/cross-cultural-after-life-of-classical-sites/
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Select a text you are familiar with, or you have an interest in, and upload it on Recogito. If you are working with other colleagues, decide together what aspect of the text are you interested in highlighting and exploring in your annotations. If you want to annotate persons and events, consider citing external URIs (from a prosopography or wikidata) for disambiguation, using the "comments" field in the annotation pop up. Look at the map-visualisation of your annotation and check that they are adequate and correct. Analyse the spatial distribution of the annotations and discuss with your colleagues and/or instructor what new insight the spatial perspective and the annotation process have given you on the text.
Now that you have read the text closely, try experimenting with the relations function in Recogito. Focus on a specific topic or aspect that could be expressed via relationships. Create a simple graph of the kind of concepts and categories you intend to connect, and how they relate to each other.
Optional: Download the relations you have created in the text in the nodes and edges format (two files, in data table format). Upload them in Gephi (if you don't have the software already you can download it at https://gephi.org/users/download/), and tweak the network visualisation, following the simple tutorial at: http://www.martingrandjean.ch/gephi-introduction (sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3).
- Example shared document: Anabasis 1