This article is a report about the progress and current status of the World Historical Gazetteer (whgazetteer.org) (WHG) in the context of its value for helping to organize and record digital and paleographic information. It summarizes the development and functionality of the WHG as a software platform for connecting specialist collections of historical place names. It also reviews the idea of places as entities (rather than simple objects with single labels). It also explains the utility of gazetteers in digital library infrastructure and describes potential future developments.
A digital gazetteer records information associated with specific places. This lesson teaches you how to create a gazetteer from a historical text, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.
The article presents the main tools and methods applied in the creation of the Telamon database of the ancient Greek inscriptions from Bulgaria encoded in TEI XML. The work so far on the project is reported, the modifications to the existing services are enumerated and some future perspectives are discussed.
In this paper, the history, purpose and importance of the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Greek Epigraphy Project are discussed.
The paper presents the corpus of the Inscriptions of Georgia, a result of a PhD research project at the Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. The database, built using the EpiDoc Front-End Services (EFES) platform, combines the EpiDoc editions of hundreds of inscriptions unearthed in Georgia, and published in print during the 18th-20th centuries. The paper outlines the main issues addressed during the creation of the database and the encoding of the inscriptions. It illustrates the core features of the corpus, with an emphasis on the advantages of the digital edition of the epigraphic monuments with the TEI-EpiDoc standard and the EFES platform.
Up till recently, the arabic inscriptions from the whole Islamic world, from the beginning of islam until 800 h., were collected in the famous Répertoire Chronologique d'Épigraphie Arabe (RCEA), edited by the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo. Eighteen volumes have been published collecting more than 7000 inscriptions, all in arabic. The development of new technologies gives new possibilities for describing inscriptions, and especially for a rapid recovery of words, dates etc. between thousands and thousands of inscriptions. That is the reason why the concept of the old project was updated and a new project, called Thesaurus d'Épigraphie Islamique, was developed and is described in this article. The goal is now to collect not only inscriptions in arabic but also in persian and turkish, up till the year 1000 h. By looking at this new system adapted to the possibilities given by computer, one can appreciate the rich and varied aspects of Islamic epigraphy in the Middle Ages.
In 2001, Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) accepted a substantial donation of Roman Republican coins. The work to catalog, house, digitize, describe, and present this collection online provided unique challenges for the institution. Coins are often seen as museum objects; however, they can serve pedagogical purposes within libraries. In the quest to innovate, RUL digitized coins from seven angles to provide a 180-degree view of coins. However, this strategy had its drawbacks; it had to be reassessed as the project continued. RUCore, RUL’s digital repository, uses Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS). Accordingly, it was necessary to adapt numismatic description to bibliographic metadata standards.With generous funding from the Loeb Foundation, the resulting digital collection of 1200 coins was added to RUCore from 2012 to 2018. Rutgers’s Badian Roman Coins Collection serves as an exemplar of numismatics in a library environment that is freely available to all on the Web.
The two case studies here collected provide the occasion for presenting the research work carried out by The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens Project, focused on the relationship between public epigraphy and urban spaces in ancient Athens. The first part, by Chiara Lasagni, focuses on the honorary decrees and statues voted by the Athenian Demos in the years 287-262, and attempts to outline some key coordinates about the epigraphic and ideological landscape produced after the revolt from Demetrius. The second part, by Stefano Tropea, deals with the evolution of the epigraphical landscape of the Athenian asty in the decades from the battle of Pydna of 168 to the second half of the I c. BC.
The Hesperia project is being currently developed at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It is a digitization project aiming at producing an electronic corpus of all the inscriptions in Greek and pre-Roman languages from ancient Hispania (Spain and Portugal). It also includes all the onomastic records in the pre-Roman languages of that area. This paper provides a general overview of the project with some examples of the various types of files used in it. It also mentions future developments of the electronic corpus and directions of research.
<p>This edited volume collects together peer-reviewed papers that initially emanated from presentations at Digital Classicist seminars and conference panels.</p><p>This wide-ranging volume showcases exemplary applications of digital scholarship to the ancient world and critically examines the many challenges and opportunities afforded by such research. The chapters included here demonstrate innovative approaches that drive forward the research interests of both humanists and technologists while showing that rigorous scholarship is as central to digital research as it is to mainstream classical studies.</p><p>As with the earlier Digital Classicist publications, our aim is not to give a broad overview of the field of digital classics; rather, we present here a snapshot of some of the varied research of our members in order to engage with and contribute to the development of scholarship both in the fields of classical antiquity and Digital Humanities more broadly.</p> , <p>This wide-ranging volume is a collection of papers that initially emanated from presentations at Digital Classicist seminars and conference panels and showcases exemplary applications of digital scholarship to the ancient world. It critically examines the many challenges and opportunities afforded by such research and offers a snapshot of some of the varied work that is being undertaken by Digital Classicist members at the nexus of digital research and classical studies.</p>
Recent years have seen an exponential growth (+98% in 2022 w.r.t. the previous year) of the number of research articles in the few-shot learning field, which aims at training machine learning models with extremely limited available data. The research interest toward few-shot learning systems for Named Entity Recognition (NER) is thus at the same time increasing. NER consists in identifying mentions of pre-defined entities from unstructured text, and serves as a fundamental step in many downstream tasks, such as the construction of Knowledge Graphs, or Question Answering. The need for a NER system able to be trained with few-annotated examples comes in all its urgency in domains where the annotation process requires time, knowledge and expertise (e.g., healthcare, finance, legal), and in low-resource languages. In this survey, starting from a clear definition and description of the few-shot NER (FS-NER) problem, we take stock of the current state-of-the-art and propose a taxonomy which divides algorithms in two macro-categories according to the underlying mechanisms: model-centric and data-centric. For each category, we line-up works as a story to show how the field is moving toward new research directions. Eventually, techniques, limitations, and key aspects are deeply analyzed to facilitate future studies.
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