Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications

As part of the Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminar

Convenors: Claudia Sode (Universität zu Köln), Alessio Sopracasa (Sorbonne Université), Olivier Delouis (CNRS-Collège de France/MFO)


PROGRAMME

9:30 Introduction

Session 1 – Modelling data in Byzantium and beyond

10:00–10:50 Charlotte Tupman (Exeter): TEI modeling of the new PLRE

10:50–11:40 Martina Filosa (Cologne), Claes Neuefeind (Cologne), Claudia Sode (Cologne), and Alessio Sopracasa (Paris): A search engine for Byzantine sigillography

11:40–12:30 Jonathan Prag (Oxford): Modelling data integration in ancient epigraphy: the FAIR Epigraphy ontology and related projects

12:30–14:00 Lunch break

Session 2 – Visualizing text, images, and connections

14:00–14:50 Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim): Computational approaches to Byzantine Greek

14:50–15:40 Sviatoslav Drach (Cologne): Imaging techniques (3D, RTI) and semantic annotations for Byzantine seals

15:40–16:30 Dominic Oldman (London): Ontology and data modelling for Greek manuscripts collections

16:30–16:50 Coffee break

Session 3 – Artificial intelligence applied to text-bearing objects

16:50–17:40 Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (Basel): AI and the paleography of Greek and Byzantine papyri

17:40–18:30 Joe Sheppard (Oxford), and Marguerite Spoerri Butcher (Oxford): EpiDoc-based and AI-aided edition of coins

18:30–19:20 Round table and open discussion moderated by Charlotte Roueché (London)

19:20–19:30 Concluding remarks

20:00 Dinner for invited speakers