Ε11. Digital Technologies in papyri and manuscripts

    Instructor: Stamatis Bousses (coordinator)

    Elective, Teaching Period C, ECTS: 3,

    Description

    The course offers a modular interdisciplinary approach that focuses on completing the knowledge and developing the skills needed to utilize the link between Papyrology and Paleography and computer science. The course aims at training and know-how in those fields related to the management of the text carriers and the texts themselves, such as those found in papyri and manuscripts.

    Target learning outcomes

    1. They will learn how to find texts on papyri and manuscripts and analyze them, in order to develop and answer research questions and understand remote research techniques and methods.
    2.  They will gain supervision in the field of digital Papyrology and Paleography and technical skills and abilities that enable the treatment, preservation, dissemination and use of these primary sources in digital media.
    3. Will be able to locate primary and secondary papyrus and palaeographic sources on the internet and in libraries and use these sources to evaluate and determine how papyriologists and palaeographers use them to compose and deepen their analyses.
    4. They will specialize in the use of different techniques and types of digital data representation, in digital technologies for the processing of different types of data and will evaluate these theoretical approaches and methodologies in terms of their epistemological and practical adequacy.
    5. Utilize the potential of specific data types and data sets and apply their knowledge to identify how systematic data collection can influence the understanding and analysis of papyrus and manuscript collections.
    6. They will have the opportunity to think critically about the ways of collecting, analyzing and editing the data of Papyrology and Paleography.

    Prerequistes

    None

    Contents

    1ο Lecture (Grace Ioannidou): Introduction to Papyrology and Paleography and their digital tools.

    2ο Lecture (Stamatis Bouses): Digitization of papyri and manuscripts (visualization, restoration, representation), creation and processing of images and management of digital collection.

    3ο Lecture (Raimondo Tocci): Digital coding: the description of the object and its digital recording (requirements for metadata, special categories such as papyrus files, bibliographic notes and page comments).

    4ο Lecture (Maria Konstantinidou): Digital Paleography. Image enhancement techniques. Mechanical reading of manuscripts (HTR).

    5ο Lecture (Stamatis Bouses- Maria Konstantinidou): From manuscript to edition. Collatio and digital editions.

    Teaching Method: Each Instructor according to the needs of the course.

    Assessment Method: Weekly Project of developing essays or final written project.

    Bibliography

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