Exploring manuscripts: sharing ancient wisdoms across the semantic web

Recent work in digital humanities has seen researchers in-creasingly producing online editions of texts and manuscripts, particularly in adoption of the TEI XML format for online publishing. The benefits of semantic web techniques are un-derexplored in such research, however, with a lack of sharing and communication of research information. The Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) project applies linked data prac-tices to enhance and expand on what is possible with these digital text editions. Focussing on Greek and Arabic col-lections of ancient wise sayings, which are often related to each other, we use RDF to annotate and extract seman-tic information from the TEI documents as RDF triples. This allows researchers to explore the conceptual networks that arise from these interconnected sayings. The SAWS project advocates a semantic-web-based methodology, en-hancing rather than replacing current workflow processes, for digital humanities researchers to share their findings and collectively benefit from each other’s work

Reusing modern tools and techniques to reproduce and research ancient texts

The Sharing Ancient Wisdoms project (SAWS) is establishing a research workflow of editing, linking and publishing semantically-enhanced TEI/XML-based digital editions of ancient manuscripts that contain wise sayings. Of particular research interest is the ability to investigate links between these manuscripts. Digital edition creation, storage, annotation and, most recently, the adding of RDF and Linked Data are hot topics in digital humanities research, making SAWS workflows and supporting technologies highly transferable. Updating and maintaining published files, currently stored in a web filestore, has become troublesome. Additionally, the lengthy, involved procedures of transcribing and editing manuscripts have caused delays. More intuitive interfaces for editing and annotating files would be helpful. Scholars studying manuscripts in right-to-left (RTL) languages have also reported difficulties working with standard XML editors. In this work we explore if SAWS's research workflows can be made more efficient and intuitive through the use of repository tools developed within Islandora for the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) research project

Computer-Assisted Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages

The production of digital critical editions of texts using TEI is now a widely-adopted procedure within digital humanities. The work described in this paper extends this approach to the publication of gnomologia (anthologies of wise sayings) , which formed a widespread literary genre in many cultures of the medieval Mediterranean. These texts are challenging because they were rarely copied straightforwardly ; rather , sayings were selected , reorganised , modified or re-attributed between manuscripts , resulting in a highly interconnected corpus for which a standard approach to digital publication is insufficient. Focusing on Greek and Arabic collections , we address this challenge using semantic web techniques to create an ecosystem of texts , relationships and annotations , and consider a new model – organic , collaborative , interconnected , and open-ended – of what constitutes an edition. This semantic web-based approach allows scholars to add their own materials and annotations to the network of information and to explore the conceptual networks that arise from these interconnected saying

Capacity Enhancement in Digital Humanities in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Training and Beyond

This first discussion paper, produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community in the two countries and beyond, summarises the findings of a) the first workshop organised by the network and b) the post-workshop survey and offers recommendations based on these findings

Communicating the Value and Impact of Digital Humanities in Teaching, Research, and Infrastructure Development

This is the second discussion paper produced by the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Network in consultation with the wider Digital Humanities (DH) Community in the two countries and beyond. It summarises the findings of the second workshop organised by the network, and offers recommendations based on these findings

Death and commemoration in Roman Iberia : a contextual study of the barrel-shaped and semi-cylindrical tomb monuments

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