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This volume presents case studies in classical and Byzantine research that exemplify practices, structures and standards in open data which transform and subvert historical scholarship. It leverages new data publication methods and embeds them as part of its argument, exploring the potential of non-linear discourse, multimedia content and data visualisation. Individual chapters illustrate how open scholarship enables a shift from authority-based interpretative frameworks to transparent, collaborative approaches, and combining datasets allows for analysis and comparisons at unprecedented scales, empowers researchers and elicits creative and original responses to old and new research questions.
Collaborative practices and data models lead historians to reflect rigorously and openly on assumptions, definitions and biases, encouraging more diverse approaches to interpretation of ancient sources. The different perspectives, methodologies, disciplines and research questions showcased in this book highlight the role of open data and code in the pursuit of historical research questions and the creation of new knowledge. It demonstrates that methods like linked open data, open licensing, documentation of standards and the publication of code influence the development of open data, tools and workflows, and are in turn nourished by a rich, sustainable classical open data ecosystem.
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Introduction
Valeria Vitale and Gabriel Bodard -
1 Historical authority and the prosopography of the Byzantine world: from factoids to assertions
Tara Andrews -
2 Connecting late antiquities: challenges and opportunities for prosopographical data
Charlotte Tupman & Richard Flower -
3 Venetian officals in sixteenth-century Cyprus: An online database and a pilgrimage account
Tassos Papacostas -
4 Connections through collections: linking archaeological and epigraphic archives through places and people
Alessandra Giovenco & Nurdan Atalan -
5 Engraving the soil: the challenges of defining spatial footprints in Cypriot cultural heritage
Stuart Dunn -
6 You can’t step into the same dataset twice: iterative improvement through reuse of open Libyan place data
Valeria Vitale -
7 The makeup of Ajax: reconstructing networks of interpretation through the commentary tradition
Matteo Romanello & Charles Pletcher -
8 Traces of lost libraries in the works of Alexandrian and Byzantine scholars: bibliographic open data from antiquity to Wikimedia
Monica Berti -
9 Digital epigraphy at Dura-Europos: toward a FAIR-er inscriptional corpus
Anne Hunnell Chen, Carl R. Rice, Ilaria Bucci & Jennifer A. Baird -
10 Reception of Sapphic language in Hadrianic verse epigraphy: building on open philological data
Gabriel Bodard & Marja Vierros -
12 The next decade of Byzantine sigillography: the impact of open data as collaboration
Martina Filosa, Alessio Sopracasa & Jonathan Shea