Lev Shadrin and William Barton had the opportunity to present a paper on digital aspects of the project‘s edition in Athens, at ‘The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches and Perspectives’ workshop. The workshop was organised by the GrECI project and provided participants with both stimulating intellectual input, as well as the chance to exchange informally at the Norwegian Institute in Athens (NIA) in the shadow of the Akropolis.
The workshop explored early modern Hellenism from the perspective of its material culture in the broadest sense. It included consideration of the ways in which the ancient Greek heritage more generally was incorporated in the material culture of early modern Europe through art, architecture, and in other areas of daily life such as dress and book culture.
[Photo from the terrace of the NIA]
Lev and William’s paper reflected on the fact that while digital tools such as Transkribus help us process large volumes of data, as well as efficiently produce structured output, it is still up to the scholar to come up with analytical methodology and derive conclusions from aggregated datasets.
Many thanks to
GrECI and
Norwegian Institute in Athens for organising and hosting this event!
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