Schedule – Deconstructing the Open Greek & Latin Project: The First Thousand Years of Greek

This is a one-day workshop on January 3, 2018. There will be a follow-up discussion and happy hour for participants on January 4. Attendance on Thursday is welcome, but not mandatory.

Subject to change.

January 3, 2018

Presented by the Forum for Classics, Libraries and Scholarly Communication of the Society for Classical Studies.

Information on our presenters and organizers.

Materials and Resources for participants.

Eaton Hall 206

Morning

9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Coffee and light refreshments

9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Deconstructing the Purpose

Open Greek and Latin project (OGL) overview and partnerships – Greg Crane, University of Leipzig and Tufts University

First Thousand Years of Greek – Lenny Muellner, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

9:45 – 10:30 a.m. Creating Digital Humanists

CHS Interns and Digital Publications – Lenny Mueller, Angelia Hanhardt, Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), Harvard

Interns and the Curricula – Lucie Stylianopoulos, Katelin Mikos, University of Virginia; Creating Digital Humanists – Chiara Palladino, University of Leipzig

Becoming a Digital Humanist in Graduate School – Patrick Burns, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW-NYU)

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Teamwork, Deconstructed

These presentations will walk the participants through the First Thousand Years of Greek process, introducing them to the editing work and environment for the afternoon practicum.

Bibliographies, Metadata, and Schemata – Alison Babeu, Tufts University

Greek OCR and the LACE tool – Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison University

CTS, EpiDoc, Capitains – Lenny Mueller, Angelia Hanhardt, Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), Harvard

Looking ahead: The Scaife Viewer – James Tauber, Eldarion

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch

Afternoon

Greek and Latin Unleashed: Break-out sessions & Hands-on editing

Participants will work with a member of the worksop team to edit selected texts in the First Thousand Years of Greek process including correcting OCR results, accessing the GitHub repository, and editing XML texts in Oxygen.

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. GitHub setup for hands-on editing – Patrick Burns (ISAW-NYU)

2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Introduction to modules

Editing in the First 1K Greek – Lenny Mueller and Angelia Hanhardt with Dan Cline, CHS

Correcting OCR – Bruce Robertson, Mount Allison University

Text Alignment – Chiara Palladino, University of Leipzig

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Pick a module – breakout sessions (choose one)

Editing in the First Thousand Years of Greek – led by Lenny Muellner

Correcting OCR – led by Bruce Robertson

Text Alignment – led by Chiara Palladino

4:30 p.m. Wrap Up

Participants will present their results and assess the scalability of the project as a “citizen-science” approach to digital humanities.