Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to attend the conference and workshops
Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond

Leipzig, November 4-6, 2015
Hashtag: #DHEgypt15
Annotated Corpora | 3D | Input of Hieroglyphics, Demotic, Greek, Coptic

Felix-Klein-Hörsaal, Paulinum (4th floor)
Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany


http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/dhegypt15/
http://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/aegyptisches-museum/veranstaltungen/2015.html


Wednesday, November 4

Presentations

08:30-09:30 – Registration
09:30-10:15 – Welcome (Monica Berti and Franziska Naether)
                        Keynote (Gregory R. Crane)

Research Area 1: How to Structure and Organize Data? Workflow
Chair: Felicitas Weber
10:15-10:45 – Simon Schweitzer (Berlin): The Text Encoding Software of the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
10:45-11:15 – Frank Feder (Göttingen): Cataloguing and editing Coptic Biblical texts in an online database system
11:15-11:45 – Tom Gheldof (Leuven): Trismegistos: identifying and aggregating metadata of Ancient World texts

11:45-12:00 – Coffee Break

12:00-12:30 – Stephan Seidlmayer (Berlin/Kairo): Medienuniversum Aswan
12:30-13:00 – Monica Berti, Franziska Naether, Julia Jushaninowa, Giuseppe G.A. Celano, Polina Yordanova (Leipzig/New York): The Digital Rosetta Stone: textual alignment and linguistic annotation

13:00-15:00 – Lunch Break and time for individual appointments

15:00-15:30 – Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Stefan Beyer, Nina Wagenknecht (Göttingen/Leipzig): Annotating figurative language: Another perspective for digital Altertumswissenschaften
15:30-16:00 – Jochen Tiepmar (Leipzig): Release of the MySQL based implementation of the CTS protocol

16:00-16:15 – Coffee Break

Chair: Holger Essler
16:15-16:45 – Simon Schweitzer (Berlin), Simone Gerhards (Mainz): Auf dem Weg zu einem TEI-Austauschformat für ägyptisch-koptische Texte
16:45-17:15 – Lajos Berkes (Heidelberg): Integrating Greek, Coptic and Arabic in the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
17:15-17:45 – Nicola Reggiani (Heidelberg/Parma): The Corpus of Greek Medical Papyri and Digital Papyrology: new perspectives from an ongoing project
18:15-19:30 – Public Lecture introduced by Monica Berti and Franziska Naether (Hörsaal 8):
– Keynote by Gregory R. Crane
– Felix Schäfer (DAI Berlin, IANUS): Ein länges Leben für Deine Daten!

19:30 – Reception in the Egyptian Museum, Kroch-Hochhaus, Goethestraße 2
Welcome address by Dietrich Raue, Buffet, Get together, short guided tours
(by Dietrich Raue and Franziska Naether)

Thursday, November 5

Presentations

Chair: Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
09:15-09:45 – Marc Brose, Josephine Hensel, Gunnar Sperveslage, (Leipzig/Berlin): Von Champollion bis Erman – Lexikographiegeschichte im Digitalen Zeitalter, Projekt “Altägyptische Wörterbücher im Verbund”
09:45-10:15 – Lucia Vannini (London): Virtual reunification of papyrus fragments
10:15-10:45 – Matthias Schulz (Leipzig): What remains behind – on the virtual reconstruction of dismembered manuscripts

10:45-11:00 – Coffee Break

Research Area 2: Which Fields of Research are Relevant? Established and Emerging Use Cases
11:00-11:30 – Anne Herzberg (Berlin): Prosopographia Memphitica. Individuelle Identitäten und Kollektive Biographien einer Residenzstadt des Neuen Reiches
11:30-12:00 – Felicitas Weber (Swansea): The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: Second Millennium BCE
12:00-12:30 – Holger Essler, Vincenzo Damiani (Würzburg): Anagnosis – automatisierte Buchstabenverknüpfung von Transkript und Papyrusabbildung

12:30-14:30 – Lunch Break and time for individual appointments

Chair: Simon Schweitzer
14:30-15:00 – So Miyagawa (Göttingen/Kyoto): An Intuitive Unicode Input Method for Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing: Applying the Input Technology of the Japanese Writing System
15:00-15:30 – Mark-Jan Nederhof (St. Andrews): OCR of hand-written transcriptions of hieroglyphic text
15:30-16:00 – Claudia Maderna-Sieben, Fabian Wespi, Jannik Korte (Heidelberg): Deciphering Demotic Digitally

16:00-16:15 – Coffee Break

16:15-16:45 – Christopher Waß (München): Demotisch, Hieratisch und SQL: Ein Beispiel für die Anwendung von DH in der Ägyptologie

Research Area 3: How to Train Next Generations? Teaching
16:45-17:15 – Julia Jushaninowa (Leipzig): E-learning Kurs “Verarbeitung digitaler Daten in der Ägyptologie”

Research Area 4: How to Impact Society? Citizen Science and Public Engagement
17:15-17:45 – Usama Gad (Heidelberg/Cairo): The Digital Challenges and Chances: The Case of Papyri and Papyrology in Egypt
17:45-18:15 – Aris Legowski (Bonn): The Project is completed! What now? The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead – A Digital Textzeugenarchiv

19:00 – Dinner at “Pascucci”

Friday, November 6
Workshops

10:00-10:15 – Introduction to workshops

10:15-12:15 – Workshops

Workshop 1: Disruptive Technologies: Feature on 3D in Egyptian Archaeology
(Chair: Felix Schäfer)
short 10-min-presentations by:
Hassan Aglan (Luxor): 3D tombs modeling by simple tools
Rebekka Pabst (Mainz): Neue Bilder, neue Möglichkeiten. Chancen für die Ägyptologie durch das 3D-Design
Room: Seminar Room next to Felix-Klein-Hörsaal

Workshop 2 – Annotated Corpora: Trends and Challenges
(Chair : tba)
Room: Felix-Klein-Hörsaal

12:15-13:00 – Summary and final Discussion, Outlook

13:00 – Lunch Break & Departure of Participants

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Poster Presentations

Isabelle Marthot (Universität Basel):
Papyri of the University of Basel (together with Sabine Huebner and Graham Claytor)
University of Minnesota Project: Ancient Lives, a crowd-sourced Citizen Science project

Uta Siffert (Universität Wien)
Project Meketre: From Object to Icon (together with Lubica Hudakova, Peter Jánosy and Claus Jurman)

Journal “Digital Classics Online”
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Organizers & Contact

Dr. Monica Berti
Alexander von Humboldt-Lehrstuhl für Digital Humanities – Institut für Informatik
Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
www.dh.uni-leipzig.de
monica.berti@uni-leipzig.de

Dr. Franziska Naether
Ägyptologisches Institut/Ägyptisches Museum – Georg Steindorff
Goethestraße 2, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Telefon 0341 97-37146
Telefax 0341 97-37029
www.aegyptologisches-institut.uni-leipzig.de
naether@uni-leipzig.de
September 1, 2015 – August 31, 2016
Volkswagen Visiting Research Fellow
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York
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