Presentation by Charlotte Roueche at the conference Using digital heritage for research - policy challenges and opportunities _ Understanding the policies and strategies needed to integrate digital heritage into humanities research. A meeting organised by Europeana and the KB, Royal Library of the Netherlands. 25 & 26 April 2016 in the Hague, the Netherlands.

1. Digital Antiquity
Use case: inscribed texts
Charlotte Roueché
King’s College London
Den Haag, 25 April 2015

2. “Researchers and cultural
heritage institutions should
publish use cases of their
reuse of digital cultural
heritage.”
What is the motivation for
them to do so?

3. Motivations:
• Esteem
• The demands of the subject
• Dissemination
• Sustainability
• Esteem/Advancement

4. Esteem (1)
My first publications (2004,
2007) were funded under a
Resource Enhancement
programme, which was then
discontinued:
Digitisation is not considered
Real Research

5. Fair copies
of texts at
Aphrodisias
by Robert
‘Palmyra’
Wood
October
1750
The demands of the subject:
A full, clear account

6. Page from
the
notebook of
John
Deering,
1812

7. CIG I
Boeckh, 1828
From the copies
of others.
A careful
attempt to
represent the
appearance of
the text

8. TITVLI MVMMIANI PARS POSTERIORI52
v
Variam lectionem dedi Marsi, Iucundi Veronensis,"Accursii,
Apiani, Victorini, Ang elotti Graeviani, spreta reliqua, quam in
utilem esse supra dem onstravi. -- 1 SANCTE Acc. Vict. Ang .,
SANCTAE Iuc.; Marsus non refertj etsi sim ile quid in exem plo
se habuisse indicat. Lectio SAncro nolo SENI (voluit sam o 1m m ,
quam prim um apud Apianum reperi, aperte flux i t ex interpreta
tione Pom poniana, quem hunc titulum propter praescriptum sm crs
ad deum Sancum vel ut tum scribebant Sanctum rettulisse ex
com m entario Marsi elucet. Mihi suach vocativus est neque quic
quam deesse puto. -2 TIBIEI Ap., Tm Vict. -— m im ius Mars,
quod tuentur tituli reliqui; MVNIVSIuc. Ap. Acc., MAMlVS,super
scripto Mvm vs Vict., m vm vs Ang . err. typ. pro m vm vs, ut ex
com m entario patet. -3 ANTIQYIS Vict. — qyon ante m as inseri
iussit Ritschelius, m axim e ut hiatus evitetur. Mihi error videtur
latere in PRO vvay pro quo restitui PROMISERAT._ 4 IVSSVM Ap.
-— 5 cocansl Inc. Acc. Vict. Ang ., COLENDEIAp., COGENDAMars.
-- ac ante DISSOLVENDEIinsert Mur. contra Acc. m s. — FAXEIS
Mars. Vict. Aug . — Hunc versum corruptum esse et m etrum
declarat et sententia, quam praeterea facile assequim urg precatur
enim im perator, ut praedam universam cog at neque inde quic
quam apud se alium ve casu dolove extra decim ationem im aneat
(quo pertinent Livii verba 5, 23: haud facile inibatur ratio iubend-i
. referre praedam populum , ut ex eapars debita in sacrum secerneretur),
deinde ut decim am partem iuste dissolvat. Quare pro “cum quae
rendum est vocabulum , quale est com poæ m vel dam natem vel poti
tum vel facultatem ; sed nullum inveni et sententiae et versui et
litterarum vestig iis satis aptum . ceterum nuper Bernaysio sua
dente proposuit Ritschelius (m us. Rhen. nov. 14, 398, cf. 8, 491):
tua(m ) pace(m ) rog ans te cog endei diasolvendei, ut g enetivi pen
deant a pace; quod m ihi nequaquam probatur. - 7 12.1100éAp.
PROPTER Mars. -- ALIEIS Mars. Acc., ALIAIS Iuc. Ap., ALIIS Vict.
_ DONEISMars, nom s Iuc. Ap. Vict. Ang ., bouis Ace. -— cvncn
pro DIGNA Mars. -- Itaque sic fere procedet ad Herculem Victo
rem adlocutio:
Sancte l
De decum a, Victor, tibei Luciu’ Mum m iu’ donum
Moribus' antiqueis prom iserat hoc dare sese.
visum anim o suo perfecity tua pace rog ans te
Cog endei dissolvendei tu ut -o-u faxseis,
Perfic
i
as decum am ut faciat verae rationis,
Proque hoc atque alieis doneis des dig na m erenti.
543 binae inscriptiones iisdem verbis inter rudera frebulanae
coloniae totidem basibus consig natae, super quibus bina sig na
elaboratissim ae industriae stetisse observavi iam hum i iacentia,
quae olim Graecorum quorundam heroum im ag ines prae se
. tulisse puto, ut scalpturae eleg antia et paludam enta non Ro
m ano m ore super dextrum hum erum , sed Graecanico super si
nistrum fibu l a com prehensa dem onstrant. Utram que statuam
laceram quam vis brachiis et cruribus abscissis et capite deper
dito Io. Bapt. Michaelius S. victoriae frebulanae m artyris abbas
cardinali Carpineo dono dedit Rom am que advehi curavit, qua
rum altera m odo M. Aurelii Pii
f.,
altera P. Septim ii Severi
personas g erunt. Fabrett. 'rqaetée en deua-endroz'tade la anim e
m aniére, l’une pierre dans une parte de Monteleone, l’autre dans
une m étairie
a
S. Victoire. Ellea sant d’une m ilne form a d’une
sorte de piédestal plus larg e que haud Chaupy.
L
-MVMMIVS -COS u. c. 608.
vico
Fabretti 400, 293 (cf. err. typ.); Chaupy m aiaon d’Horace
3,
93;
Martelli lettera al Drag onetti Cieoli 1831 p.
2
et Sic. n. 79;
Orell. 564.
Trebula Mutuesca postea in m unicipii ius relata (v. Henzen
n. 7207; Strab. 5,
3,
1
p. 228 Gas.) Mum m ii aetate adhuc vi
cus fuit.
544 in S. Antonii villae Pedis Ripae in ag ro Nursino.
L
-MVMMIVS u. e. 608.
COS ' DED N
Mur. 288,
1
ab Hyacintho Mannio iurisconsulto Rom ano.
1
m iliale Mun, unde nihil sequitur nisi Mannium exem plum
m isisse m inusculis solitisque cum notis perscriptum . —
2
id est
dedfi'
t
) N(ursinie).
545 Parm ae in theatro rep. 'Fa trovata quasi nell’ eatrem itadella
parte sinistra della acena, aem bra seg ata
o
tag liata m ella parte
superiore raaente
le
lettere
e
nel deatro lato; nella parte inferiore
veden' un foro rotondo pel qual
si
direbbefosao passato un perno;
a
di pietra tenera di Vicenza della cava di Costozza, rotta in
quattro pezzi, ed ha 67 centim . di altezza, 41 di larg kezza, ed
8
di g roaeezza'. _ Lopez.
L
' M
v
M M
l
v
S
C
o
S
-
P-P
Ritschl tab. LIV D ex lapide. Lopez Bullett. 1844 p. 174 cf. 1845
p. 47 (inde Henzen n. 5349).
Lapis quam quam circum sectus est, tam en inscriptio integ ra vi
detur m ansisse vel certe non periisse nisi v.
1
extr. L-P. Litterae
Aug usteae aetatis cum videantur esse, in theatri instauratione do
narii exim ii basis vetusta abiecta est novaque supposita.
Id est populo Parm enn'. Nam Borg hesio quod olim placuit: L.
Mum m ius . .
.
. . [praefiz
c
t us fabrum ] co(n)a(ulis), p(rim ua) prile
. . . . . ., reliquorum titulorum Mum m ianorum collatione redarg uitur.
u. c. 608.
546 tabella m arm orea exig uaa quam in ruinis Italicae Santiponcii
non long e
a
Sevilla reperit c. 2.. 1835— 1839 Cortina. Hodie
extat Sevillae in m useo, sed im m inuta.
l.
m um m IVS '
L
'
F
' lMP
ded. coRINTHO
'
CAPTA
vico italICENSl
u. c. 608.
Ivo de la Cortina antig uedadea de ltalica 1840. Descripsit quod
superest iis quae litteris inclinatis expressim us ex Cortiua additis
I'Iuebnerus.
1
uvs Cortiua. -— -l'F'lMP Huebner.
Italicam Scipio Africanus m aior condidit c. a. u. c. 549 teste
Appiano (Hisp. 38):
d
qurfw v o'qust ratis rpauparlag
E;
m ian
liv
nim i rfig al-raklag ’IruNm Iv Em ile”. Hac ratione constitutus
vicus quin inde ab orig ine civium Rom anorum fuerit dubium
non est idque confir
m
a ut et num m i liberae reipublicae aetate
ltalicae percussi nulli et tribus Serg ia (Orell. 5202), cum reliqui
Hispani in Galeria fere censerentur, et m unicipii (civium Roina
norum scilicet) condicio, quam ad Hadrianum usque obtinuit,
postea in coloniae ius m utata (Gell. 16, 13). Quam ob rem L.
Mum m ius cum toti ltaliae ex m anubiis dona daret, recte hos
extra Italiam deg entes tog atos hom ines non praeteriit. ceterum
basem hanc item ac praecedentem patet restitutam esse aetate
posteriore.
CIL I
Mommsen,
1863
Detailed
comments,
occasional
measurements

9. An Austrian notebook, 1893

10. Photography: Anatolia in 1926

11. Over the centuries there
has been a huge growth in
the volume of information
about inscriptions which is
accessible, and therefore
becomes required

12. From the 1980s scholars were
thinking about handling inscribed
texts digitally; the aims were to
deal with volume, and to facilitate
search, within a closed body of
material: for early adopters there
was no Web.

13. In 2000 Tom
Elliott proposed
the EpiDoc TEI
compliant XML
markup schema
Dissemination

14. Eagle is
usingEpiDoc
to create a
new,
exemplary,
resource

15. Esteem (2) Academics will use
this – but will they cite it?
Humanists don’t like URLs

16. Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004:
The publication has an ISBN:
access to library catalogues is still a problem

17. Esteem (3)
The standards for digital
epigraphic publications are
higher than for other formats
But this is not the perception:
they are not reviewed in
academic journals.
Why not?

18. One example of re-use – by computer scientists

19. http://laststatues.classics.ox.ac.uk/
An example of non-reuse –
by traditional academics

20. Published in 2012

21. Eagle is an example of a project by
which scholarship can reach
entirely new audiences. What is
not clear is whether the scholars
are ready for this.
Reuse is a difficult concept: we
need to develop the idea of a
knowledge journey: see Pelagios

22. Sustainability?

23. We cannot advocate digital
publication without having
answers to the sustainability
question.
I learned a great deal about the
usage of one of my publications
only when the site went down . . .

24. New Research Data Management
requirements may be changing the
landscape: Europeana could be
presented as part of a LOCKS
strategy. There are repositories in
various EU countries: scholars need
to be told where they are.

25. But the digital presentation of
materials from Libya should provide
an argument for digitisation as a
means of conservation!