Workshop 1: Digital Research Methods

Jan 22, 2025 – Jan 24, 2025

Leipzig, Germany


WEDNESDAY, January 22, 2025

S420 – Seminargebäude, Universitätsstraße 1, 04109 Leipzig

Opening

  • 9:00-9:30: Monica Berti and Manuel Burghardt (Leipzig University), Welcome and Introduction

Session 1 (MECANO Partner Institutions)

  • 9:30-10:00: Pieter d’Hoine (KU Leuven): The Project MECANO
  • 10:00-10:30: Konstantin Freybe (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Leipzig), Archive, Collection, Resource: The Dissertations Corpus at the German National Library
  • 10:30-11-00: Adam Gitner (BAdW München), The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
  • 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
  • 11:30-12:15: Cecily Robinson and Lucas Faessen (Brill Publishers), Brill Scholarly Editions: Jacoby Online (round table)
  • 12:15-12:45: Marja Vierros (University of Helsinki), PapyGreek – Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri (online)

Lunch

13:00: Mensa am Park – Universitätsstraße 5, 04109 Leipzig

Session 2 (Digital Editions and Linguistic Annotations)

  • 15:00-16:30: Monica Berti and Leonardo D’Addario (Leipzig University), Digital Scholarly Editions and Canonical Citations
  • 16:30-17:00: Coffee Break
  • 17:00-17:45: Margherita Fantoli (KU Leuven), Linguistic Annotations for Latin
  • 17:45-18:30: Mark Depauw (KU Leuven), Introduction to Trismegistos(+): the Case of TM Authors

Dinner

19:00-22:00: Auerbachs Keller - Mädler Passage, Grimmaische Str. 2-4, Leipzig

THURSDAY, January 23, 2025

S420 – Seminargebäude, Universitätsstraße 1, 04109 Leipzig

Session 3 (Introduction to Distant Reading)

  • 09:00-11:00: Manuel Burghardt (Leipzig University), Introduction to Distant Reading – Theory, Methods, Tools
  • 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
  • 11:30-12:15: Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki), Lexical and Semantic Text Reuse Approaches to Large Datasets in Reception Studies

LUNCH

13:00: Mensa am Park – Universitätsstraße 5, 04109 Leipzig

Session 4 (Digital Corpora and Tools)

  • 15:00-16:30: Luisa Ripoll-Alberola (Leipzig University), Computational Methods for Reference Extraction and Lessons Learned
  • 16:30-17:00: Coffee Break
  • 17:00-18:00: Valeria Boano (KU Leuven), Introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD) and the Linking Latin (LiLa) Knowledge Base
  • 18:00-18:30: Wrap-up: Digital Resources and Tools for the MECANO Project
    * Tasks for Friday morning: each PhD candidate shares their ideas (max. 5 minutes) on how to potentially use digital methods in their future research (or provide reasons why it doesn’t make sense to use any at all)

FRIDAY, January 24, 2025

S420 – Seminargebäude, Universitätsstraße 1, 04109 Leipzig

Session 5 (MECANO PhD Projects)

  • 9:00-9:20: Marin-Marie Le Bris and Kendall Bitner (Radboud University Nijmegen), Towards a Collectively Annotated Zotero Bibliography on the Topic of Canons, Canonisation and Canonicity
  • 9:20-10:30: PhD students present their thoughts/ideas on how to use digital corpora and tools for their MECANO projects (part 1)
    * We discuss each idea 5-10 minutes and document the results (part 1)
  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00-12:30: PhD students present their thoughts/ideas on how to use digital corpora and tools for their MECANO projects (part 2)
    * We discuss each idea 5-10 minutes and document the results (part 1)
  • 12:30-13:00: Conclusions

LUNCH

13:00: Mensa am Park – Universitätsstraße 5, 04109 Leipzig


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