I was thinking of a slightly different format, like a half day, kinda informal workshop. Ancient world data are a peculiar kind of humanities data (that are already pretty complicated ;-) ), because they are even more fragmentary and incomplete than "regular" historical data. That means that even a new nugget of information can literally change the way we understand our ancient past. There is a great interest in the classics and archaeology community for AI methods. And these disciplines are actually quite advanced in the applications of DH. I was thinking that we could invite Thea Sommershield (the AI and epigraphy project based at Venice that was on the news recently), my colleague Charlotte Tupman at Exeter, who has also done some work on AI and stonemasonry in Roman epigraphy, and Perhaps Peter Campbell (Oxford, I believe) who was also experimenting with AI and archaeological data. I could involve the ArcheoFoss community (archaeology and open software) as well as the large and well established CAA (computer applications in archaeology) community. And the Digital Classicists. I'd be very happy to co-organise this with any other member of the group, maybe also in collaboration with one of the persons above, in addition or in alternative to the other idea I suggested for the Fall.
I was thinking of a slightly different format, like a half day, kinda informal workshop. Ancient world data are a peculiar kind of humanities data (that are already pretty complicated ;-) ), because they are even more fragmentary and incomplete than "regular" historical data. That means that even a new nugget of information can literally change the way we understand our ancient past. There is a great interest in the classics and archaeology community for AI methods. And these disciplines are actually quite advanced in the applications of DH. I was thinking that we could invite Thea Sommershield (the AI and epigraphy project based at Venice that was on the news recently), my colleague Charlotte Tupman at Exeter, who has also done some work on AI and stonemasonry in Roman epigraphy, and Perhaps Peter Campbell (Oxford, I believe) who was also experimenting with AI and archaeological data. I could involve the ArcheoFoss community (archaeology and open software) as well as the large and well established CAA (computer applications in archaeology) community. And the Digital Classicists. I'd be very happy to co-organise this with any other member of the group, maybe also in collaboration with one of the persons above, in addition or in alternative to the other idea I suggested for the Fall.