Annotating Aristophanes Ovid

Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017, 17h00-18h15 (CET time)

Session coordinator: Neven Jovanović (University of Zagreb)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKV_uVDzZI

Slides: Annotating Aristophanes and Ovid

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Summary

The Sunoikisis DC Zagreb team will report on how we spent this semester reading Aristophanes' Birds (in Greek) and Ovid's Metamorphoses 1 (in Latin) and annotating people and places in these texts using the Recogito platform. Works of fiction offer special challenges to identifying and categorizing people and places; each challenge is also an invitation to read the text closer, and to approach it in a different way.

Outline

1. Introduction to the team, Recogito, and the task
2. About the texts
3. Purpose of the experiment
4. The annotation process
5. Importance of context
6. Annotating adjectives and nouns
7. Annotating places and people
8. Annotating the real and the fictional
9. Conclusion

Required readings

• Recogito Tutorial

Resources

• Barker, E., Isaksen, L, Rabinowitz, N., Bouzarovski, S. and Pelling, C. (2013): On using a digital text in modern humanities research: the case of Herodotus’ Histories. In: S. Dunn and S. Mahony (eds.), Digital Classicist Supplement: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Oxford, 45-62.
• Holden, Hubert (1871): Onomasticon Aristophaneum. Cantabrigae: apud Deighton Bell socios.
• Klink, Paulus (1914): Index nominum, in Ovidius and Magnus, Hugo: Metamorphoseon Libri XV. Berolini: apud Weidmannos, 722-766.