Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: The tools

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posted on 2025-02-05, 08:12 authored by Charlotte RouecheCharlotte Roueche, Anna Katerina Jordanous, Charlotte Tupman, Mark Hedges, Denis Searby, Elvira Wakelnig

The aim of the project was to explore the use of digital tools to examine, and to represent, shared ideas/concepts/axioms/apophthegms in various cultures: we chose to examine the Byzantine Greek and medieval Arabic worlds, looking at the transmission of such materials, largely drawn from the Classical Greek world.

The ontology was developed from our experience, principally by Anna Jordanous

Funding

HERA Joint Research Programme

European Commission

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History

Temporal coverage

300 BCE-1000 CE

Geospatial coverage

Levant, Byzantine Empire

Data collection from date

2010

Data collection to date

2013

Collection method

Each literary researcher worked on the manuscripts of their various texts, to produce digital editions. The technical team worked to build an ontology in order to represent the connections between those texts, and to build a structure for represting the texts (the Dynamic Library)

Language

English, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Latin

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Keywords

Axioms.Byzantine Empire -- Social life and customs Arabic literature

Licence

CC BY

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