More than 20 contributors 😍bringing 24 new and 232 updated place resources (spread from the Strait of Gibraltar to east-central China and from northern Europe and the British Isles to the Horn of Africa), all in the past week in the #PleiadesGazetteer

Pleiades gazetteer@pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (13-20 July 2026): Over the course of the last week the Pleiades editorial college published 24 new and 232 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Dan Diffendale […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Digital Classicist London seminar, Friday 17th July at 17:00 BST: Mapping the Blue Horizon: A Digital Corpus Approach to the Blue-Range Color Complex in Classical Latin, by Burak Boşdurmaz (University of Koç) Stream live at youtu.be/Cgp30ZLiNCc

Mapping the Blue Horizon: A Digital Corpus Approach to the Blue-Range Color Complex

YouTube video by Digital Classicist London Seminars

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Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? I'd love a contact because hcommons.social/@paregorios/... Boosts for reach/visibility appreciated.

1/3 Thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social we are happy to unveil the new HTR United htr-united.github.io ! - New internationalization system - New browsing interface for the corpora - New form to register your corpus and help you build metrics ( htr-united.github.io/document-you... )

On examining today's #PleiadesGazetteer Linked Data sidebar, with notes about #Wikidata #Trismegistos #LOD et al. hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

Classical Antiquity in Video Games: Combining Visual, Narrative & Interactive Elements Fri 12 Jun, 5pm shorturl.at/iwEuL Sarah Rohde (UoL) will explore the displacement of Classical Antiquity through a corpus of 100 games spanning different genres, contexts of productions & diverse target audiences

Classical Antiquity in Video Games: Combining Visual, Narrative and Interactive Elements

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OCR for Ancient Greek is constrained by a lack of open training data. But the deeper challenge tackled by 2 papers from Inria is doing OCR and document structure recovery together: section hierarchies, milestone numbering, marginal references. Paper 1: arxiv.org/html/2603.02...

We said we'd have news. The first release based on our new quarterly release for eScriptorium is out, and our lead developer talks about it: escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-05... Will come on our Inria instance next week :)

It’s tomorrow! If you want to learn more about digital methods/tools to analyze Romano-British temples, see you there (in person or online)

Maxime Guénette@maxguen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our conference on Digital Humanities applied to Romano-British sacred space is around the corner! You can attend online or in person by booking here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our conference on Digital Humanities applied to Romano-British sacred space is around the corner! You can attend online or in person by booking here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Digital Approaches to Sacred Space in Roman Britain

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Gabriel Bodard@palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Digital Approaches to Sacred Space in Roman Britain (London, Tuesday 19th May 2026), a one-day conference organised by Maxime Guénette (Montréal) bringing togther archaeologists, historians and digital humanists. Programme now available: groups.google.com/g/antiquist/...

The Digital Classicist London 2026 programme is now out! Really looking forward to hear more about these wonderful projects during the summer blog.stoa.org/archives/4375

Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370

Very happy to share that our new paper, "Interoperability as Equity: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs as a Tool to Shape Inclusive Ontologies" is out! We are discussing linked open data, ontologies, Wikidata and interoperability with CIDOC CRM doi.org/10.5334/johd...

A reminder that the submission deadline for the CSDH annual conference is in ONE WEEK! Learn more about our theme — Untranslatable — and submit at csdh-schn.ca/csdh-schn-co...

Very happy to see the first published paper of JOHD new collection on Wikidata in Digital Humanities! As Guest Editor, I’m thrilled to see the enthusiasm for Wikidata and it’s use across disciplines

Claire Dupin de Beyssat@clairedupindb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Heureuse d'annoncer la parution de mon article "Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata" 🎉✨ dans le Journal of Open Humanities Data, qui se trouve ici en open access : doi.org/10.5334/johd...

#CuttingEdge Epigraphy seminar today (17:00 GMT): Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata, by Anna Clara Maniero Azzolini & @maxguen.bsky.social. This seminar is intended for both beginners + advanced participants with an interest in digital epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata

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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4qMYGRw

‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network

A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.

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Don't forget about our abstract writting session later today! See you there! N'oubliez pas notre séance de rédaction de résumé plus tard dans la journée! Au plaisir de vous y voir!

@cacscec-gsccecs.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Reminder to sign up for our writing workshop on November 5th at 3pm EST Rappel : inscrivez-vous à notre atelier d'écriture, qui aura lieu le 5 novembre à 15 h (heure de l'Est). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thursday 13 Nov is our next talk. This one is a bit special because our Chair, Mike Haken, is talking about A New Digital Map of Roman Britain: how to access it, how to use it and what comes next. It's a huge step forward that's taken a decade to develop

La pétition est EN LIGNE ! L'UOttawa a suspendu Antiquité grecque et romaine sans consultation, mettant fin au seul programme de langues anciennes en français en Ontario. Signez, partagez et suivez pour les mises à jour. buff.ly/hjj4J7u #SOSÉtudesanciennesUO #ONfr #FrancoOntarien

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Save Greek and Latin at the University of Ottawa!

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How can Wikidata support collaborative and interoperable epigraphic editions? Join us Nov 11, 2025 at the Institute of Classical Studies (or online) for Recording Inscriptions: Epigraphic Editions and Wikidata! ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Recording Inscriptions and Epigraphic Editions in Wikidata

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Très content de voir cette nouvelle leçon sur l’utilisation d’OpenRefine par @pascaliensis.bsky.social! La manipulation de données est de plus en plus à la portée de tous grâce à ce type d’outil (et dans mon cas pour la réconciliation avec Wikidata)

Programming Historian@proghist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Nouvelle leçon en français ! ✨ Une nouvelle leçon de @pascaliensis.bsky.social : doi.org/10.46430/phf... Merci Delphine Montagne + Baptiste Billaud pour l’évaluation, et merci Alexandre Wauthier pour le suivi éditorial.

Aujourd'hui, c'est la Saint #Zotero (qui fêtera ses 20 ans ce même jour l'an prochain). 2 billets utilisant l'extension Cita par Diego de la Hera pour enrichir ses données, repérer de nouvelles références et contribuer à #Wikidata : zotero.hypotheses.org/5740 zotero.hypotheses.org/5780

Enrichir sa collection de références Zotero grâce à l’extension Cita

Ce billet présente l'extension Cita pour Zotero qui permet d'enrichir ses propres notices de Zotero avec des identifiants pérennes (autres que le DOI) et des données de citations que l'extension va ch...

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🏛️ After 27 years, ArchSearch is being retired this September to make way for an upgrade - The ADS Data Catalogue! Featuring: ✨ Access to 5k ADS Archives and 100k reports 🗺️ Interactive maps & timeline views 🔍 Multi-parameter searching (What/Where/When) 🔗 Read more on the ADS website buff.ly/jW414wt

Very happy to announce that the call for papers of the new collection "Wikidata across the humanities: datasets, methodologies, reuse" is out! As a Guest Editor, I can't wait to read all of your amazing propositions in the next months openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...

#DH2025 is coming fast and so is our workshop on HTR and Ancient Greek! Feel free to visit our website to have a look at the planning and how we want to bring together people to establish guidelines to transcribe Ancient Greek documents. dhtr25.anthologiagraeca.org

We are getting there: our long-awaited book is expected to be published in late autumn. It will be the first book to focus exclusively on Roman sanctuaries in Central-Eastern Europe and on the methods and limits of the archaeology of religion in practice. Contents soon! brill.com/display/titl...

Our panel "Why Study Classics in 2025" at the Annual meeting was a big success!Thanks to all that attended and enjoy the rest of the conference. Notre panel "Pourquoi faire des études classiques en 2025" a été un grand succès! Merci à tous les participant·e·s et profitez du restant de la conférence

Game changer improvements for #RecogitoStudio!

Rainer Simon@aboutgeo.bsky.social · last yr.

The #GeoTagging plugin for #RecogitoStudio is receiving a major overhaul: • Various bugfixes. • Improved Wikidata search. • Most importantly: search across multiple gazetteers. Big thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social for supporting this work! 🎉 github.com/recogito/geo...