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Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies
Exploring the impact of open-access and openly licensed data and code in classical and Byzantine studies.
Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies shows how openness supports transparency, collaboration, the identification of biases, and new interpretive and data‑driven approaches to ancient sources. Through practical case studies, the book demonstrates how methods such as epigraphic transcription, textual criticism, and archaeological modeling have advanced open data standards and practices.
This book highlights the potential of interoperability, documentation, and open workflows for broader approaches to the ancient world. Bringing together work from classics, Byzantine studies, archaeology, linguistics, and digital humanities, it presents open scholarship as a transformative model for academic knowledge production.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Valeria Vitale and Gabriel Bodard1 Historical authority and the prosopography of the Byzantine world: from factoids to assertions
Tara Andrews2 Connecting late antiquities: challenges and opportunities for prosopographical data
Charlotte Tupman & Richard Flower3 Venetian officals in sixteenth-century Cyprus: An online database and a pilgrimage account
Tassos Papacostas4 Connections through collections: linking archaeological and epigraphic archives through places and people
Nurdan Atalan & Alessandra Giovenco5 Engraving the soil: the challenges of defining spatial footprints in Cypriot cultural heritage
Stuart Dunn6 Who wants to live forever? iterative improvement through reuse of open Libyan place data
Valeria Vitale7 The makeup of Ajax: untangling networks of interpretation through the commentary tradition
Matteo Romanello & Charles Pletcher8 Traces of lost libraries in the works of Alexandrian and Byzantine scholars: bibliographic open data from antiquity to Wikimedia
Monica Berti9 Digital epigraphy at Dura-Europos: toward a FAIR-er inscriptional corpus
Anne Hunnell Chen, Carl R. Rice, Ilaria Bucci & Jennifer A. Baird10 Greek inscriptions in the Louvre Museum: how to deal with such a miscellaneous collection in the twenty-first century
Michèle Brunet11 Reception of Sapphic language in Hadrianic verse epigraphy: building on open philological data
Gabriel Bodard & Marja Vierros12 The next decade of Byzantine sigillography: the impact of open data as collaboration
Martina Filosa, Alessio Sopracasa & Jonathan Shea