I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since the last Work in Progress day, but here we are again. Another super interesting day listening to talks that spanned the full breadth of the diverse discipline that is Classical Studies
British Library Placement: About the Placement and First Day
For the next three months (plus a break for Christmas) I’ll be taking time out of my PhD to do a placement at the British Library. The specific project I’m working on focuses on their collection of Privy Council Appeal
Open Epigraphic Data Unconference – Institute of Classical Studies, 15 May 2017
On 15 May I attended the Open Epigraphic Data unconference, organised by Gabriel Bodard from the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London). I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, as although I’ve attended an unconference before, it was based
Think Ontologically: An Introduction to the Use of Ontologies in Archaeology and Digital Humanities
Today I was up bright and early to attend this Archaeology ontology workshop, organised by staff and students from universities in the Midlands3Cities (M3C) Doctoral Training Partnership. As someone who studies how archaeologists work, rather than really being an archaeologist
Linked Pasts, 15-16 December 2016
This post originally appeared on Pelagios Commons at http://commons.pelagios.org/2017/05/linked-pasts-15-16-december-2016/ On 15-16 December 2016, I attended the Second International Linked Pasts conference, hosted by UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) in Madrid, and organised by the Pelagios team. This was
Listening Experience Database Seminar 1: Integrating data from multiple sources and linking across datasets
Today I attended a workshop organised by people who work on the current iteration of the Listening Experience Database project (LED), and involved members of the project team as well as a few more of us from the Open University
Digital Heritage ‘Big’ Data Hacking & Visualisation Workshop
Today I attended a workshop on ‘big cultural heritage data’ at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, which introduced me to several interesting projects and initiatives that are relevant to my research, and allowed me to renew some connections with people I’d
Classical Studies Postgraduate Work in Progress Conference, 10 May 2017
Today was the day of the Open University’s Classical Studies Postgraduate Work in Progress conference. I’d been looking forward to it since reading the excellent blog posts from Sophie Raudnitz and Liz Webb about the event in previous years, albeit
Classical Association Conference, 26-29 April 2017
For the past few days I’ve attended the annual Classical Association (CA) conference, an event that brings together academics, researchers, students and teachers from all over the world – this year it was held at the rather lovely University of
Researching Born-Digital Archives Workshop
This post originally appeared on the Open University Classical Studies blog at http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classicalstudies/?p=1148. On Thursday 16 March 2017 I attended Researching Born-Digital Archives at the British Library, a collaborative workshop with three AHRC consortia – CHASE (who provide my PhD funding),