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[http://etrap.gcdh.de eTRAP] ('''e'''lectronic '''T'''ext '''R'''euse '''A'''cquisition '''P'''roject) is an Early Career Research Group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The research group, starting on 1st March 2015, was awarded €1.6 million and runs for four years, supporting four full-time researchers and eight student assistants.

As the name suggests, this interdisciplinary team studies the linguistic and literary phenomenon that is text re-use with a particular focus on historical languages. More specifically, we look at how ancient authors copied, alluded to, paraphrased and translated each other as they spread their knowledge in writing. This early career research group seeks to provide a basic understanding of the “Historical Text Re-use” methodology (it being distinct from plagiarism), and so to study what defines text re-use, why some people re-use information and others don’t, how text is re-used and how this practice has changed over history. We’ll be investigating text re-use on big data or, in other words, datasets that, owing to their size, cannot be manually processed. The languages we’ll be working with are Ancient Greek, German, English, Italian and Latin. This research touches upon the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Classics, History, Theology and Philology but has also ramifications in Text Visualisation, Manuscript Studies and Bio-informatics, to mention but a few.

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eTRAP ('''e'''lectronic '''T'''ext '''R'''euse '''A'''cquisition '''P'''roject) is an Early Career Research Group funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The research group, starting on 1st March 2015, was awarded €1.6 million and runs for four years, supporting four full-time researchers and eight student assistants.

As the name suggests, this interdisciplinary team studies the linguistic and literary phenomenon that is text re-use with a particular focus on historical languages. More specifically, we look at how ancient authors copied, alluded to, paraphrased and translated each other as they spread their knowledge in writing. This early career research group seeks to provide a basic understanding of the “Historical Text Re-use” methodology (it being distinct from plagiarism), and so to study what defines text re-use, why some people re-use information and others don’t, how text is re-used and how this practice has changed over history. We’ll be investigating text re-use on big data or, in other words, datasets that, owing to their size, cannot be manually processed. The languages we’ll be working with are Ancient Greek, German, English, Italian and Latin. This research touches upon the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Classics, History, Theology and Philology but has also ramifications in Text Visualisation, Manuscript Studies and Bio-informatics, to mention but a few.

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2014-07-01T15:52:18Z

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* http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

===Mirrors===
* [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ Berlin]
* [http://perseus.uchicago.edu/ Chicago] - actually, [[Perseus under PhiloLogic]] contains many of the Perseus Greek and Latin texts, but served by a different mechanism for browsing and searching the text, and with somewhat different aims.

=== Description ===
The ''Perseus Project'' at Tufts University is the foremost Digital Library for the classical world. In its collection of Greek and Roman materials, readers will find many of the canonical texts read today.

The Greek collection approaches 8 million words and the Latin collection currently has 5.5 million. In addition, many English language dictionaries, other reference works, translations, and commentaries are included, so that anyone with an internet connection has access to the equivalent of a respectable College Classics library.

The ''Perseus'' site is further enriched by intricate linking mechanisms among texts (resulting in more than 30 million links).

From the ''Perseus'' site, 2005-07-25:

Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.

As of April 2013, the ''Perseus Digital Library'' closely collaborates with the [http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Open_Greek_and_Latin#Description Open Greek and Latin] project at the University of Leipzig.

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Perseus Digital Library

2014-07-01T15:44:33Z

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* http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

===Mirrors===
* [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ Berlin]
* [http://perseus.uchicago.edu/ Chicago] - actually, [[Perseus under PhiloLogic]] contains many of the Perseus Greek and Latin texts, but served by a different mechanism for browsing and searching the text, and with somewhat different aims.

=== Description ===
The Perseus Project at Tufts University is the foremost Digital Library for the classical world, if not for the Humanities in general. In its collection of Greek and Roman materials, readers will find many of the canonical texts read today.

The Greek collection approaches 8 million words and the Latin collection currently has 5.5 million. In addition, many English language dictionaries, other reference works, translations, and commentaries are included, so that anyone with an internet connection has access to the equivalent of a respectable College Classics library.

The Perseus site is further enriched by intricate linking mechanisms among texts (resulting in more than 30 million links).

From the Perseus site, 2005-07-25:

Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.

As of April 2013, the Perseus Digital Library is a close collaborator of the [http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Open_Greek_and_Latin#Description Open Greek and Latin] project at the University of Leipzig.

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2014-05-03T08:08:58Z

GretaFranzini: /* Research Summary */

== Research Summary ==
I am a Research Associate working for the [http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/ Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities] at the University of Leipzig. I am also a part-time PhD student at the [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/ UCL Centre for Digital Humanities] where my research is leading me to the production of an electronic transcription and edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of S. Augustine's ''De Civitate Dei''. My research studies also saw the creation of a [https://sites.google.com/site/digitaleds/ catalogue of digital editions] aimed at gathering as much information as possible about extant digital editions.

== Education ==
2011-2015: PhD in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London.
2009-2010: MA in Digital Humanities at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London.
2006-2009: BA Honours Degree in Classics, King's College London.
2001-2006: Liceo Classico Don Nicola Mazza, Verona, Italy. Diploma di Esame di Stato.

== Employment ==
Present: Research Associate and Executive, Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities, Universität Leipzig.
Past: [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/greta-franzini/30/944/87a LinkedIn] profile.

== Contact ==
Email: franzini (at) informatik (dot) uni-leipzig (dot) de
Website: [http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de DH Leipzig]
Website: [http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uczcghf/ UCL profile]
Twitter: [http://twitter.com/GretaFranzini GretaFranzini]

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2014-05-03T07:58:21Z

GretaFranzini:

(PhD in Digital Humanities)
==Working Title==
'''''A Digital Transcription and Edition of the Oldest Surviving Manuscript of Augustine's ''De Civitate Dei'''''''

[[user:GretaFranzini|GRETA FRANZINI]]

Supervisors:
* Prof. Melissa Terras (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities): Lead Supervisor
* [[user:SimonMahony|Simon Mahony]] (UCL Centre for Digital Humanities): Second Supervisor

==Abstract==
The focus of my doctoral studies at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is the creation of a digital edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of S. Augustine's ''De Civitate Dei''. The manuscript dates back to the early fifth century and most of the existing, scarce research we have predates the 1950s. Its much debated provenance and authorship, due to it being contemporary to Augustine himself, are as intriguing as its rare palaeographical features and marginalia. My research seeks to, firstly, examine best practice in the field of digital editions by collating relevant evidence in a detailed [https://sites.google.com/site/digitaleds/ catalogue of extant digital editions]. The catalogue records features, scope, philological as well as technological aspects of each edition and aims at becoming a collaborative scholarly endeavour for the benefit of the Digital Humanities community. Secondly (and consequently), lessons learnt from the catalogue will inform the production of an electronic edition of the manuscript, which will include transcriptions of the text and the scholia, images, a short critical apparatus, as well as background information and links to relevant resources.

==Presentations==
* ''A Catalogue of Digital Editions''. [http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Digital Humanities 2013, Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 18 July 2013].
*''A Catalogue of Digital Editions: Towards an Electronic Edition of St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei''. [http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2013.html The Digital Classicist Seminar Series, London, 12 July 2013].

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