St. Isidore of Seville research lab

Ancient technai, modern technologies

Location: Fenwick 406

Purpose of lab:

• for faculty/student research
• managed by faculty and students
• hosting software libre (or open-source software).

Hours: Key available from Classics Dept. office Mon. - Fri. 9:00 - 5:00.

Additional evening and weekend hours are scheduled by student lab monitors

Applications currently supported by volunteers:

• XML editing and publishing
  • Create simple Web documents in valid XHTML
  • Edit more complex texts following Text Encoding Initiative guidelines
• SQL databases
• Geographic Information Systems

Other software available in the lab for:

• Editing graphics and scanned photos
• Managing versions of archived information
• Statistical analysis
• Print-quality typesetting of musical scores

Network services

• Web serving
• Electronic publishing of XML documents
• Database server
• Users' work automatically backed up five times weekly
• Secure connections from anywhere on the internet

Want a lab account? See details here.

Want to get involved with the project? Suggestions? Criticisms? Speak to one of the faculty sponsors in the Classics Department (Profs. Ebbott, Perry, Smith)

Sample projects

A few current projects:

• Editions of manuscript texts of the Iliad for the Center of Hellenic Studies' Homer Multitext Project
• An "proof of concept" test editing texts of the palimpsest of the "Archimedes Codex" for the Archimedes Project (Nov 2007- Jan 2008)
• Trmmili, a new corpus of Lycian inscriptions and related material