ENCODE

Available

 * https://site.unibo.it/encode/

Director

 * Alice Bencivenni

Description
From the site’s “Project” page (accessed 2021-01-12):

"ENCODE (Bridging the in Ancient Writing Cultures: ENhance COmpetences in the Digital Era) is a three-year (September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023) Erasmus+ Strategic partnership for higher education, funded by the EU, aimed at bridging the existing gap in the teaching/learning domain of ancient writing cultures between the peculiar humanistic training and the now essential digital competences required for study, research and employment. It brings together six partners: Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Julius Maximilian Universität Würzburg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Università degli studi di Parma, Universität Hamburg, Universitetet I Oslo."

From the site’s “Project rationale” page (accessed 2021-01-12):

Digital transformations in the cultural heritage sector have empowered the work of curation, made it easier for people to use cultural heritage for education, research, creation and recreation, and contributed to an open and knowledgeable society. Specialized disciplines in the humanities like papyrology, epigraphy, paleography, dealing with ancient written artefacts, embraced digital change developing tools for new forms of participatory research and collaborative publishing: these innovations require new competences and training both for graduate students and researchers in the rapidly evolving field of Digital Humanities and AI, in order to prepare new professionals contributing to preserving and giving access to the intercultural heritage of ancient texts spelled in multiple ancient languages and writing systems.

ENCODE is grounded in the research-training experiences of other transnational initiatives, some of which already involve team members of the partners’ organizations: it primarily relies on the transnational EpiDoc community, and also considers experiences of other transnational initiatives such as Papyri.info, the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri, Trismegistos, EAGLE, and Sunoikisis DC.

ENCODE target are: graduate students in Ancient History, Archaeology, Classics, Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities; stakeholders in the fields of cultural heritage curation, digital collections of artefacts and texts, and digital publishing; academics in the relevant disciplines.

Workshops

 * Digital and Practical Epigraphy ('Connectivity and Competition' and the ENCODE Project) (London, April 4–8, 2022)
 * Linked Open Data for Written Artefacts Intensive Training workshop (May 26-28, 2021): The training introduces participants to the basic technologies for Linked Open Data and demonstrates techniques for producing, storing, visualizing, querying, reusing and sharing data as LOD.
 * "Bridging the Gap with Linked Open Data" conference (Hamburg University, May 25, 2021): At the second conference of the ENCODE project, experts will share their experiences on Linked Open Data and especially its implementation inside and outside academia.
 * Digital Greek and Latin Epigraphy workshop (January 26-29, 2021)
 * Digital Greek and Latin Epigraphy conference (Bologna University, January 25, 2021)

References and presentations

 * Alice Bencivenni, Gabriel Bodard, and Irene Vagionakis (2021), 'Teaching epigraphy in a pandemic", SunoikisisDC . [Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zerKTMN3FCo]
 * Daria Elagina (2021), "Modelling Vocabulary of Digital Competencies for the Project ENCODE", Digital Classics London Seminar. [Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8cQAkGEJRY]