User:GabrielBodard

Bio
Dr Gabriel Bodard’s background is in classics, with training and experience in both papyrology and epigraphy; his PhD was titled, “Witches, Cursing and Necromancy: Archaic and Classical Greek Representations of Magic”. While a graduate student he acquired extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in both classics and information technology.

His first employment after university was at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of California, one of the oldest major Digital Humanities projects dealing with Classical texts (and one that shared standards and practices with the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri and Cornell Greek Epigraphy). He then moved to King’s College London, where he built upon his experience in text encoding and markup with work on various digital projects, especially the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (of which he is co-author), Inscriptions of Libya, and the Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea. He has acquired broad and in-depth knowledge of text encoding and processing, especially the use of TEI XML and XSLT. He led the King’s team on the internalionally collaborative Integrating Digital Papyrology project (2007-20011) to convert the DDbDP and other papyrological materials into EpiDoc XML in a new browse and editing platform. He is the principal investigator on the SNAP:DRGN project, networking ancient prosopgraphies.

He founded the Digital Classicist, a community of expertise in the application of Digital Humanities to the study of the ancient world, and is an administrator of the Stoa. He was on the steering committee of the British Epigraphy Society from 2007-2012, and was an elected member of the Technical Council of the TEI from 2008-2013, an academic group that makes decisions on guidelines and technical development. He is one of the lead authors of the EpiDoc Guidelines, and regularly organises and teaches training workshops in digital epigraphy and papyrology.

Contact
Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane Boris Karloff Building London WC2B 5RL


 * Email: gabriel.bodard -at- kcl.ac.uk
 * Twitter: https://twitter.com/palaeofuturist
 * VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/106795353
 * Papyri.info id: http://papyri.info/editor/users/gabrielbodard

Publications

 * 'EpiDoc Guidelines' (with Tom Elliott, Charlotte Tupman, Elli Mylonas, Simona Stoyanova, Scott Vanderbilt, et al.), version 8, Stoa Consortium, 2011-, available: http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/latest/
 * 'Digital Epigraphy and Lexicographical and Onomastic Markup' (composed 2003, archived at Stoa Consortium, Sept 2010), available: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1226
 * 'EpiDoc: Epigraphic documents in XML for publication and interchange' in ed. Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives, Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Rowan & Littlefield, 2010), 101-118. (PDF)
 * Digital Research and the Study of Classical Antiquity, with Simon Mahony (Ashgate Press, 2010) (intro+several chapters archived)
 * Concordia Final Report, with Charlotte Roueché, Tom Elliott, JISC, 2009, available: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/concordiafinalreport.aspx
 * 'Realising Interoperability for Digital Classics Resources' with T. Blanke, M. Hedges, (et al.), in ed. Gerhard Heyer, Text Mining Services (Leipzig, 2009)
 * 'Building Bridges between Islands of Data: An Investigation into Distributed Data Management in the Humanities', with M. Antonioletti, T. Blanke (et al.), Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science (2009), 33-39 (PDF)
 * 'Open Source Critical Editions: A Rationale' with Juan Garcés, in edd. Marilyn Deegan & Kathryn Sutherland, Text Editing, Print, and the Digital World (Ashgate Press, 2009), 84-98 (Google Books) (PDF)
 * "Though much is taken, much abides": Recovering antiquity through innovative digital methodologies with Simon Mahony, Digital Classicist special issue, Digital Medievalist 4 (2008), available: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/
 * 'The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias as Electronic Publication: a user's perspective and a proposed paradigm' in Digital Medievalist 4 (2008), available: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/bodard/
 * 'The EpiDoc Example Stylesheets' (2005--) with Zaneta Au, Tom Elliott (et al.), available: http://sourceforge.net/p/epidoc/wiki/Stylesheets/
 * Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007) with J. Reynolds, C. Roueché, available http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/iaph2007/
 * 'Workshop report: Open Source Critical Editions' with Juan Garcés (2006), Methods Network, available: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/act9report.html
 * Contributions to C. Roueché (2004), Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions, revised second edition, available http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/ala2004
 * 'The EpiDoc Aphrodisias Pilot Project' (with C. Roueché), Forum Archaeologiae Zeitschrift für klassische Archäologie 23/VI/2002, available: http://farch.net

Projects

 * Principle Investigator, Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-roman Names (with Leuven, Oxford, Southampton, Duke), Jan-Dec 2014.
 * Research Associate and Co-Investigator, Inscriptiones antiquae Orae Septentrionalis Ponti Euxini, 2011-2016
 * Principal Investigator, Capturing Tablets: Digital and Experimental Studies on the Materiality of Objects (proposal in development--with Oxford, British Museum, Moorfields Hospital, Duke, Cologne)

Online Presentations

 * Open Source and Open Access (UCL Department of Information Science, 2010-2013)
 * A View on Digital Classics Collaboration: from a cacophony of epigraphic databases to a citizens’ web of inscriptions (plenary seminar, Berlin, Tuesday, 23 October 2012) (video)
 * Interview with Classics Confidential (video)
 * Scholarly Publishing and Web 2.0 (MA in Digital Humanities, October 25, 2010)
 * Integrating Digital Papyrology (British Museum, September 4, 2010)
 * Digital Epigraphy, Interoperability and Linked Data on the Web (Brown University, May 8, 2008)
 * Epigraphic Interoperability (British School at Rome, February 28, 2008)
 * Epigrapher as Encoder (International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford, September 6, 2007)
 * Collaborative Text Editing (on-demand video) (e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, June 20, 2007)
 * Markup for Open Source Critical Editions (Methods Network workgroup/workshop, King's College London, September 22, 2006)

Activities

 * Founder editor of the Digital Classicist community, promoting collaboration between computer science and the study of the ancient world. Administrator and editor of the Stoa Consortium weblog.
 * Organised Digital Classicist Summer seminar series at the Institute of Classical Studies (2006-2013), and panels at various conferences (Classical Association 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011; Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts, 2008; Digital Humanities, 2009, 2011; American Philological Association, 2010)
 * Organizer of the internal seminar series, Department of Digital Humanities (2005-present)
 * Organizer of the History Down the Pub seminars (2013-).
 * Technical Council of the Text Encoding Initiative (2007-2013)
 * Steering committee of the British Epigraphy Society (2005-2012)
 * One of the architects of the EpiDoc Collaborative, schema and guidelines for the encoding of ancient epigraphic and papyroological documents in XML
 * Technical Observer on the Pleiades Project, providing geographical information on the ancient world
 * Co-organiser of the Open Source Critical Editions workshop, sponsored by the Methods Network (September 2006)

Previous projects include

 * Consultant, Integrating Digital Papyrology, 2008-11.
 * Research Associate and co-author, Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, 2007-12.
 * Research Associate, Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR), 2010-11.
 * Researcher, Authorship Attribution for Lysiac Corpus, 2010.
 * Domain researcher, Linking and Querying Ancient Texts (LaQuAT), 2008-9.
 * Domain researcher, gMan, 2010.
 * Technical Lead, Concordia, 2008-9.
 * Principal Investigator, DDH subcontract, Integrating Digital Papyrology, 2007-8.
 * Research Associate and co-author, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, 2004-7.
 * Research Assistant and technical adviser on the Imagines Italicae project, Institute of Classical Studies (2003-2004)
 * Research Assistant on the Liber Vitae Dunelmensis project (2003-2004)
 * Research Associate on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, University of California, Irvine (2000-2001)
 * XML and XSLT work with the DDH research Team
 * Has also taught Greek language and literature at several colleges both in London and elsewhere.