Heisenberg meets reading

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1 Heisenberg meets reading Gregory Crane Professor of Classics Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship Adjunct Professor of Computer Science Editor in Chief, Perseus Project

2 January 12, In meiner Arbeit beschäftige ich mich mit fünf lateinischen Prosaautoren und der Art, wie sie Zitate verwenden. Mein Ziel ist es, über eine große und breit gestreute Auswahl an Zitaten ein allgemeines Bild darüber zu gewinnen, was Zitieren in einer literarischen Kultur bedeutete, die zwar zitiert, aber kein Wort besitzt, das unserem "Zitat" entspräche. Dazu habe ich ca Zitate als Datensätze in eine Datenbank aufgenommen und ein theoretisches Modell des Kommunikationsvorgangs "Zitieren" entwickelt, auf dessen Grundlage ich einzelne Aspekte wie Markierungsstrategien, Wiedergabetreue, Referentialität in Bezug auf die zitierten Texte u.v.a. untersuche.

3 January 12, allerdings ist meine Datenbank in erster Linie ein Hilfsmittel für mein Projekt und nicht das Ziel oder Arbeitsergebnis. Das Projekt selbst ist literaturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtet und zielt auf eher auf das Zitieren als Kommunikationsprozess als auf (einzelne) Zitate.

4 Elected a Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities in the Computer Science Department for Leipzig, Germany...

5 Elected a Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities in the Computer Science Department for Leipzig, Germany......to help Europe defend against Anglo-American cultural domination

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7 German and English traditions

8 German and English traditions The instructor is not there to serve the student. Rather, both student and instructor are there to serve Wissenschaft. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1809)

9 German and English traditions The instructor is not there to serve the student. Rather, both student and instructor are there to serve Wissenschaft. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1809) Liberal education of the upper class is the great panacea for present and future evils classical scholarship is still, what it was, a characteristic of the higher classes in this country. John William Donaldson (1856)

10 German and American traditions

11 German and American traditions Early professionalism and specialization

12 German and American traditions Early professionalism and specialization vs. Emphasis on longer breadth

13 German and American traditions Early professionalism and specialization vs. Emphasis on longer breadth greater dissemination of mathematical skills

14 Heisenberg Publishing Every reader adds to what was there before What q uestions have been posed? What passages have been read? What contributions have been made?

15 Breadth (i.e., scale) 10m books / 5.5 m unique titles 400 languages 2.3 billion global users Even for Greek and Latin 90,000 titles 3.5 billion words

16 Depth

17 Depth

18 Depth

19 What is to be done?

20 Leipzig A City of Music

21 Leipzig For centuries an International publishing center

22 The Trillion Word Library (ESF) Leipzig University Library (lead) Language Technologies Group (CS) Visualization Group (CS) Work packages High-performance Canonical Text Services FRBR/CTS Repository Temporal-spatial visualization Aligning HathiTrust with German public domain

23 Micro-publications (ESF) Humboldt Chair (lead) Use of gaming strategies to decentralize the production of data and to integrate learning with contributing to research. Builds upon Son of Suda Online distributed editing platform.

24 Free Greek and Latin Project 1+ versions of every work surviving through 600 CE C. 200 m words (100m unique, 100m from multiple editions) Opportunistic collection of later Greek and Latin Alignment of page-images with text

25 Free Greek and Latin Project Current Partners German Archaeological Institute Leipzig Tufts Center for Hellenic Studies

26 Completely New Curriculum : Digital Philology Undestanding the past through written sources Natural language but also music and math Digital Altertumswissenschaft Integrating the material record Particular focus on one year visiting grad students/2 year postdocs via Erasmus

27 Open Access Classics Publishing 1. Metadata generation from standard docs 1. Quotes, citations, people, places, etc. 2. English, French, German, Italian 2. Digital Antiquity Publication Series 1. When PDF is not enough Fragmentary authors, data-driven philology etc 3. [Current] Partners 1. German Archaeological Institute 2. Center for Hellenic Studies

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