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Mia Ridge started the topic OCR-based tasks on Zooniverse? in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoHey all,
The data scientists I’m working with are thinking about how Zooniverse tasks might fit into their NLP (natural language processing) research.
Until now, we’ve been working with images from digitised newspapers for our crowdsourcing tasks with this corpus / research area.
e.g. we run queries on metadata/OCR to find articles that might…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Media Systems and Genre Conventions in Transition: A German Priamel Booklet from Nuremberg, c. 1490 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAbstract: The manuscript Cod. Donaueschingen A III 19 of the Badische Landes-bibliothek Karlsruhe is a very thin booklet of six leafs in quarto format. It was written by a professional scribe in Nuremberg around 1490. The booklet is titled Priamel red (‘Priamel speech’) and contains a collection of gnomic texts in Early New High German. The mat…[Read more]
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Stephe Harrop deposited Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classicism, and The Small Back Room in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe film The Small Back Room was written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and released in 1949. It is the wartime tale of an injured and embittered back-room scientist, who is recruited to help combat a new kind of explosive device. Based on Nigel Balchin’s 1943 novel, the film significantly alters the story’s climactic seq…[Read more]
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Elodie Paillard deposited The Structural Evolution of Fifth-Century Athenian Society: Archaeological Evidence and Literary Sources in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe structure of fifth-century Athenian society remains largely unknown, as is the distribution of its citizens into different socio-political categories. Ancient literary sources mostly describe a society divided into élite and poor. However, the model of a society alternately dominated by
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Henry Colburn deposited A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.
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Elodie Paillard deposited Secondary Characters’ Rhetorical Skills in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis chapter examines the rhetorical skills displayed by secondary (low–status)
characters in the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. “Rhetorical
skills” are here broadly understood as the abilities required to have one’s voice heard and
one’s opinion taken into account. These speaking abilities contribute to the socio–pol…[Read more] -
Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited «De Camino a la Gloria: orígenes y sentido del Camino de Santiago en la Edad Media» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago«De Camino a la Gloria: orígenes y sentido del Camino de Santiago en la Edad Media». Ponencia invitada en la mesa redonda “Del Camino al Pórtico” organizada por la asociación SED Cultura, retransmitido desde la sede de Ediciones Encuentro el 10/6/2021.
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited Memoria de la pérdida de Granada: la Nubḏat (Ajbār) al-ʿaṣr in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEn el presente artículo se analiza una crónica que, pese a haber sido poco tratada en el mundo académico, constituye una importante fuente para el estudio de los últimos años del emirato nazarí de Granada desde el punto de vista andalusí: la Nubḏat (Ajbār) al-ʿaṣr. Escrita por un antiguo soldado granadino durante la primera mitad del siglo XVI en…[Read more]
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited El libro de Job y su recepción en el cristianismo medieval. Perspectivas y reflexiones sobre el sufrimiento humano y el mal in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn this work, we study the medieval Christian reception of the book of Job as a possible starting point for further reflections on the consideration and experience of suffering within the medieval religious worldview. After a presentation of the book of Job as a paradigmatic Judeo-Christian expression of the problem of human suffering —a u…[Read more]
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited Misión y cruzada en el pensamiento de Ramon Llull (1232-1316), una cuestión sin zanjar in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEn el presente artículo presentamos un estado de la cuestión (revisión bibliográfica y esbozo de una posible línea a seguir) acerca de las ideas de misión y cruzada y su interrelación (la manera en que se conjugan ambos conceptos, aparentemente contradictorios o excluyentes) en el pensamiento filosófico, político y misionero del mallorqu…[Read more]
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited «Auditu auris audivi te, nunc autem oculus meus videt te. Experiencia, encuentro y conocimiento a partir de Job 42,5» (8th SOFIME International Congress 2021) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago«Auditu auris audivi te, nunc autem oculus meus videt te. Experiencia, encuentro y conocimiento a partir de Job 42,5» VIII Congreso Internacional de Filosofía Medieval de SOFIME (Porto, 6-8 de septiembre de 2021).
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Ignacio Cabello Llano deposited Pobreza e injusticia social desde una mirada altomedieval: Isidoro de Sevilla in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEn el presente trabajo analizamos el tratamiento que hace Isidoro de Sevilla (c. 556-636), la más ilustre figura de la cultura hispanovisigoda, que ejerció un notabilísimo influjo durante todo el medievo a lo largo y ancho de la cristiandad, del problema de la pobreza y la injusticia social. En los dos primeros epígrafes estudiamos sus con…[Read more]
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Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Vom Verraten und Beraten. Æthelred the Unready (978–1016) im Urteil seiner Zeitgenossen in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoWas King Æthelred ‘the Unready’ seen as a failure by his contemporaries? The study looks at sources that were written during and immediately after Æthelred’s reign in order to see if the king was criticised or blamed for the misfortunes in the conflicts with the Danes. The most important authors to be considered are Ælfric of Eynsham and Archbish…[Read more]
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Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Herrscherwechsel und ihre Auswirkungen auf Diözesen. Worms und Köln um die Jahrtausendwende in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis is a case study on how the positioning of bishops in succession struggles had effects on the dioeceses. It looks at the dioeceses of Worms and Cologne during the three royal successions of Otto III (984), Henry II (1002) and Conrad II (1024).
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Henry Colburn deposited Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Filosofía pirata y trabajo editorial in the group
Digital Books on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis is an edited volume of essays on philosophy as university work and as a ‘pirate condition’. Taking inspiration from Gary Hall’s pirate philosophy, and from raúl rodríguez freire’s critique of the contemporary condition of the intellectual, three Mexican authors reflect on what it means to do philosophy today from the perspective of the m…[Read more]
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Aristocratic neo-Gothicism in fourteenth-century Iberia: the case of Count Pedro of Barcelos in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoOne of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507–711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in t…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited The pre-history of “small caps”: from all caps to smaller capitals to small caps in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis article describes the development of the typographical phenomenon of “small capitals” during the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century.
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited “Por mi Señora, la Reina Catalina.” Las donaciones de Leonor López de Córdoba al monasterio cordobés de San Pablo (1409) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDesde que Alan Deyermond, entre los años 70 y 80 del siglo pasado , consiguiera vencer toda reticencia académica para que la obra de Leonor López de Córdoba pasase de ser una delicada rareza literaria a ser introducida con pleno derecho en el canon de la literatura hispánica medieval , la investigación sobre la autora nacida en Calatayud, aunqu…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Collective wisdom: 'From crowdsourcing to digitally-enabled participation' in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSave the dates!
We’re starting planning in earnest for the workshop event that rounds off our project. Meghan has written a ‘save the date’ post that sets out the basics and some possible topics https://collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/save-the-date-collective-wisdom-workshop-20-22-october-2021/ including:
- Evidencing mental health and other…
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