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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 06 March 2009 18:05 |
We are delighted to unveil the new Hephaistos Text, which we intend to become a central hub for the pursuit of open scholarship in the classics. Please take a look around, especially the Libanius Translation Project, which is a collaborative effort to translate the entirety of Libanius's corpus, beginning with the Declamations.
Please see the Mission Statement, too, which offers our vision of new directions for the field of classics, the humanities in general, and greater academic labor.
At this blog, Open Source Classics, we will begin anew postings on the implementation of open source philosophy and technology in our scholarship. We are currently looking for guest contributors, so feel free to contact us with proposals for a posting or series of postings.
All of Hephaistos Text's information means little, though, without the vigorous exchange of ideas. We know well that there is no shortage of excitement (and criticism) of technology's relationship to scholarship. This conversation is very important and needs to be brought into the light, out of department hallways and graduate student happy hours. For this reason we have opened up Community Forums (yes, we know, the Latin plural is fora!), where there are forums dedicated to each project at Hephaistos Text. There is even a forum for the discussion of yet-to-be created Hephaistos Text projects. We encourage all who would like to post to create an account, though doing so in not necessary.
Thank you for reading and please stay tuned for more!
David Andrew Collier, Editor-in-Chief
Kyle P. Johnson, Editor-in-Chief
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