Peter Coveney - Welcome
Hey day of attendance was 2004 - but then it was compulsary to attend if you had fundng.
But this year the maximum number of papers were submitted.
Paper flyers kept to a minimum from sponsors, by distributing them oll on a 1GB usb flash drive
Gregory Crane et al - "Cyberinfrastructure for Global Cultural Heritage"
et al - 10 co-authors, 6 Organisations, UK, EU, US
Qualitatively new instruments eg treebanks .. database of language / word relationships
"Greatest Classicist of 20th Century" is probably / reputably an Islamic leader of Teheran .. but that hypothesis is untestable in a classical studies sense!
How man scholars could work on the question - what is the influence of Plato and the Classicists on Islamic thought in Teheran? - no tools available today - too much data, too many languages
Text mining came be used within a language .. but v difficult for Plato's quotations present in modern Arabic or Farsi!
ePhilology -- production of objectified knowledge from textual sources - eg a million books, including historic texts in there many historic editions through multiple languages.
eg 25k days in a lifetime, book a day reading = 40 lifetimes, harvard has 10m books = 400 lifetimes to read.
but what about 10 thin poetry books in 10 languages - just misunderstanding them requires not only languages, but also the back social history of each of the 10 authors.
Classics Goals 5-10 yrs
Memes .. cultural analogue of gene.
.. million book library of memes .. facts and fantasy and religion and texts and organisations and words and their evolution in meaning over history and place
.. Memographs / Memologies .. but creating these will require automatable and uncheckable - by human - eg do we have ocr of syriac
.. so technically one could now create a Plato memography across all languages and time .. would take time and $$s but we believe we have the tools.
.. for the first time we can confront Plato's challenge .. written words are inert, like a statue, it may be lifelike but if you ask it a question it is silent .. for the first time we can start to pose questions of text and have a machine extract answer from the text , the written word.
.. pdf is true incunabular form .. it is digital but essentially the same as their printed predecessors.
.. what does a post-incunabular digital document look like? ,, 'books talking to each other' in an equivalent way that the authors of a set of books talked and discussed and that lead to their writing. ie 4th gen digital collections knows the difference between Washington uk vs Washington us place and person, from context and automatically links to look-up & explain if the user wans it. they include 3d models of inscriptions .. scanned .. ocr .. xml all together engineered as a unit.
library vs archive
library concept changes with time originally had written , then printed, now digital actionable objects with open computation fundamental
archive is static
google books is a large archive
open content alliance is a digtal library - with a lousy front end, but it is actionable.
min features of publication -- peer review, sustainable format (eg TEI XML), open licensing (creative commons), sustainable storage - persistence.
"Scaife digital library" does the above.
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