Web 2.0

Sometimes it is difficult to explain the hype about web 2.0 etc. to students. I have seen this in techorati’s most popular videos: This is a quite brilliant introduction to “Web 2.0″, I am not sure I agree with the last sentence (“change ourselves”) but this is a subject of a different post.
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Byzantine texts and databases: case studies

Panel “Technology” at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London This was an overview paper about the use of databases and electronic texts in the field of Byzantine studies, in a panel organized by Michael Jeffreys. The powerpoint presentation is available as PDF-file.
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Register variation and the Grammar of Medieval Greek

Panel “Treasured words” at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London This paper has been submitted for publication to BMGS.
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XML-based transcriptions of medieval Greek manuscripts:Balancing the needs of different end-users.

Digital Classicist Work in progress seminar, Institute for Classical studies, London This was a paper for a seminar series of Digital Classicist. It was meant for publication for a special issue of the Digital Medievalist but was unfortunately never completed. The manuscript in question is discussed also on my talk on the Thematoepistolae. The...
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The first lexicographer of Early Modern Greek. Martin Crusius and his Alphabetum vulgaris linguae graecae

The Byzantine & Modern Greek seminar, King’s College London This paper was given as part of the Byzantine & Modern Greek Seminar Series organized by Prof. Roderick Beaton at King’s College London. It reproduces most of the material published in my PhD dissertation. The Powerpoint presentation is available as PDF-file.
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Building a database for the compilation of the Grammar of Medieval Greek

Building a database for the compilation of the Grammar of Medieval Greek. Language and corpora: an AHRC Workshop at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge This workshop was organized by the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project at King’s College London, the Greek Lexicon project, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and the Grammar of...
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Electronic resources for the study of Medieval Greek: achievements and limitations

Digital philology: Problems and perspectives. International conference at the TEUCHOS research centre, University of Hamburg I presented this overview paper at the conference organized by the TEUCHOS research project at the University of Hamburg. The Powerpoint presentation is available as PDF-file.
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Οι Θεµατοεπιστολές του Θ. Ζυγοµαλά στην Turcograecia του M. Crusius.

International conference on Ioannis and Theodosios Zygomalas, Άργος 1.-4. Ιουνίου 2006 This was a paper on a very interesting 16th c. manuscript from the archive of Martin Crusius in Tübingen. It is also discussed in my paper about XML-trancsriptions of manuscripts. You can download here a PDF-file of the slides used in this presentation.
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