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Neo-Latin Colloquia From Incunabula to Podcasts by William du Cassé and Ross Scaife

Neo-Latin Colloquia From Incunabula to Podcasts by William du Cassé and Ross Scaife. Research and Computing in the Humanities. The team: Dr. Ross Scaife (Director- Classics) William du Cassé (RA- Classics) Dot Porter (Program Coordinator for the Research and Computing for the Humanities team)

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Neo-Latin Colloquia From Incunabula to Podcasts by William du Cassé and Ross Scaife

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  1. Neo-Latin ColloquiaFrom Incunabula to PodcastsbyWilliam du CasséandRoss Scaife

  2. Research and Computing in the Humanities • The team: • Dr. Ross Scaife (Director- Classics) • William du Cassé (RA- Classics) • Dot Porter (Program Coordinator for the Research and Computing for the Humanities team) Our webpage: www.rch.uky.edu/ • Assistance from Perseus Digital Library

  3. The Colloquia Project • Creation of an extensive electronic library containing XML-editions of all texts pertaining to the genre. • Identification of an overlooked genre • A unique collection • Creation of tools for the use of Colloquia by researchers and in the classroom. • Electronic editions • Podcasts • QuickTime Movies • Creation of a repository containing all the necessary parerga. • Bibliographies • Biographies • Essays

  4. What are Colloquia Scholastica? • 15th/16th century didactic dialogues • Created by Renaissance Humanists • Erasmus, Vives, Corderius, Pontanus… • Objectives: • Teach the “sermo quotidianus” • Teach idiomatic expressions • Revive pure classical Latin • Teach children good morals

  5. Our Collection • Existing Colloquia: • The most known sets of Colloquia (Erasmus, Vives, Corderius, Mosellanus.) • Some less known Colloquia (Pontanus, Corvinus, Cervantes de Salazar, Fontanus, Popo, Duncanus.) • ca. 650 dialogues. • Soon to come: • Niavis, Aelfric, Schottenius, Van Torre, Heyden, Crocus, Barlandus… • Identified but not yet in our possession: • About 20 identified sets still in original print. • http://www.stoa.org/colloquia

  6. Tools for using the Colloquia • Text • TEI compliant XML editions • Perseus Hopper • Podcasts • AIFF/MP3 files • RSS feed • QuickTime Movies

  7. The Texts • Markup: • ‘Text Encoding Initiative’ compliant. • Drama DTD • Perseus 4.0 Hopper • Archiving and displaying • Browsing, Searching, Concordance, Dictionary look-up… • Extended Markup – Future. • Specialized Drama DTD including • markup for dates, locations (generation of maps, timelines etc…) • Keywords/Topics for advanced searches. • Page images • Page images of the original texts to be linked with xml-files.

  8. Editorial Practices • TEI Header • Editorial practices indicated in the header of each file. • General Practice: • Typos systematically corrected using ‘corr’ and ‘sic’ tags. • Page breaks included for quoting. • Hyphenated words reformed silently. • Diphthongs separated for easier searching. • Spelling • Original spelling has been retained, though conventional spelling is being integrated.

  9. Podcasts • Contraction of iPod and broadcasting • Online or offline listening and viewing • Automatic updates

  10. Creating a Podcast • The audio file • Dramatic reading… • Recording via SoundStudio • Creation of AIFF files → MP3 • Creation of an RSS feed • xml file enabling syndication • http://www.stoa.org/colloquia/podcasts/channel-01.xml • Podcast subscription via iTunes • Our audio files are also available via our FeedBurner as simple MP3’s • http://feeds.feedburner.com/Colloquia

  11. Multimedia Colloquia • Synchronization of sound and text via SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language). • Creation of audio file • Processing of TEI file through an XSL stylesheet to create SMIL file that embeds the transcript of the colloquium and refers to the external audio file. • Use of audio file editor to identify start and end times for each spoken text section • Use of text editor to add time stamps to the transcript of the colloquium embedded in the SMIL file. • Deployment: • QuickTime, RealPlayer and Flash. • Apple’s video iPod

  12. Parerga • Bibliographies • Main bibliography: Scholarship related to the genre. • Specific bibliographies for each author and set of Colloquia • Biographies • Composition of a short biography for each author • Essays • Different essays on related topics, papers written by students of the Institute for Latin Studies.

  13. Why use Colloquia today? • Modern language teaching: • Total Immersion • Active learning • Combination of all aspects of the language: • Reading • Writing • Hearing • Speaking Because Latin is a Language…

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