Publications

To learn more about Hestia, see the following links:

‘Digital Classicist’ seminar, King’s College London, 2009: download this talk as an mp3 file here; view the presentation slides here;
Digital Humanities programme, University of Würzburg, 2013: view the presentation here;
‘Wikidata meets Archaeology’ colloquium, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, 2013: view the presentation here.

i. Books

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (eds.) (In Press): New Worlds out of Old Texts: Approaches to the Spatial Analysis of Ancient Greek Literature. Oxford.

ii. Journal articles

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (2010): ‘Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA)’. Leeds International Classical Journal (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/lics/).

Barker, E.T.E., Bissell, C., Hardwick, L., Jones, A., Ridge, M. and Wolffe, J. (2012): ‘Digital technologies: help or hindrance for the humanities?’ Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 11,185–200.

Isaksen, L., Barker, E.T.E., Kansa, E. and Byrne, K. (2012): ‘GAP: a neogeo approach to classical resources’. Leonardo 45.1.

iii. Book chapters

Barker, E.T.E. (2013): ‘All mod cons: power, openness and text in a digital turn’. In L. Hardwick and S. Harrison (eds.), Classics in the Modern World: A ‘Democratic Turn’? Oxford.

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R., and Isaksen, L. (2013): ‘On using a digital text in modern humanities research: the case of Herodotus’ Histories’. In S. Dunn and S. Mahony (eds.), Digital Classicist Supplement: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Oxford.

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (2013): ‘Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories’. In: J.G. Heirman and J.J.H Klooster (eds.), The Ideologies of Lived Space: Ancient and Modern. Leiden.

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (2013): ‘Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea’. In: G. Tsetskhladze et al. (eds.), The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East. Oxford, 7-17

Simon, R., Barker, E.T.E. and Isaksen, L. 2012: ‘Exploring Pelagios: a visual browser for geo-tagged datasets’. E. Agirre, K. Fernie, A. Otegi and M. Stevenson (eds.), International Workshop on Supporting Users’ Exploration of Digital Libraries. Cyprus, 29-34.

iv. Other publications

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (2010): ‘Herodotus Earth: mapping and networking the Histories’. Iris (http://www.irismagazine.org/).

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (2010): ‘Herodotus Earth: the ancient world in Google’, Amphora: the outreach magazine of the American Philological Association.

Barker, E.T.E., Bouzarovski, S., Pelling, C.B.R. and Isaksen, L. (2011): ‘HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive): an interdisciplinary project’. In Research Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities: Science Policy Briefing of the European Science Foundation 2011.