Research project archive
Details of past earlier major research projects.
Multilingualism
Investigating Multilingualism in Complementary Schools in Four Communities.
Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction (UCCI)
This research forms part of the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme.
Aphrodisias project
Professor Charlotte Roueche has worked for many years on the inscriptions from the site of Aphrodisias, in south-western Turkey. The abundance of the material makes conventional publishing a very expensive option; so, following the example of the Vindolanda Tablets project on which John Pearce has worked, she has been developing the online publication of the Aphrodisias inscriptions, with the support of colleagues in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. An initial publication was made possible by an initial grant from the Leverhulme Trust, followed by a grant from the AHRC: the resultant second edition of her monograph, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, is available online. A full corpus of all the inscriptions from the site was published in summer 2007.
An essential element in this project has been to develop guidelines to make it simple and inexpensive for other scholars to produce similar publications, in a robust and sustainable format. The group has therefore been working with colleagues at the Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Institute fr the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, to develop and publish guidelines for the publication of inscriptions in TEI-compliant XML - a schema called EpiDoc.
In a new project, which began in May 2007, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, this partnership will be working to produce a digital publication of the inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica, with particular focus on plotting and displaying geographical information.
The group is also working to investigate such publication for other materials: in 2006-7 Charlotte and Andrew Meadows of the British Museum received a grant from the AHRC to run workshops to discuss the implementation of a similar schema for coins. A report on the project appeared in the English language Turkish Daily News.
Prosopography of the Byzantine World
The second edition (2006.2) of the database was produced by the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project in December 2006. This edition completed the inclusion of published archival material from the monasteries of Mt Athos, and that relating to Nea Mone (Chios). It added basic treatment of Byzantine Italy till the capture of Bari (1071).