Amidst all the turmoil, I'm just now learning about the sad passing away of Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog), an excellent scientist and a great champion of #openscience. I'll remember him by this impressive presentation he gave at the 2018 #DARIAH AE. RIP! youtube.com/watch?v=UEEcwR…

"The Scaife viewer is an interface to a corpus that is in ongoing development, but also, the viewer itself is in ongoing development. In other words, neither of these is complete, and there are bugs in the software" sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/06/11/int…

Yesterday's #SunoikisisDC session introduced Cylleneus, a #Python library for conducting complex queries that can integrate with plain and treebanked corpora and makes use of various WordNets of ancient languages. github.com/SunoikisisDC/S…

Cybele relief from one of its best-preserved ancient sanctuaries in Dionysopolis (today's Balchik, Bulgaria). The corpus of ca. 80 inscriptions from the temple dating from 4. c. BCE to the time of the emperor Licinius (4. c. CE) is soon to be published by Nikolay Sharankov

The last #DigiClass seminar with Will Garrood about #prosopography, digital prosopography and the new 'factoid' prosopographic approach applied to Socrates Scholasticus' 'Ecclesiastical History' youtube.com/watch?v=d277nr…

In the past weeks almost all pandemic restrictions in Bulgaria were lifted. Consequently, the infection skyrocketed, tourist flights were cancelled, and now we return to obligatory masks. You can't fix economy without protecting public health, you'll end up with both in ruins.

Now, speaking of monuments and statues, there's the reverse issue of postcolonial heritage in the museums of Britain and, indeed, a great part of the so-called 'developed world'. It is given a brilliant stand-up treatment by James Acaster youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkU…

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Currently attending the 'Modelling and Uncertainty in Digital Humanities' webinar organised by Cristina Vertan and her team. Manfred Thaller is now presenting his model for the formal description of fuzzy historical data. inf.uni-hamburg.de/inst/dmp/herco…

Now: Walter Hahn on dealing with vagueness in multilingual historical manuscripts and editions (based on Dimitre Cantemir's works)

Now: Wieslawa Duzy on building geospatial models based on uncertain document data

Now Davor Lauc on similarity relation in connection with fuzzy logic in processing temporal expressions

Second day of the Vagueness and Uncertainty workshop. Now Michael Piotrowski giving an invited talk about historical and historiographical uncertainty (facts vs. causal construction)

Now: Umberto Straccia on treating fuzziness in semantic languages

Francesca Lisi on fuzzy quantifiers in sentences

Fairouz Zendaoui on quantifying uncertainty in historical resources: a case study on claims on heritage sites in online sources

Fernando Bobillo presenting a tool for processing fuzzy ontology

Last but not least: Franziska Diehr on modelling vagueness in the deciphering of classic Mayan hieroglyphs

Rednecks in power always neglect public health safety: Trump, Borissov...

In March, the Council of the Faculty of HSS of the University of Zagreb selected Prof. Neven Jovanović as the new dean with a 90% majority. The Rector of the University refused to give his consent to this selection. Please, support Prof. Jovanović. secure.avaaz.org/community_peti…