NeoLatin Colloquia From Incunabula to Podcasts by William

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) Our webpage: www. rch. uky. edu/ • Assistance from Perseus Digital Library

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 • Quick. Time Movies • Creation of a repository containing all the necessary parerga. • Bibliographies • Biographies • Essays

What are Colloquia Scholastica? • 15 th/16 th 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

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

Tools for using the Colloquia • Text • TEI compliant XML editions • Perseus Hopper • Podcasts • AIFF/MP 3 files • RSS feed • Quick. Time Movies

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 of the original texts to be linked with xml-files.

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.

Podcasts • Contraction of i. Pod and broadcasting • Online or offline listening and viewing • Automatic updates

Creating a Podcast • The audio file • Dramatic reading… • Recording via Sound. Studio • Creation of AIFF files → MP 3 • Creation of an RSS feed • xml file enabling syndication • http: //www. stoa. org/colloquia/podcasts/channel-01. xml • Podcast subscription via i. Tunes • Our audio files are also available via our Feed. Burner as simple MP 3’s • http: //feeds. feedburner. com/Colloquia

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: • Quick. Time, Real. Player and Flash. • Apple’s video i. Pod

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.

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…