Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-02-20
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[01] ToposText app nominated for 'Best use' category of 'Digital
Humanities Awards'
[01] ToposText app nominated for 'Best use' category of 'Digital
Humanities Awards'
The webpage and application ToposText has been nominated for the
international "Digital Humanities Awards 2016" in the category of
"Best Use of Digital Humanities for Public Engagement", the Aikaterini
Laskaridis Foundation announced on Monday.
ToposText, the brainchild of former U.S. diplomat and scholar at the
American School of Classical Studies Brady Kiesling, is an innovative tool
allowing users to access thousands of mythical and historical locations
relevant to the ancient Greek world - from ancient cities and shrines,
medieval castles and towers, modern museums and excavation sites - in
Greece and other locations, along with a slew of ancient texts referring
to them, with one click on the smartphone.
The application links those places to the ancient authors who wrote
about them in Greek or Latin, using a huge library of ancient texts
married to a detailed gazetteer.
The DH Awards are annual digital awards where the public nominates
resources for the recognition of talent and expertise in the digital
humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the
public. They are overseen by an international Nominations Committee
comprised of five university professors from educational centers around
the world.
The app was built by IT company Pavla AE and was supported by the
Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation.
Public voting is open until midnight on February 25,
2017, and the entire list of nominees can be found at
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2016/voting/. Voting is open on the link:
https://goo.gl/TVge7z
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