Digitizing the act of papyrological interpretation: negotiating spurious exactitude and genuine uncertainty.
Digital papyrology encompasses artefact digitization and digital support for its interpretation. Digitization is never neutral, and this article presents how, within the e-Science and Ancient Documents project (eSAD), we are developing a software tool that strives to support the act of interpretatio...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 349 - 359 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2011
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