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Teaching with the Perseids Platform: Tools and Methods Marie-Claire Beaulieu - Tufts University Associate Editor, Perseus DL [email protected]

Digital Classicist London Seminars 2013 - Seminar 8 - Marie-Claire Beaulieu

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Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University) 'Teaching with the Perseids Platform: Tools and Methods'. Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies seminar 2013, Friday July 26th. By enabling the collaborative edition, translation, and annotation of Greek and Latin source documents by teams of students and scholars, the Perseids platform offers a new pedagogical model for Classics in which students participate directly in the creation of knowledge. This presentation will discuss two use cases of the Perseids platform and their implementation in class at Tufts University. The first use case, in which a class collaborates to edit and publish ancient documents online, offers students an occasion to step out of the traditional reading list of Classical authors by processing non-canonical materials such as manuscripts and inscriptions. To do so, they must use their language skills in a flexible manner that emphasizes fluency and problem-solving (e.g. to resolve abbreviations or reconstruct lacunae). Students must also use their analytical skills to write commentaries and annotations on the documents they edit. The second use case, dynamic syllabi using managed resources, lets professors assign texts for students to read and annotate, design tests, and gather data for student evaluation. In language classes, dynamic syllabi can be used to assign a selection of passages and compile a vocabulary list for these passages. As the students work through the assigned passages, they learn the vocabulary included on the lists and keep track of their progress in their electronic portfolios. They also annotate assigned sentences that include the target vocabulary and a set of pre-defined grammatical constructions through the Treebanking module. The data thus collected lets the professor design tests and quizzes targeted to the passages read by the students and the grammatical constructions they have learned. In large lecture-hall classes such as mythology courses, dynamic syllabi can include primary source material (in translation or in original languages) for each subject discussed during the semester. As they read through the assigned texts, students track their progress in their ePortfolios and can be tested at appropriate moments. In addition, the professor can assign supplementary optional materials and ask the students to annotate the text or write a short essay as proof of their work. These comments, annotations, and essays can later be used to spark further discussion about the materials in class and, if approved by the professor, are made available online as aids to the reader.

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Teaching with the Perseids Platform: Tools and Methods

Marie-Claire Beaulieu - Tufts University Associate Editor, Perseus DL

[email protected]

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Needs and Purpose

Scholarly

• Edit and study large amount of source documents

– Greek inscriptions

– Latin manuscripts

• Make the documents widely available to students, scholars, and the public

• Keep high editorial standards and respect the best practices in the field

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Needs and Purpose

Pedagogical

• Step outside of the traditional canonical texts

• Interact online with instructors and peers

• Create a motivating learning experience while contributing to scholarship

– Publication online and in students’ electronic portfolios

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Special Concerns: Visual

• Inscriptions -Inscriptions are primarily monuments -Decoration and layout are meaningful • Manuscripts -Manuscript layout, illuminations, initials,

marginalia are meaningful • We must approach these documents not only as

texts, but as whole physical objects

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Pilot Project: January 2011

• Editing and translating the Tisch Miscellany

• Workflow was using Word documents

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14th century compendium of

English forest law,

Tisch Library Special

Collections, Tufts University

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New acquisition:

Justinian, 13th century, single leaf

50 lines of text with up to 88 lines

of gloss

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New acquisition: Unidentified text on geography, 14th century, Italy, a 4-leaf gathering

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Sarcophagus of Nedymos Thebes, 3-4th cent. AD

IG VII 2543-2545

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Platform and Software

• Adaptation of Son of Suda Online (SoSOL) • Editing software

• CITE services and integration with the Image Citation Tool

• Image citation software

• Re-using existing software, re-purposing: avoid re-inventing the wheel

• Open source project with Creative Commons (for

data) and GNU Public (for software) Licenses

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CITE services

•Developed by the Center for Hellenic Studies to support the Homer Multitext Project •CITE services and CITE/CTS to identify and link the resources in our platform and present the web interface

• (“Collections, Indexes, and Texts, with Extensions”) • (“Canonical Text Services” Protocol)

•The CITE URN syntax supports a citation scheme for images –Enables the identification in a single identifier of both the image and specific coordinates within that image

• Allows text mapping

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SoSol platform Son of Suda Online

Developed by the papyri.info team Provides support for collaborative editing Supports the TEI-based EpiDoc XML

standard

See: Bridget Almas, Technical Approach to Platform Integration http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2012/07/17/dighumtec/

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Use case 1. Collaborative editing Workflow: Sign in

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Choose a text to edit, emend, or translate

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Transcribe text Header is automatically populated

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Transcribe and map text using EpiDoc xml markup The Image Citation Tool is integrated to the editing platform

It automatically creates URNs for the mappings

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Recording URNs on Google Drive spreadsheet Temporary manual step to eventually be handled automatically by SoSOL

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Adding a translation

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Adding a Translation

Language-independent

Alpheios tools currently in place for Latin, Greek, Arabic

Prototypes: Chinese and Spanish

Considering extensions for Hebrew and Sumerian

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Adding a Translation

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Adding a Commentary

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Preview

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The SoSOL software sends the text to the board for review and approval

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Final: Edited Text and Translation

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Text and Commentary

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Alpheios language tools

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Zooming in on a word

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Archiving

• The texts are archived in Perseus and in the Tufts institutional repository

• We will institute an automatic process whereby the finalization process in the Sosol tool will trigger a push of the data to the Tufts Institutional Repository.

• We aim to leverage the versioning history and chain of authority provided by the SoSOL tool and workflow to meet the library requirements.

(the details of this process remain to be finalized)

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Version History

• All iterations of the texts are kept in the git repository.

• Only those that have been approved are actually finalized and saved in the master branch.

• Users currently have the choice to delete versions in their branches which have not been submitted or approved.

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Accessibility

The inscriptions and their translations will be available as a new collection on the Perseus Project site

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Planned Data Flow

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Use case 2: Dynamic syllabus A. Greek language class

Readings for each class made available online

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Dynamic syllabus for Greek language class with Alpheios tools

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Create a vocabulary list with Perseus tools

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Create a vocabulary list with Alpheios tools Compares vocabulary in two target texts in order to assign passages targeted

to a learner’s prior experience

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Morphological annotation with the Treebanking module

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Online quiz: align Greek with English

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Online quiz: parts of speech

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Online quiz: paradigm identification Incorrect guesses uncover the cell

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Online quiz: paradigm identification Selecting the correct answer reveals the entire table

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Electronic Portfolios

• Module currently under development

• Will keep track of all student contributions to editing, treebanking, commentary, etc.

• Can be used as record of performance in a class or throughout the curriculum

• Can be used as work sample for application to graduate school or job search

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Use case 2: Dynamic syllabus B. Classical Mythology course

Mandatory and optional readings for each lecture made available in one place

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The materials include both texts and artifacts from the Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser

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Students write short analytical essays

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Further use cases…. E.g. Fragmentary texts and text re-use (M. Berti)

http://classics.buffalo.edu/docs/Berti-Buffalo.pdf

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Conclusion

• The Perseids platform allows for the integration of teaching and research

• Introduction to digital humanities in classroom setting

• Available for any interested member of the public or the academic community outside of Tufts

• Leverages expertise in a variety of Tufts units: -faculty, students, librarians, computer scientists

• True collaborative effort in a virtual lab setting