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An Embarrassment of Riches:
Crowds, Communities, and Curation
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Arrival of a Portuguese ship

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Big Data, Small Data
l“Will the use of digital methods lead to an erosion of our most unique facility in the
humanities, the aptitude for fine-grained and careful interpretive observation?”
l“Humanities scholars make theoretical and practical advances … by forwarding
carefully observed, exquisitely described jewel-box examples. Our small data add
nuance and offer counter-narratives ... The finest contribution of the past several
decades of humanities research has been to broaden, contextualize, and challenge
canonical collections and privileged views. Scholars do this by elevating instances of
neglected or alternate lived experience.”
lBethany Nowviskie, Capacity Through Care
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Voskos, E38
Subject: Aphrodisia (of Cyprus)
Date: 7
th
- 6
th
century BCE
Title: Aphrodisia's Epigram
Findspot: Amathus, Cyprus
[ … ]

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Voskos, E38
Start: -750
Title: Aphrodisia's Epigram
Stop: - 600
https://test.perio.do/#m63njp6pz
Label: Cypro Archaic I
https://base.europeana.eu/agent/123
Label: Aphrodisia (of Cyprus)
Object Type: Agent
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707462
Label: Amathous, Cyprus
Type: Settlement

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Voskos, E38
Start: -750
Title: Aphrodisia's Epigram
Stop: - 600
https://test.perio.do/#m63njp6pz
Label: Cypro Archaic I
https://base.europeana.eu/agent/123
Label: Aphrodisia (of Cyprus)
Object Type: Agent
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707462
Label: Amathous, Cyprus
Type: Settlement
Sex: Female

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EP112. Deeds of the
Deified Augustus
VC96. Epitaph of
Caracalla
EP631.
In Memoriam for
Livia
Voskos E38.
Aphrodisia's Epigram
Sappho, frag. 94:
“Honestly, I wish I were
dead”
Imperial Epitaphs
Women and Mourning

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EP112. Deeds of the
Deified Augustus
VC96. Epitaph of
Caracalla
EP631.
In Memoriam for
Livia
Voskos E38.
Aphrodisia's Epigram
Sappho, frag. 94:
“Honestly, I wish I were
dead”
Imperial Epitaphs
Women and Mourning

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28 April 2016
With input slides from
Valentine Charles, Antoine Isaac & Hugo Manguinhas,
Europeana R&D team