Connected Contests: Ancient Athletes Online
Connected Contests: Ancient Athletes Online
Connected Contests is a website hosted yesteryear the University of Groningen, amongst the ultimate aim of serving every minute a collaborative tool for specialist studies on ancient athletics in addition to festivals, including spatial in addition to network analyses. The website volition allow users to shout upward prosopographical in addition to geographical information nearly athletes in addition to festivals via a user-friendly interface. The website connects amongst other sites and contains prosopographical links to Trismegistos (www.trismegistos.org - University of Leuven, Mark de Pauw), amongst spatial links to Pleiades (pleiades.stoa.org/home - Stoa Consortium, Tom Elliot), epigraphic links to the PHI Greek Inscriptions (epigraphy.packhum.org - Packhard Humanities Institute) in addition to volition live on linked amongst the Hellenistic athletes database (http://mafas.geschichte.uni-mannheim.de/athletes/index.php?page=search - University of Mannheim, Christian Mann, Sebastian Scharff).
Connected Contests is business office of an ongoing projection divided into phases:
We are currently inwards Phase 1. The immediate aim is to compile an on-line prosopographical database of ancient athletes in addition to performers inwards the Roman globe based on reference collections in addition to epigraphic corpora. The initial focus was on the blueprint of the database in addition to ont systematic collection, updating in addition to digitisation of existing collections of bear witness for item types of victors, such every minute Olympic victors, in addition to Isthmian victors. So far nosotros accept concentrated on entering the information on the Isthmian victors.
- Phase one (2017) - blueprint online database of ancient athletes in addition to performers
- Phase 2 (planned) - integration of spatial searches in addition to interface allowing for user input
- Phase iii (projected 2018-2020) - expansion amongst additional festival data
Follow our progress on our blog.
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