Neo-Latin Colloquia From Incunabula to Podcasts by William du Cassé and Ross Scaife

Research and Computing in the Humanities The team: –Dr. Ross Scaife (Director- Classics) –William du Cassé (RA- Classics) –Dot Porter (Program Coordinator for the Research and Computing for the Humanities team) Our webpage: Assistance from Perseus Digital Library

The Colloquia Project Creation of an extensive electronic library containing XML-editions of all texts pertaining to the genre. Identification of an overlooked genre A unique collection Creation of tools for the use of Colloquia by researchers and in the classroom. Electronic editions Podcasts QuickTime Movies Creation of a repository containing all the necessary parerga. Bibliographies Biographies Essays

What are Colloquia Scholastica? 15th/16th century didactic dialogues Created by Renaissance Humanists Erasmus, Vives, Corderius, Pontanus… Objectives: Teach the “sermo quotidianus” Teach idiomatic expressions Revive pure classical Latin Teach children good morals

Our Collection Existing Colloquia: The most known sets of Colloquia (Erasmus, Vives, Corderius, Mosellanus.) Some less known Colloquia (Pontanus, Corvinus, Cervantes de Salazar, Fontanus, Popo, Duncanus.) ca. 650 dialogues. Soon to come: Niavis, Aelfric, Schottenius, Van Torre, Heyden, Crocus, Barlandus… Identified but not yet in our possession: About 20 identified sets still in original print.

Tools for using the Colloquia Text TEI compliant XML editions Perseus Hopper Podcasts AIFF/MP3 files RSS feed QuickTime Movies

The Texts Markup: ‘Text Encoding Initiative’ compliant. Drama DTD Perseus 4.0 Hopper »Archiving and displaying »Browsing, Searching, Concordance, Dictionary look-up… Extended Markup – Future. Specialized Drama DTD including »markup for dates, locations (generation of maps, timelines etc…) Keywords/Topics for advanced searches. Page images Page images of the original texts to be linked with xml-files.

Editorial Practices TEI Header Editorial practices indicated in the header of each file. General Practice: Typos systematically corrected using ‘corr’ and ‘sic’ tags. Page breaks included for quoting. Hyphenated words reformed silently. Diphthongs separated for easier searching. Spelling Original spelling has been retained, though conventional spelling is being integrated.

Podcasts Contraction of iPod and broadcasting Online or offline listening and viewing Automatic updates

Creating a Podcast The audio file Dramatic reading… Recording via SoundStudio Creation of AIFF files → MP3 Creation of an RSS feed xml file enabling syndication Podcast subscription via iTunes Our audio files are also available via our FeedBurner as simple MP3’s

Multimedia Colloquia Synchronization of sound and text via SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language). Creation of audio file Processing of TEI file through an XSL stylesheet to create SMIL file that embeds the transcript of the colloquium and refers to the external audio file. Use of audio file editor to identify start and end times for each spoken text section Use of text editor to add time stamps to the transcript of the colloquium embedded in the SMIL file. Deployment: QuickTime, RealPlayer and Flash. Apple’s video iPod

Parerga Bibliographies Main bibliography: Scholarship related to the genre. Specific bibliographies for each author and set of Colloquia Biographies Composition of a short biography for each author Essays Different essays on related topics, papers written by students of the Institute for Latin Studies.

Why use Colloquia today? Modern language teaching: Total Immersion Active learning Combination of all aspects of the language: »Reading »Writing »Hearing »Speaking Because Latin is a Language…