Roman Open Data: una herramienta para la formación del alumnado universitario

Abstract

Within the framework of the Archeology degree course at the University of Barcelona, a series of practical activities are proposed to provide students with a series of techniques and knowledge that they can apply in future work and research. It was Antonio Aguilera, one of the original developers of the CEIPAC amphoric epigraphy database, who promoted its use as part of a hypothetical activity where university students were faced with the discovery of an inscription on ceramics in an archaeological excavation. This would allow them to know the management of the digital corpus essential to read and understand the Latin epigraphic texts where to find parallels related to the inscription. This concomitance would allow them to be able to date the archaeological strata, to know the type of product that reaches the excavation and what was the distribution of the food containers. Here the practice is transferred to the Roman Open Data portal (https://romanopendata.eu), an exploratory interface developed within the framework of the European EPNet project that allows geolocation of epigraphic searches on a map, consulting through the use of computational tools to be able to analyze epigraphic data on amphorae to members of the academic community, while promoting the principles and practices of Open Science in the context of Digital Humanities.