Stones, Monks and Maps: DH Research at The University Of Sofia And Its Developing MA Curriculum Dimitar Iliev, PhD Dobromir Dobrev St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

The Centre of Excellence in the Humanities (2010-2018) Faculties of History, Classical and Modern Languages, Journalism, Geography, Law; 6 research programmes; Technological Ecosystems in the Humanities; Cross-disciplinary approaches; Researchers with diverse background – Dimitar Birov, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics; Maria Baramova, Grigor Boykov Faculty of History; Dimitar Iliev, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Dobromir Dobrev, Center of Excellence in Humanities. On project basis, this group works with historians, philologists – both classical and Slavic, archaeologists, geographers and other researchers in fields such as GIS, epigraphy, software engineering, computer linguistics etc.

DH Initiatives: H-GIS of Thrace

DH Initiatives: Telamon project – a database of ancient Greek inscriptions from Bulgaria

DH Initiatives: Zograf Digital Archive

International Summer Schools in EpiDoc and Digital Humanities in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017  creating an international scholarly network

- Overlapping research interests and/or teams - Common tools - National and international collaborations

The concept of our DH MA programme Attracting and creating experts on an international level Sharing and enhancing expertise Aimed at: historians, linguists and philologists, archaeologists Project work – experience – collaboration – training – collaboration – project work Core of obligatory disciplines: Introduction to programming Introduction to DH Script Languages and Information Extraction (XSLT/JavaScript/JQuery) Markup Languages and Transformations (HTML, XML, XSLT) Architecture of Web Applications for Publishing and Storage of Knowledge (HTML/web design/blogging) Меtаdata and terminology Remote sensing and distant methods in the Humanities GIS and digital cartography Digital culture and media

Optional courses: Logic Good Practices In Archaeological Excavation And Interpretation Digital Archives Τext Aligning/ Text Corpora/Text Mining 3D Modelling TEI EpiDoc TEI Markup and Editing of Manuscripts Creation, Editing and Use of Electronic Dictionaries Treebanking Digital Gazetteer: Creation and Use in Ottoman Studies and Other Disciplines Digital Numismatics Digital Resources and Socio-Economic History H-GIS and Ancient History Regional Networks of Social Interaction Network Analysis of European Ancient History and Archaeology Creation, Processing and Use of Speech Corpora

Contacts: Thank you! Dimitar Illiev – dimitar.illiev@gmail.com Dobromir Dobrev – dobri@dobri.eu Thank you!