Federico Aurora

• Aurora, Federico (2017). Aegean scripts in a digital era, In Yannis Galanakis; Anastasia Christophilopoulou & James Grime (ed.),  Codebreakers and groundbreakers.  Fitzwilliam Museum.  ISBN 9781910731093.  5.  s 52 - 57
• Aurora, Federico (2017). pa-ro, da-mo. Studying the Mycenaean Case System through DAMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo), In Marie-Louise Nosch & Hedvig Landenius Enegren (ed.),  Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies Copenhagen, 2-5 September 2015.  CNR Edizioni.  ISBN 9788880802754.  Scripts, Palaeography and Research Tools.  s 83 - 98 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Aurora, Federico (2015). DĀMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo). Annotating a fragmentarily attested language. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.  ISSN 1877-0428.  198, s 21- 31 . doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.415 Vis sammendrag

  This article describes DĀMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo), the first annotated corpus of all published documents in Mycenaean Greek, the oldest attestation (ca. 1450-1150 BCE) of a Greek dialect and the second oldest of an Indo-European language. Mycenaean is fragmentarily attested through ca. 5900 administrative documents written in an own syllabic script. The particular characteristics of the documentation pose important technical and methodological questions regarding acquisition, structuring, storing and annotation of the data. Both problems and solutions presented here can hopefully be of interest for future work with other similarly fragmentary documentation, be it Greek, Latin, or other ancient languages.

• Aurora, Federico (2011). S’at ven in meint? Considerazioni sull’uso e la funzione del dialetto nella canzone popular italiana degli ultimi cinquantʼanni. Arena Romanistica.  ISSN 1890-4580.  8, s 232- 253
• Aurora, Federico (2009). Norga, Noreg & Norge. Le diverse lingue della poesia in Norvegia. Hebenon-Rivista Internazionale di Letteratura.  ISSN 2035-1623.  (3-4), s 83- 95 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.

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• Aurora, Federico & Palumbo, Alessandro (2020). ENCODE: Bridging the <gap> in Ancient Writing Cultures: ENhance COmpetences in the Digital Era. Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents a newly started Erasmus+ project, whose overarching aim is to promote the use of digital methods in the preservation and study ofpre-modern written texts. Traditional disciplines in the humanities like philology, palaeography and epigraphy are increasingly embracing digital change, developing and using new tools and methods to approach their objects of study. However, these innovations require new competences and training both for students and researchers in the rapidly evolving field of Digital Humanities and AI. The ambition of the ENCODE project is to establish a collaborative and shared platform for the teaching and learning of these digital competences. To reach this goal, a partnership has been established between six universities (Bologna, Parma, Würzburg, Leuven, Hamburg, Oslo), that will organize a series of events, conferences and training sessions during the period 2020-2023, which will also be open to participants from institutions outside of the six project partners. The project and the events planned will lead to three main outcomes:1) The surveying of existing competences and practices in the teaching of digital methods applied to the study of pre-modern texts.2) The formulation of a shared definition of digital competencies needed by academic staff and students involved in programmes focusing on written cultural heritage.3) The design and testing of teaching modules,both basic and advanced, paired with guidelines and examples of best practices for their employment at other universities, making the modules customizable and transferable.

• Aurora, Federico (2019). Launch of the new online version of DAMOS, Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. Vis sammendrag

  DAMOS, Database of Mycenaean at Oslo, is a database containing all published Mycenaean texts in transcribed form, based on current standard editions, but updated with any new published joins, readings and findings. Its first aim is thus to offer an online, freely accessible and constantly updated version of the Linear B texts. DAMOS is, further, also a tool for the philological and linguistic analysis of the Mycenaean documents and to this end the texts are provided with detailed epigraphic and linguistic annotation (morphological, syntactic and lexical) and a rich set of metadata. The first online version of DAMOS (https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/) was launched in 2013 and allows text-browsing and word searches through the entire corpus or a chosen sub-corpus. Links to other web resources containing pictures of the documents are also provided. The new online version of the database, which will be presented in the talk, will offer much bigger search possibilities. A wider range of metadata (including, e.g., find-place, chronology, seal impression and museum inventory) can be used to define a sub-corpus for browsing or word-searches, and word-searches can now be specified for a broad variety of epigraphic features (e.g. uncertainty of reading or presence of restored characters). Finally, this new version of DAMOS also supports searches for co-occurrences of words.

• Maravela, Anastasia & Aurora, Federico (2018). Gammelt nytt fra Universitetsbibliotekets papyrussamling. Klassisk Forum.  ISSN 0801-3179.  (2), s 114- 116
• Aurora, Federico (2017). Mycenaean Epigraphy Online: DAMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo).
• Aurora, Federico (2016). Chronological and geographical annotations in DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo.
• Aurora, Federico (2016). Organizing complexity. On some challenges in the linguistic annotation of Mycenaean Greek texts..
• Aurora, Federico (2016). The University of Oslo Library Papyrus Collection.
• Aurora, Federico (2015). DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo.
• Aurora, Federico (2015). DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents DĀMOS, the first annotated corpus of all the published texts of Mycenaean Geeek, the earliest attested Greek dialect (ca. 1450 - 1150 B.C.). Mycenaen texts are generally administrative documents, written mostly on clay tablets. They have been found within the remains of the Mycenaean palaces both on Crete and mainland Greece. They amount to something less then 6000 documents, but many of them are brief or fragmentary. They are written in Linear B, a syllabic script, not related to the later Greek alphabets, which was first deciphered in 1952, but in scholarly practice they are conventionally transliterated into Latin letters. It is important to remark that although Linear B as a writing system seems to have worked well as a tool for recording and retrieving administrative information, it is not, in fact, a very efficient instrument for rendering the phonetic system of Greek, presenting many inaccuracies and deficiencies in this regard. The language of the documents, the oldest attestated Indo-European language after Hittite and the only attested Greek dialect of the II millennium B.C., presents several archaic and interesting linguistic features and poses some questions crucial for the history of Greek , which, especially because of the mentioned limitations of the content of the documents and the shortcomings of the writing system, are still in need of an appropriate answer. To create the database, text files with current standard editions as starting point – but extensively revised and updated with new findings, new joins and new readings – have been imported into a relational database (Sql). The texts have then been (partly semi-automatically, partly manually) annotated for morphological, syntactic and lexical information for each word, phrase and sentence. A rich set of metadata (hand attribution, find place, chronology, etc.), including detailed epigraphic information on all textual levels (from syllable, to word, line and document level) has also been imported or entered, which is available for searches and can thus be crossed with more strictly linguistic data. An important feature of DĀMOS is that it allows for multiple analyses of a given linguistic unity to be stored and retrieved. Thus, for example, different hypotheses for the meaning or the grammatical value (e.g. case) of a word can be entered and ranged according to different criteria. This feature is, indeed, essential for work with a corpus like the Mycenaean one, where script ambiguities and scanty texts make interpretations often uncertain and dependent on context and intertextual comparison. The linguistic interpretation of a given phenomenon (e.g. the expression of spatial relations in Mycenaean) can, indeed, depend on competing variants of a net of hypotheses (the hypothesized number of cases, the hypothesized phonemic value of certain graphemes, etc.) and implications; it is then crucial to be able to test and compare the different possible linguistic interpretations by varying the value of certain (sets of) analyses in performing complex database queries. An online version of DĀMOS is accessible at: https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/index/about

• Aurora, Federico (2015). DĀMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo). An online annotated corpus of Mycenaean Greek.
• Aurora, Federico (2015). DĀMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo). Annotating a fragmentarily attested language.
• Aurora, Federico (2015). DĀMOS, an annotated corpus of Mycenaean Greek.
• Aurora, Federico (2015). pa-ro, da-mo. Studying the Mycenaean Case System through DĀMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo).
• Aurora, Federico & Karnava, Artemis (2015). DĀMOS: An Annotated Database of Mycenaean Greek (Linear B) Inscriptions at the University of Oslo, Norway.
• Gasparini, Andrea A. & Aurora, Federico (2015). Reconstructing the ancient site of Tebtunis: dislocated knowledge production.
• Aurora, Federico (2014). DAMOS: An Annotated Database of Mycenaean at Oslo.
• Aurora, Federico (2014). DĀMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. Complete online corpus and innovative tool for the linguistic analysis of Mycenaean Greek. Vis sammendrag

  DĀMOS is the first annotated, searchable electronic corpus of all the published Mycenaean texts, providing an innovative tool for the analysis of their language. Text files with current standard editions as starting point, but extensively revised and updated with the many new joins, readings and findings, have been imported into an Sql-database, together with the data conveyed by editing conventions, so that important metadata and epigraphical information relative to the contexts of syllable/syllabogram, word, line and text is available for searches. The texts have then been (partly semi-automatically, partly manually) annotated for morphology and syntax and will subsequently also be provided with a translation and additional lexical information (e.g., the Indo-European root, if reconstructible) for each word. A relevant feature of the database is that it allows for multiple analyses of a given linguistic unity: e.g. different hypotheses for the meaning or the grammatical value of a word can be entered and ranged according to their grade of probability. This feature is essential for work with a corpus like the Mycenaean one, where script deficiencies and scanty texts make interpretations often uncertain and dependent on context and intertextual comparison. A first online version is since February 2013 accessible at https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/index/about.

• Aurora, Federico; Nesøen, Asgeir; Nedic, Damir; Løken, Heidi & Bersi, Andrea (2013). DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. [www ]. Vis sammendrag

  DĀMOS (Database of Mycenaean at Oslo) aims at being an annotated electronic corpus of all the published Mycenaean texts, the earliest (ca. XV-XII B.C.) written evidence of the Greek language, comprised of inscriptions in the Linear B syllabic script.

• Aurora, Federico (2012). The DAMOS database of Mycenaean.
• Aurora, Federico (2011). DAMOS - Database of Mycenaean at Oslo.
• Aurora, Federico (2010). Fabrizio De André, Francesco Guccini e Francesco De Gregori: tre cantautori italiani.
• Aurora, Federico (2010). "S'at ven in meint?" L'uso del dialetto nella canzone italiana contemporanea.
• Aurora, Federico (2009). Kasussystem i mykensk.
• Aurora, Federico (2009). Le canzoni italiane in dialetto.
• Aurora, Federico (2008). Norga, Noreg & Norge. Le diverse lingue della poesia in Norvegia.

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