To forge connections between Big Ancient Mediterranean (BAM) and other digital humanities projects and to give digital scholars working across fields an opportunity to share their expertise and establish best practices for their projects, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies partnered with two other groups to hold a conference June 6-8.

The conference featured scholars from across the world who have developed open-source projects that help scholars better study classical texts. These researchers shared their work with 15 fellow scholars of classics, geography, GIS, world languages and literatures, and the spatial humanities, discussing both the advantages and challenges of using linked open data in humanities research.