2017/01/01 by Paula Loreto Granados García, Granados García, Paula Loreto
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Digital Scholarly Edition #Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction #Language and cultural evolution
paper · doi:10.18716/ride.a.7.2
openalex publication_date 2017/01/01 · openalex created_date 2024/12/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
The Hesperia project makes available worldwide a corpus of Paleohispanic inscriptions coming from the Iberian Peninsula that were never accessible to this extent in an online format before. As a collaborative effort of several Spanish universities, the resource constitutes a useful tool for Classic linguistic researchers, also suitable for archaeologists and historians due to the character of the material that it compiles. Epigraphic inscriptions and coin legends are provided as well as metadata and documentation about the resource. Despite Hesperia describes itself as a databank, this review opens a discussion about its typology for considering this an interesting question to reflect on, regarding the current debate on the digital paradigm. Since Hesperia was conceived in the late 1990s, there is scope enough for improvement both regarding the database interface and the software that lies behind it. Other possible implementations regarding data management, interoperability and contextualisation are also considered through the possibilities offered by Linked Open Data technologies.