The GRaF project (2017-2019), short for Graz Repository of Ancient Fables, was a citizen science project that aimed to build a repository and digital edition of ancient fables. It was conceived as both a scholarly and learner-facing digital edition. In this project, I was responsible for the technical implementation and developed the platform together with the project team. I also wrote much of the documentation on the web portal (Lang, 2020), resources created within the project (Lang, 2020), how to use (Lang, 2020) and the technical documentation itself (Lang, 2020).
This short paper introduces the Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln (GRaF, 2017–2019) project and web platform.
@inproceedings{LangGartner2023GRaF,author={Lang, Sarah and Gärtner, Ursula},title={Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln (GRaF, 2017–2019)},year={2023},booktitle={Digitale Edition in Österreich},editor={Klug, Helmut and Bleier, Roman},series={Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik (SIDE) 16},publisher={Books on Demand},address={Norderstedt},pages={190--192},keywords={classics, digital classics, fables, antiquity, Latin},url={https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/70469},}
This short paper introduces the Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln (GRaF, 2017–2019) project and web platform.
@online{Lang2021GRaF,author={Lang, Sarah and Gärtner, Ursula},title={Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln (GRaF, 2017-2019)},year={2021},editor={Klug, Helmut W. and Galka, Selina and Steiner, Elisabeth},booktitle={KONDE Weißbuch},url={https://www.digitale-edition.at/o:konde.p21},note={hdl.handle.net/11471/562.50},keywords={classics, digital classics, fables, antiquity, Latin, GRaF}}
This paper addresses the role and function of digital media in the teaching and communicating history by examining the didactics of classical philological literature as a special case of history education. Using the Graz Repository of Ancient Fables (GRaF) as a case study, it explores broader questions concerning the definition, function, and scholarly status of digital educational resources. The paper situates the GRaF project within the Digital Humanities and considers how it should be conceptualised: Can it be described as a "digital textbook," or does it qualify as a genuinely digital scholarly edition? These questions are linked to the broader issue of the place of subject-specific educational resources within the Digital Humanities. The paper further examines how classical philology and Open Educational Resources intersect in the GRaF project, arguing that GRaF constitutes a sustainable, scholarly, and genuinely digital OER. Finally, it discusses licensing in the context of open educational resources, the role of citizen science, and the transferability of the project’s methodological approach to other subject areas.
@inproceedings{age2020,author={Lang, Sarah},title={Die Fabel lehrt -- Fabula docet. Das Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln als fachdidaktische digitale Ressource},year={2020},booktitle={Funktion und Aufgabe digitaler Medien in Geschichtswissenschaft und Geschichtsunterricht},editor={Matijević, Krešimir},publisher={Computus Druck},address={Gutenberg},series={Abhandlungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV, 3},pages={103--116},url={https://www.computus-druck.com/press/gesamtprogramm/reihe-aage/funktion-und-aufgabe-digitaler-medien-in-geschichtswissenschaft-und-geschichtsunterricht/}}
Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im altsprachlichen Unterricht I: Technische Spielräume am Beispiel ‚Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‘ (GRaF)
Sarah Lang and Lukas Spielhofer
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (zfdg), 2020
The topic of teaching and learning in digital spaces has already been discussed extensively in the past few years. By now, digital methods have been well established in both academic research and school education. However, the implementation of the recently gained insights from the field of media didactics into the theory and practice of teaching Greek and Latin has largely been neglected. Very little attention is paid in particular to the field of digital resources, Open Educational Resources respectively, when it comes to teaching methodology in Classics. Therefore, this article – as the first part of an interdisciplinary analysis – aims at approaching these digital media from a Digital Humanities point of view. It is primarily focused on terminology and definitions in order to determine the technical possibilities of digital educational resources for use in classes of classical philology. The only recently completed digital edition of the ›Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‹ (GRaF) (›Graz repository of ancient fables‹) will be used as an example.
@article{graf2020zfdg,author={Lang, Sarah and Spielhofer, Lukas},title={Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im altsprachlichen Unterricht I: Technische Spielräume am Beispiel ‚Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‘ (GRaF)},year={2020},journal={Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (zfdg)},volume={5},url={https://zfdg.de/2020_004},keywords={classics, digital classics, fables, antiquity, Latin, GRaF},doi={10.17175/2020_004}}
Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im altsprachlichen Unterricht II: Didaktische Spielräume am Beispiel ‚Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‘ (GRaF)
Lukas Spielhofer and Sarah Lang
Ianus: Informationen zum altsprachlichen Unterricht, 2020
The topic of teaching and learning in digital spaces has already been discussed extensively in the past few years. By now, digital methods have been well established in both academic research and school education. However, the implementation of the recently gained insights from the field of media didactics into the theory and practice of teaching Greek and Latin has largely been neglected. Very little attention is paid in particular to the field of digital resources, Open Educational Resources respectively, when it comes to teaching methodology in Classics. Therefore, this article – as the secibd part of an interdisciplinary analysis – aims at approaching these digital media from a didactics point of view. The recently completed digital edition of the ›Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‹ (GRaF) (›Graz repository of ancient fables‹) is used as an example.
@article{ianus2020graf,author={Spielhofer, Lukas and Lang, Sarah},title={Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im altsprachlichen Unterricht II: Didaktische Spielräume am Beispiel ‚Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‘ (GRaF)},journal={Ianus: Informationen zum altsprachlichen Unterricht},year={2020},volume={41},keywords={classics, digital classics, fables, antiquity, Latin, GRaF},pages={31--43},}