About the eSAD Project

The Image, Text, Interpretation: e-Science, Technology and Documents project also known as eSAD (e-Science and Ancient Documents) aims to use computing technologies to aid ancient document expert at reading ancient documents.

The project will work on creating tools which can aid the reading of damaged texts like the stilus tablets from Vindolanda. Furthermore, the project will explore how a Interpretation Support System (ISS) can be used in the day-to-day reading of ancient documents and keep track of how the documents are read and why they are interpreted as they are.

The Project Investigator is Professor Alan Bowman from the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies in co-operation with Professor Sir Micheal Brady (Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford and the Wolfson Medical Vision Laboratory) and Dr. Melissa Terras (UCL, London).
Dr. Ségolène Tarte is Research Assistant on the project and is situated at the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC).
Henriette Roued  is Doctorate Student on the project and situated within the Classics Centre at the University of Oxford.