We are pleased to announce that our PhD student Andrea Farina has been awarded the ‘Initiative of the Year’ prize by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities for his workshop Data Driven Classics: Exploring the Power of Shared Datasets (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/data-driven-classics-exploring-the-power-of-shared-datasets), which took place at King’s College London on 5 July 2024.
The event was supported by a Faculty Group Event Grant (£1,960.34), and Andrea has received other funding (£989.84) to re-organise the event on 27 June 2025 (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/data-driven-classics-interdisciplinary-connections-through-shared-data-workshop). The workshop brought together PhD students and Early Career Researchers from all around Europe. The aim was to raise awareness of the importance of datasets, data papers, and data sharing within the field of Classics, and contextually to guide classicists in identifying, using, and creating datasets.
Data Driven Classics contributed to Andrea’s commitment to advancing open access research, particularly in Classical studies. The main takeaways of the workshop have been the object of a publication:
Farina, Andrea, Paola Marongiu, Mathilde Bru, and Daniele Borkowski. 2025. When data meets the past: data collection, sharing, and reuse in Ancient World studies. Open Information Science, 9, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0014.