Open-Source ScholarTHON report and project winners
In the link below, we present the report on the scholarTHON (A collaborative space for researchers and developers to explore questions in depth, develop ideas rather than products, and think together about how digital tools can support research) which we organised on 2 and 3 June 2026.
Here is a summary of the two open-source projects that were selected as the winners of the event:
A cross-modal “grammar of sacrifice”
This project explores whether a cross-modal “grammar of sacrifice” can be identified across ancient Greek vase paintings, tragic texts and modern performances of ancient Greek drama. Using AI and multimodal machine-learning tools, the team analyses images, texts and audio-visual material together to identify recurring patterns associated with sacrificial events, from gestures, body postures and movement sequences to objects, keywords and narrative structures. By creating a shared representational space for these different forms of evidence, the group hopes to uncover new connections across media and time, and to develop new digital methods for studying complex multimodal events in Classics and beyond.
Claire Barnes · Francesca Beretta · Matilde Mossali · Alica Mueller · Carla Suthren
Britain’s landscapes of remembrance
This project examines how Britain’s memorial infrastructures create distinct landscapes of remembrance, and asks whether different forms of memorialisation are associated with particular spatial, social and linguistic patterns. Combining corpus linguistic analysis, location classification and computer vision, the team investigates how memorial inscriptions, identities and landscape characteristics intersect across large-scale crowdsourced datasets. In doing so, the project aims to establish a reusable framework for studying memorial culture that can inform heritage practice, public policy and future interdisciplinary research into memory and place.
Abdulrahman Alsayed · Anna Malpas · Matilda Peruzzo