The evolution of digital technologies in all sectors of society, including education, implies a paradigm shift in teaching methods. In Portugal, the new national curriculum for Portuguese language teaching at Elementary School level highlights the role of technologies, considering that these new methods, “require mastery of multiple literacies, namely digital and computer literacies – associate...

This paper explores the approach of the Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) project to the publication and analysis of the tradition of wisdom literatures in ancient Greek, Arabic, Spanish, and other languages. The SAWS project edits and presents the texts digitally, in a manner that enables linking and comparisons within and between anthologies, their source texts, and the texts that draw upon them...

0. Introduction The upsurge of text circulation in the electronic environment has been attracting the attention of various fields of investigation in recent years. Historians have observed the role of digital texts in transforming the cultural practice of writing and reading; the cognitive sciences have investigated digital formats as knowledge representation models; literary studies have inter...

The production of digital critical editions of texts using TEI is now a widely-adopted procedure within digital humanities. The work described in this paper extends this approach to the publication of gnomologia (anthologies of wise sayings), which formed a widespread literary genre in many cultures of the medieval Mediterranean. These texts are challenging because they were rarely copied strai...