The project brings together philologists, historians of philosophy, and digital humanists who shape the Plutarch Metaphor Observatory.
Julia Doroszewska
Principal Investigator
Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
Philologist of Greek literature steering the research questions, supervision, and scholarly dissemination.
Bartosz Maćkiewicz
Lead developer & data architect
Thinking of Thinking Digital Lab
Designs the pipeline from QDPX ingest to the Shiny applications, oversees infrastructure, and curates data releases.
Katarzyna Kuś
Research coordinator
Institute of Philosophy, UW
Aligns conceptual modeling with close reading, co-authors guidelines, and manages coder training.
Orestis Katarzoglou
Corpus fellow
Classical Philology
Prepares diplomatic texts, validates witness variants, and maintains the authoritative IDs for Explorer entries.
Laurens van der Wiel
Corpus fellow
Digital Classics
Segments metaphor units, audits annotation consistency, and documents edge cases for the coding manual.
Angelina Gerus
Corpus fellow
Humanities Data Lab
Leads paraphrase QA, checks lexical tagging, and supports knowledge transfer to new annotators.
Collaboration
Network & partners
- Faculty of History IT support and Humanities Data Lab.
- Visiting scholars from Leuven, Ghent, and Oxford contributing annotation rounds.
- Workshops with CLTK / DH developers to align tooling.
Get involved
Contribute expertise
We welcome guest annotators, translators, and educators who want to reuse the corpus in teaching. Write to observatory@uw.edu.pl with a short description of your interest.