[4] Also, the success of traditional scholarly publications in digital guises, such as seen in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review,[5] and the early adoption of hypertext in high profile projects like the Perseus Digital Library[6] helped to legitimize computing in the study of classics in ways that has not always been the case in other areas of the humanities.
This apparent paradox may be as a result of the many methodologies and different sources of evidence that classicists have always had to embrace, from literary sources and linguistics, to art history and archaeology, history, philosophy, religious theory, ancient documents such as inscriptions and papyri, and so forth.
The fragmentary nature of many of the texts and languages of the ancient world, the scattered evidence from the material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, and the necessity to evaluate all these varieties of evidence in context are particularly likely to benefit from digital approaches such as databases, text markup, image manipulation and machine learning.
There are currently several major projects that aim to encourage and develop digital approaches to classical scholarship.
The Stoa Consortium at the University of Kentucky distributes news of the discipline, and serves as a peer-reviewed electronic publication venue, and encourages open source approaches to digital classics.