ShareTweet Gregory CraneProfessor of ClassicsTufts UniversitySeptember 3, 2019 I am writing to report that the Perseus Digital Library had the honor of receiving support for an NEH Digital Humanities Level 3 Project: “Beyond Translation — new possibilities for reading in … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory CraneTufts University — Fall 2019Greek 1: Introduction to Ancient Greek and the Homeric IliadMWF: 9:00-10:15Eaton Hall 209 Are you interested in studying a new language in fall 2019? Whether you want to try something different for your language … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane May 1, 2018 At the end of March 2018, my collaborators and I finished enjoying five years of support — 5,000,000 EUR(!) — from an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, support which allowed young researchers from many different … Continue reading
ShareTweet On March 15, Eldarion released the initial version of the Scaife Digital Library Viewer. The release is, of course, a first step, but this first step changes the world in at least two fundamental ways: (1) Perseus is alive … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane March 15, 2018 Leipzig, Germany I am pleased to announce the first release of the Scaife Digital Library Viewer, a reading environment for source texts that follow the Canonical Text Services (CTS) data model. Our initial focus … Continue reading
ShareTweet Gregory Crane February 24, 2018 Who is using Clarin (https://www.clarin.eu/) and/or Dariah (https://www.dariah.eu/), and particularly the German subprojects https://www.clarin-d.net/de/ and https://de.dariah.eu/, to work with historical languages? If so, are you doing so as a funded member of Clarin or … Continue reading
ShareTweet Alison Babeu called my attention to a recent blog by a Princeton Classics undergrad that really captured a major challenge and opportunity for a new Perseus. Solveig Lucia Gold described her own reaction to the ups and downs of … Continue reading
ShareTweet Monday, September 11, 2017 (update): Eldarion.com has received the lead contract to develop the new Scaife DL Viewer. In this we build upon work already underway for a dynamic reading environment for Greek and other languages: https://github.com/deep-reader/DeepReader/wiki/A-Reference-Model-for-Capabilities-of-Online-Readers. We expect, … Continue reading
ShareTweet Late in 2016, we published plans for Leipzig to publish a request for proposals to begin work on what could be viewed as a new version of Perseus — something we have been calling Perseus 5.0 — but that … Continue reading
ShareTweet Beginning in Fall 2017 Applications due: February 15, 2017 General information: http://ase.tufts.edu/classics/graduate/digitalTools.htm In September 2016, we announced the creation of a new MA at Tufts University (“Considering a post-bac in Classics? Think about the new MA in Digital Tools … Continue reading