Bodin Project starts digitizing Jean Bodin for the PDL A Tufts Innovates seed fund grant will help Yannis Evrigenis and the Bodin Project at Tufts University to digitize Jean Bodin’s Les six livres de la republique. The work, which was published … Continue reading
Perseids’ Fragmentary Texts Demo at DH-Case 2013 Bridget Almas and Monica Berti will be presenting a paper at DH-Case 2013 about the Fragmentary Texts Demo they have built using the Perseids environment for collaborative editing developed at the Perseus Digital … Continue reading
SAWS Project The international SAWS project has been funded by HERA, Humanities in the European Research Area. “The aim of the SAWS project is to present and analyse the tradition of wisdom literatures in Greek and Arabic. Throughout antiquity and the Middle … Continue reading
Imperial College Libhpc infrastructure workshop The Social Computing Group at Imperial College London will be holding a workshop on its infrastructure project libhpc, which develops some of the ideas for scaling trialled in DVE. Libhpc is a framework for running … Continue reading
Open Philology Project Gregory Crane, who was an investigator in DVE, has posted the research plan for his Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig, where he is Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities. This is a very exciting project, … Continue reading
Use of Perseids to Annotate Text Reuse Monica Berti, PhD. discussed using Perseids to annotate text reuse in her “Fragmenta Historica 2.0 Quotations and Text Re-uses in the Semantic Web” presentation at the Digital Classics Association conference in Buffalo, NY … Continue reading
DVE OCR in Leipzig Bruce Robertson presented the back-end work on his polytonic Greek OCR at a University of Leipzig symposium with co-author Federico Boschetti. Bruce Robertson and Federico Boschetti on Greek OCR at #eHum2012 twitter.com/Monica_Berti/s… — Monica Berti … Continue reading
Online Community Editing for Ancient Texts The Perseus Project has announced the development of Perseids: “…a web-based, fully audited, version-controlled editing environment built on the Son of SUDA Online (SoSOL) platform, originally developed for the papyrological community but designed for applicability … Continue reading
OCR for 19th century Greek Bruce Robertson has published some preliminary results of a survey of OCR techniques for 19th century Greek.
Proteus Project Take a look at DVE’s sister project at the Proteus Project at UMass Amherst. Proteus is “an infrastructure to enable library patrons to discover and find connections within and across books. Examples include finding how quotations occur over … Continue reading
