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October 11, 2016  In preparation for our workshop in Toronto, Vanessa and Robert Gorman have produced a series of instructional videos on Treebanking. Read More


October 10, 2016 Bridget Almas and Fernando Rios of John Hopkins University write about data preservation and what the future holds for the data in Perseids. Read More


October 5, 2016 Perseids announces its second Teach the Teachers workshop, which will be held in August of 2017 Read More


September 20, 2016 Perseids announces our workshop held in conjunction with the SCS in Toronto. Read More


February 4, 2016 Marie-Claire and Bridget write about their experiences taking in each other’s shoes in “the Hacker and the Professor: Switching Roles” Read More


October 30, 2015 Marie-Claire Beaulieu responds to Bridget Almas’s “Hacker and the Professor” Post. Read More


October 27,2015 The Perseids Project is announcing a Call for participants for the First Teach the Teacher workshop. The Workshop will be held at the Universität Leipzig in April. Read more


October 16, 2015  Drew Latimer writes about his experiences in the classroom as a student treebank instructor. Read More


October 2, 2015 Bridget Almas’ post on collaboration between hackers and professors, and what it’s like to bridge the divide here at Perseids. Read More


September 3,2015 The Perseids team and Tufts University joined the Université Lyon II, l’École Française d’Athènes and Brown University for a three week field workshop in Greece this May. Read More


June 25, 2015 The Perseids team is delighted to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded a second two-year phase of development for the Perseids project. Read more.


May 4, 2015 The Perseids Project has released of the results of the Journey of the Hero pilot project, which combined undergraduate student research into Greek mythological characters with an adventure in reuse of annotation and visualization tools. Read More.


December 12, 2014 The Perseids team is thrilled to report that Arethusa has won the ELCH award and been designated the e-learning champion of the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz! See details at the official ELCH page of KF University.


November 18, 2014 The Perseids team is delighted to announce an award from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (http://www.kressfoundation.org/) for the Digital Milliet. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing the history, conservation, and enjoyment of the vast heritage of European art, architecture, and archaeology from antiquity to the early 19th century. We are grateful for the Foundation’s support as we begin our work on this exciting project.


November 14, 2014 Perseids Participates in Sunoikisis Europe. Read more.


October 10, 2014 Perseids used in Lyon: On October 10, 2014, Perseids was used by a class of Master’s students from the universities of Lyon to edit Greek inscriptions. The Perseids team traveled to Lyon as part of the Visible Worlds Project, “Research and Training in Digital Contextual Epigraphy”. Read more.


September 23, 2014 The Perseids team to collect texts relating to Greek and Roman painting. Read more.


September 19, 2014. Announcing the Arethusa Annotation Framework. Read more.


March 7, 2014 The Perseids and Pelagios teams held an in-class workshop with students in Marie-Claire Beaulieu’s Medieval Latin class and Maxim Romanov’s Geography of the Classical Islamic World. Read more.


March 5, 2014 Perseids is one of the projects discussed in this story on Digital Humanities at Tufts: Tufts Reimagines Humanities Using Tools of the Digital Age.