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Update on the new MA in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies at Tufts

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 for Premodern Studies at Tufts.” This new program builds upon the established programs in Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as Sanskrit and Classical Arabic (which faculty in the Tufts Classics Department also already support), students are not limited to working with only these languages.
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by Gregory Crane Posted on January 9, 2017
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A New Version of Perseus and Academic Partnerships

An earlier blog entry pointed to a draft description of work on a new Perseus that we expect will appear, in some fashion, as a formal Request for Proposals from Leipzig in early January 2017. One reason to circulate this description is to get feedback. A second is to be able to explore different approaches before any formal RFP emerges. The comments in this blog are thus provisional and suggest possible directions. They constitute no promises. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on December 22, 2016
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Draft for a Request for Proposals for a new Perseus Digital Library

ShareTweet We expect that Leipzig University will release a formal RFP early in January. Until and unless Leipzig University does so, there are no promises or guarantees of any kind. Our goal is to give the community a chance to … Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on December 21, 2016
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Upcoming Request for Proposals for a new Perseus Digital Library

The University of Leipzig is preparing to release a Request for Proposals from developers to begin work on a new version of Perseus. The proposed work will build upon the Canonical Text Services protocols in general and upon the CapiTainS Tool Suite and Guidelines for CTS in particular…. The proposed work builds upon the existing CTS server in the CapiTainS ToolSuite. The focus is primarily upon the interface. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on December 14, 2016
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Considering a post-bac in Classics? Think about the new MA in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies at Tufts.

Two years ago I published a blog entitled “So you want to become a professor of Greek and/or Latin? Think hard about a PhD in Digital Humanities.” Here I talk about something that we have done at Tufts to improve the situation, creating an MA in Digital Tools for Premodern Studies that allows students to address two common challenges: the need to read more Greek and Latin and to familiarize themselves with the digital methods upon which their teaching and research will increasingly depend in the decades to come. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 26, 2016
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Collaborating Courses on Fifth-Century Greek History in Spring 2016?

ShareTweet Call for Collaboration Gregory Crane Leipzig and Tufts Universities September 1, 2015 This is a preliminary call for comment and for participation. I expect to be teaching an advanced Greek course in Spring 2016, quite possibly on Thucydides. I … Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 1, 2015
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Open Patrologia Graeca 1.0

A first stab at producing OCR-generated Greek and Latin for the complete Patrologia Graeca (PG) is now available on GitHub… This release provides raw textual data that will be of service to those with programming expertise and to developers with an interest in Ancient Greek and Latin. The Patrologia Graeca has as much as 50 million words of Ancient Greek produced over more than 1,000 years, along with an even larger amount of scholarship and accompanying translations in Latin. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on August 7, 2015
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Essays on Digital Classics and Digital Humanities

ShareTweet Gregory Crane Professor of Classics and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship Tufts University Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities Open Access Officer University of Leipzig Comments to gcrane2008@gmail.com This link points a list and short summary … Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 28, 2015
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“Privashing” vs. publishing — in search of an accurate term for a problematic academic tradition

This is a short piece reflecting on the need to distinguish publication that actually maximizes the degree to which we make academic work public from the traditional practice of handing control over to commercial, often for-profit, companies that make money by restricting publication. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 28, 2015
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