Category Archives: Call for Participation

Digital Editions in Practice, A Two-Day Workshop

ShareTweet Call for applications: Digital Editions in Practice, A Two-Day Workshop The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University will host a two-day workshop that provides an overview of a sample, practical digital editions creation workflow. This will feature both an … Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on January 31, 2019
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2018 NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities – Apply Now

The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University invites applications to “Digital Editions, Digital Corpora, and new Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond” a two-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 16-27, 2018).  This institute will provide participants the opportunity to spend two intensive weeks learning about a range of advanced new methods for annotating textual sources including but not limited to Canonical Text Service Protocols, linguistic and other forms of textual annotation and named entity analysis.  By the end of the institute, participants will have concrete experience applying all of these techniques not just to provided texts and corpora but to their own source material as well. Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on December 11, 2017
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Unleash Open Greek and Latin! January 3, 2018

“Deconstructing the Open Greek and Latin Project: The First Thousand Years of Greek”

An AIA-SCS Pre-Meeting Workshop, presented in coordination with the SCS 


January 3, 2018, 9:00 to 5:00, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Interested in open access, the digital humanities, or conducting digital scholarship in your research and/or teaching?  Aren’t sure what these topics have to do with classics or archaeology, or even how to get started?  Then, please consider joining us next January 3 at the AIA-SCS pre-meeting workshop “Deconstructing the Open Greek and Latin Project”!
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by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on September 19, 2017
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Design Sprint for Perseus 5.0/Open Greek and Latin

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, however, to award several smaller contracts to supplement this work. More (hopefully) soon. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 22, 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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Call for Papers – “Open Conference on Digital Infrastructures for Global Philology”

The Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, Germany, will host an “Open Conference on Digital Infrastructures for Global Philology” from February 20-23, 2017 at the University of Leipzig. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the larger scholarly community, both within and outside of Germany with a focu Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on October 12, 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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Digital Classicist Seminar New England, Spring 2015

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the third series of the Digital Classicist New England. This initiative, inspired by and connected to London’s Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar, is organized in association with the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University. It will run during the spring term of the academic year 2014/15. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 1, 2014
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