Category Archives: Announcement

Announcing the Digital Tools for Premodern Studies program at Tufts University

ShareTweet We are pleased to announce the Digital Tools for Premodern Studies program at Tufts University. Applications being accepted now. http://asegrad.tufts.edu/academics/explore-graduate-programs/digital-humanities

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on September 20, 2016
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Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond

We are very pleased to invite you to attend the conference and workshops
Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond

Leipzig, November 4-6, 2015 Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on October 13, 2015
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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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Getting to open data for Classical Greek and Latin: breaking old habits and undoing the damage — a call for comment!

This blog post addresses two barriers that prevent students of historical languages such as Classical Greek and Latin from shifting to a fully open intellectual ecosystem: (1) the practice of giving control of scholarly work to commercial entities that then use their monopoly rights to generate revenue and (2) the legacy rights over critical editions that scholars have already handed over to commercial entities. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on March 4, 2015
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Sunoikisis DC 2015

Sunoikisis is a successful national consortium of Classics programs developed by the Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies. The goal is to extend Sunoikisis to a global audience and contribute to it with an international consortium of Digital Classics programs (Sunoikisis DC). Sunoikisis DC is based at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. The aim is to offer collaborative courses that foster interdisciplinary paradigms of learning. Master students of both the humanities and computer science are welcome to join the courses and work together by contributing to digital classics projects in a collaborative environment. Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on February 4, 2015
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