Category Archives: Announcement

Perseus Catalog records added to VIAF

ShareTweet We are pleased to announce that records from the Perseus Catalog have beed loaded into VIAF as “the first set of personal names from a scholarly resource.” More information on this milestone may be found here: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3455 Our thanks to OCLC … Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on November 25, 2013
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Publishing Text for a Digital Age

As a follow-on to “Working with Text in a Digital Age,” an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities, and in collaboration with the Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig, Tufts University announces a 2-day workshop for on publishing textual data that is available under an open license, that is structured for machine analysis as well as human inspection, and that is in a format that can be preserved over time. Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on October 28, 2013
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New courses on Digital Philology at the University of Leipzig

The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig is developing a sequence of English-language courses on digital philology that will begin in the Wintersemester and Sommersemester of the 2013/2014 academic year. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 17, 2013
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Announcing The Perseus Catalog, release 1.0

The Perseus Digital Library is pleased to announce the 1.0 Release of the Perseus Catalog.

The Perseus Catalog is an attempt to provide systematic catalog access to at least one online edition of every major Greek and Latin author (both surviving and fragmentary) from antiquity to 600 CE. Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on June 18, 2013
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Jobs at the Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities

In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized and we are pleased to announce two positions: one for someone to supervise systems and text processing workflow; the other for someone with expertise in interactive design. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on May 8, 2013
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“Reinventing Humanities Publication Project” receives €1.1 million grant from the Saxon Ministry of Science and European Social Fund

The Saxon Ministry of Culture has awarded the University of Leipzig a €1.1 million grant, with support from the European Social Fund and from the State of Saxony, to form an early career research group to help develop new methods of publication, predicated upon open data and open access, for the Humanities in general and for students of historical languages such as Greek and Latin in particular. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on May 2, 2013
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The Open Philology Project and Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at Leipzig

The Humboldt Chair inaugurates an Open Philology Project with three complementary efforts that produce open philological data, educate a wide audience about historical languages, and integrate open philological data from many sources: the Open Greek and Latin Project organizes content (including translations into Classical Arabic and modern languages); the Historical Language e-Learning Project explores ways to support learning across barriers of language and culture as well as space and time; the Scaife Digital Library focuses on integrating cultural heritage sources available under open licenses. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on April 4, 2013
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