Alison Babeu has served as the Digital Librarian and research coordinator for the Perseus Project since 2004. Before coming to Perseus, she worked as a librarian at both the Harvard Business School and the Boston Public Library. She has a BA in History from Mount Holyoke College and an MLS from Simmons College. Her current projects include the development of an open source library of classical texts and a FRBR-inspired catalog as part of the Mellon funded Cybereditions Project.
Selected Publications
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Babeu, Alison. "Building a "FRBR-Inspired" Catalog: The Perseus Digital Library Experience."(2008).
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Babeu, Alison, David Bamman, Gregory Crane, Robert Kummer, Gabriel Weaver, "Named Entity Identification and Cyberinfrastructure." in Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), (2007), pp. 259-270.
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Stewart, Gordon, Gregory Crane and Alison Babeu, "A New Generation of Textual Corpora: Mining Corpora from Very Large Collections."in Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries , (2007), pp. 356-365.
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Crane, Gregory and Alison Jones, "The Challenge of Virginia Banks: An Evaluation of Named Entity Analysis in a 19th Century Newspaper Collection."in Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, (2006), pp. 31-40.
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Mimno, David, Alison Jones, Gregory Crane. "Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog." in D-Lib Magazine(2005), 11 (10).
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Mimno, David, Alison Jones, Gregory Crane. "Finding a Catalog: Generating Analytical Catalog Records from Well-Structured Digital Texts."in JCDL '05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (2005), pp. 271-280.