Announcements

• January 3, 2012

  Tufts University invites applications to "Working with Text in a Digital Age", a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines traditional topics such as TEI Markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics. Faculty, graduate students, and library professionals are encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit proposals by February 15, 2012. Participant proposals must include CVs and statements of purpose (no more than 1,000 words) describing how they will be able to use participation in the Institute to advance their subsequent careers. Participants must be committed to collaborative work and to publication of results from this Institute under a Creative Commons license. Participants should identify source materials with which they propose to work during the Institute and which must be in the public domain or available under a suitable license. In an ideal case, source materials would include both texts for intensive analysis and annotation and one or more larger corpora to be mined and analyzed more broadly. Statements of purpose must describe initial goals for the Institute. For more information or to submit applications, please contact lisa dot cerrato at tufts dot edu.

  We particularly encourage participants who are committed to developing research agendas that integrate contributions and research by undergraduates, that expand the global presence of the Humanities, and that, in general, broaden access to and participation in the Humanities. Preference will be given to participants who are best prepared not only to apply new technologies but to do so as a means to transform their teaching and research and the relationship of their work to society beyond academia.

• November 9, 2011

  Announcing "Working with text in a digital age", an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Co-directors: Monica Berti and Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University.

  July 23-August 11, 2012 Tufts University, Medford MA

  This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which (1) to develop hands on experience with TEI-XML, (2) to apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the humanities, (3) to rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists.

  A call for applications will follow shortly.

• November 7, 2011

  Perseus is pleased to announce collaboration with the Pelagios and Pleiades projects. Please refer to the blog post for details.

  We have also recently addressed errors in the sort order of the Greco-Roman collection list and fixed a number of typographical errors, broken abbreviations and text links.

  Please note that due to the recent increase in amount of available morphological data on Perseus, we have run into resource limitations updating our frequency tables, so frequency scores may currently be inaccurate for many of the lemmas. We are working to address this problem as quickly as possible.

• September 23, 2011

  Perseus is pleased to announce the availability of the Thematic Index of Classics in JStor, an automatically generated index of themes in a collection of more than 130,000 research articles archived in JStor. This work was developed by David Mimno under the Cybereditions Project, an effort led by the Perseus Project at Tufts University and funded by the Mellon Foundation.

• September 19, 2011

  Perseus wishes to announce the publication of the first digital edition of Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon - the major English lexicon for Classical Arabic, now available under in TEI XML under a Creative Commons License. Perseus has published a number of lexica and lexicographic resources, including Salmoné's Arabic English Lexicon, but Lane's monumental lexicon for Classical Arabic posed particular challenges because of its organization according to roots rather than dictionary words. The resulting complications affected not only the structure of an inherently complex document but the services by which readers can find relevant words. Harry Diakoff of The Alpheios Project, Ltd. created a working TEI XML edition of Lane and integrated it with the Alpheios reading environment tools.

  Perseus also wants to highlight the release on Alpheios.net of key texts in Classical Arabic, including Book of Songs, Arabian Nights, Arabic Reading Lessons, The Autobiography Of The Constantinopolitan Story-Teller, Selection from the Annals of Tabari, Selections from Arabic geographical literature and Voyages D'Ibn Batutah. We wish to thank the Alpheios Project, Ltd. and Harry Diakoff, working with Bridget Almas and Zachary Himes (Tufts Class of 14).

• September 12, 2011

  Perseus is pleased to have an opportunity to provide one venue for access to the Poeti d'Italia collection (http://www.poetiditalia.it) -- 3.5 million words of Latin poetry from the early modern period in Italy, produced under a Creative Commons license under the direction of Professor Paolo Mastandrea, at the University of Venice.

  Thanks to a grant from the Google Digital Humanities program, Perseus is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions of works by Achilles Tatius, Aeneas Tacticus, Asclepiodotus, Barnabas, Saint Basil, Bion of Phlossa, Chariton, Clement of Alexandria, Demetrius, Eusebius, John of Damascus, Julian the Emperor, Longinus, Longus, Marcus Aurelius, Moschos, Onasander, Parthenius, Procopius, Ptolemy and Xenophon of Ephesus.

  Support from the Mellon Foundation has allowed us to add TEI XML digital editions for works by Boethius, Claudian, Silius Italicus, Valerius Maximus and Cicero's Timaeus and De Inventiones.

  This release includes parses for 139,385 additional Greek forms and 100,328 additional Latin forms, resulting in 22% more Greek morphological analyses and 39% more Latin. The majority of the primary source texts in the Greco-Roman collection have also been updated as part of an ongoing effort to standardize the markup scheme. Most of the updates to the texts were structural, with only minor, if any, changes to the content. Please don't hesitate to report any problems you may see with any of the texts.

• September 1, 2011:

  Perseus submitted a contribution to the Beta Sprint for the Digital Public Library of America. We offer technological examples such as the Perseus Digital Library itself, as well as the Proteus Book search system and the Alpheios reading environment. We would also like to point out the Mukurtu project provides a content management system in which indigenous communities can distinguish content that they can release under a Creative Commons open license from materials that are only appropriate for particular lineages or groups within their communities. The History Engine gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work — researching, writing, and publishing — of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in their online database.

• July 9, 2011:

  Thanks to a grant from the Google Digital Humanities program, Perseus is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions of Aelian, Cassius Dio, Callistratus, Philostratus, the Athenian, Philostratus Major and Philostratus Minor.

  Support from the Mellon Foundation has allowed us to add TEI XML digital editions for Ausonius.

  This release also includes fixes for various bugs including broken morphology links in the vocabulary lists and missing abbreviations for the newer works.

• May 23, 2011:

  Thanks to a grant from the Google Digital Humanities program, Perseus is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions of Dio Chrysostom and Dionysius.

  Support from the Mellon Foundation has allowed us to add TEI XML digital editions for Jerome, Minucius Felix, and Tertullian.

  This release also includes fixes for line number displays in recently released texts, typos in Elegy & Iambus, the citation scheme in Athenaeus and entity voting errors.

• April 14, 2011:

  Thanks to a grant from the Google Digital Humanities program, Perseus is pleased to publish a TEI XML digital edition of Diodorus. Support for the Cybereditions project from the Mellon Foundation has allowed us to add as well TEI XML digital editions for Curtius, Horace, Cicero, Ovid, Sidonius, Prudentius and Seneca the Elder.

  Thanks to support from the U.S. Department of Education and the Max Planck Society we have also been able to publish Edward William Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon.

• March 14, 2011:

  Thanks to a grant from the Google Digital Humanities program, Perseus is pleased to publish a TEI XML digital edition of Arrian and to complete the TEI XML digital edition of Lucian, initially published in December. Support for the Cybereditions project from the Mellon Foundation and Tufts University has allowed us to add as well TEI XML digital editions for Florus, Persius, Statius, Apuleius, Columella, Martial, Tibullus and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae.

• January 24, 2011:

  Thanks to a grant from the Google Digital Humanities program, the Perseus Digital Library is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions for the Greek Poets Aratus Solensis, Colluthus, Nonnus of Panopolis, Callimachus, Lycophron, Oppian, Oppian of Apamea, Quintus Smyrnaeus and Tryphiodorus.

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Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University.

The Perseus Project is funded by the Alpheios Project, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, private donations, and Tufts University.

Support for the project has been provided by the Annenberg/CPB Project, Apple Computer, the Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment, Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education part of the U.S. Department of Education, the Getty Grant program, the Modern Language Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the Packard Humanities Institute, Xerox Corporation, Boston University, and Harvard University.