Author Archives: dporter

Posted on behalf of José M. Ciordia (http://blog.pompilos.org): On Thursday [November] 15 will take place a Pipiatio Classica: teachers and students of Classical Languages in Spain will write in Latin and Ancient Greek in their accounts of Twitter, in order … Continue reading →

Registration open for Triennial Conference, University of Cambridge, 25-28 July 2011 Hosted by the Faculty of Classics, the Celebration of Classics will see a remarkable line up of international scholars brought together in a novel format for such an event. … Continue reading →

ISMAR 2011: Call for Participation Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Oct. 26 – 29, 2011, Basel, Switzerland http://www.ismar11.org The fields of Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) seek to interactively combine real and virtual objects … Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Monica Berti. The 2011 Latium Vetus Program, as part of a collaborative project between Tufts University and Roma Tor Vergata, will allow students to learn the techniques of modern epigraphic study, including digital transcription and documentation … Continue reading →

Via Humanist: Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:09:47 -0400 From: Gregory Crane Subject: CLIR/Tufts Survey of Digital Classics available for comment Infrastructure for Humanities Scholarship http://www.clir.org/activities/details/infrastructure.html CLIR and Tufts University are engaging scholars and academic librarians in examining the services … Continue reading →

Christopher Blackwell is with a team now at Lichfield scanning St Chad’s Gospel, and a Wycliffe Bible too. He’s blogging the experience: http://nobleswineherd.blogspot.com/2010/06/litchfield.html And yes, the images will be released under a Creative Commons license.

Posted on behalf of Dhananjay Jagannathan: In response to a recent call from a philosopher for better translations of ancient works online for the sake of his students (http://blog.davidhildebrand.org/2010/06/what-to-do-about-old-translations.html), I decided to launch a digital humanities project which will, I … Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Carl Vogel at TCD – not a position in classics, but could be interesting for digital classicist types. [Apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate.] 2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open … Continue reading →

An announcement posted on behalf of Monica Berti: I write to signal a new blog called “Fragmentary Texts”: http://www.fragmentarytexts.org/ “Fragmentary Texts” is a blog edited by Monica Berti and devoted to models and methodologies for collecting and representing Greek and … Continue reading →

Call for Papers for two sessions at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. Although it is a medieval studies conference, it’s quite broad and includes sessions ranging from the Late … Continue reading →

This is copied from an announcement I received through the Exlibris listserv, and I thought readers of The Stoa would be interested as well. I’m not a big proponent of Second Life, but I do like seeing how people are … Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Ben Gracy at the University of Denver: an article on an assisted transcription system that uses OCR. It sounds fascinating. *edit: elsewhere in the article reference is made to “ancient documents and manuscripts”, which indicates that … Continue reading →

There are a number of sessions and individual papers that will be of interest to Digital Classicists scheduled for the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, next Tuesday-Thursday, June 23-25 at the University of Maryland. There are many, many more than I’m … Continue reading →