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Forum members attending the 2017 Society for Classical Studies and Archaeological Institute of America meetings in Toronto may be interested in the Digital Classics Association panel, “Digital Classics and the Changing Profession.” The panel takes place on Friday, January 6 from 1:45 – 4:45 pm with the following speakers (titles link to abstracts): Gregory Crane (Leipzig University/Tufts … Read more

The Digital Classics Association will sponsor a session at the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in Toronto on January 5-8, 2017. See the call for papers below: “Digital Classics and the Changing Profession” Sponsored by the Digital Classics Association Organized by Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY The growth of the digital humanities is increasingly … Read more

Looking to learn more about GitHub? Tamara Fultz from the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has written an informal starter guide. (Shared from her blog with permission.) I am officially a busy person – I finally enrolled in the Flatiron School’s Introduction to Front-End Web Development course which begins in February. … Read more

A great opportunity from our friends at Perseids: Teach the Teachers, Leipzig April 18-19th, 2016 The Perseids Project, in collaboration with the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig and the Department of Classics at Tufts University is calling for participants in the first Teach the Teachers workshop. The two-day workshop aims … Read more

The Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP) held an organizational meeting on November 19-20.  The Project aims to develop an open corpus of Classical Greek and Latin “for the c. 100 million words produced through c. 600 CE and…the billions of words produced after 600 CE in Greek and Latin that survive” (project website).  Meeting … Read more

On November 19-20, the Center for Hellenic Studies will host a meeting to address the goals of the Open Greek and Latin Project (OGLP) and outline a workflow for libraries to contribute materials. The meeting will be run by Greg Crane, the Editor-in-Chief of Perseus and the Humboldt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig, … Read more

Digital Antiquity Coffee House Friday, October 2nd, 2015 10am to 4pm An informal meeting organized by the ISAW Library and the Digital Programs team that will provide an opportunity for NYC-area scholars and students exploring digital approaches to the study of the ancient world to present and discuss their work. More information here: http://isaw.nyu.edu/events/diglib-grad-fall2015.  FCLSC Forum … Read more

Gregory Crane Perseus Project and the Open Philology Project The University of Leipzig and Tufts University We are looking for help in preparing metadata for the Patrologia Graeca (PG) component of what we are calling the Open Migne Project, an attempt to make the most useful possible transcripts of the full Patrologia Graeca and Patrologia … Read more

On Saturday, January 10 from 12:15-1:45pm, Catherine Mardikes (Chicago) will chair a roundtable discussion on “Open Access Books: The Problem of Visibility” in the Napoleon Ballroom of the Sheraton New Orleans. Chuck Jones (ISAW/Penn State), Camilla MacKay (Bryn Mawr), Donald Mastronarde (Berkeley), and Lenny Muellner (Center for Hellenic Studies) will participate in the discussion. Open access … Read more

Members of the Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication (FCLSC) will meet at the AIA/SCS(APA) Conference on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:30am-11:30am in the Cornet Room of the Sheraton New Orleans. The current chair and secretary of the forum, Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos, and Camilla MacKay, respectively, have submitted the following agenda: 9:30-11:00am Introductions Confirmation of 2014 … Read more