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Digital Classics and the Changing Profession | Panel at AIA/SCS

November 28, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 University) “Greco-Roman Studies and Digital Classics“
  • Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University) “Working in Digital Humanities and Classics at the Small Undergraduate University“
  • Marie-Claire Beaulieu (Tufts University) “Digital Work, Student Research, and the Tenure Track“
  • Christopher Blackwell (Furman University) “Philology, Technology, Collaboration: 16 Years of the Homer Multitext“
  • Christopher Johanson (UCLA) “DH 101 (Classics)“
  • Neil Coffee (SUNY – Buffalo) Response
  • General Discussion

Learn more at  http://dca.caset.buffalo.edu/.

Call for Papers: Digital Classics and the Changing Profession

February 1, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 affecting the professional life of classicists. Job ads have begun to ask for digital humanities experience. Job seekers who have digital skills face an expanded employment landscape, including not only to academic teaching positions, but also post-docs on funded research projects, work at NGOs, and jobs at private technology firms. Graduate students and graduate programs must decide what sort of digital training is necessary for a career. Tenure and promotion evaluators face the challenge of accounting for digital scholarship. Abstracts are invited for presentations addressing how digital methods are changing the shape of the profession in these and other ways, and how students and faculty can respond.

Anonymous abstracts of no more than 400 words should be sent to digitalclassicsassociation@gmail.com, with identifying information in the email. Abstracts will be refereed anonymously in accordance with SCS regulations. Submitters should confirm in their emails that they are SCS members in good standing. Abstracts should follow the formatting guidelines of the instructions for individual abstracts on the SCS website. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is **March 9, 2016**.

Note: All past DCA sessions have been joint colloquia of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America. This panel has been approved by SCS, with the application for a joint AIA colloquium pending. AIA members are encouraged to submit, though there is no guarantee at this point that the panel will be approved by AIA.

Getting Git and GitHub

January 29, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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. Sadly, I couldn’t do the intensive program which includes Ruby, but I would have had to quit my job for that and my daddy isn’t Donald Trump (one thing I am actually glad of, but I do wish my mom was Hilary Clinton!).  So I have started with the pre-work for the Front-End course – naturally it leads with the command line which I pretty much have down now. Next it introduces Git and GitHub and, boy, do I feel glad I had already started the pre-work for the Ruby intensive class! If I were a raw recruit, the Flatiron’s 1 hour and a half video onGit Basics would have overwhelmed me. So what are Git and GitHub? I am happy to let you know:

Git = is a very widely used version control system – it is a free and open source software. As a version control system, it gives you access to previous versions of your files, allows you to make back-ups of your code, and lets you easily share code and collaborate on projects with other individuals.

GitHub = is a web-based repository for code that facilitates the sharing of code using Git. GitHub has become so much more than a mere repository, though: many individuals now use GitHub as an online portfolio of their programs and academic institutions use GitHub to document and share code from their major digital projects (want to see the code for NYPL’sStereogranimator? Just go to @nypl/Stereogranimator on GitHub).

Now that I have piqued your interest (or not), check out some of these resources for more information.

Git and GitHub Resources

Git Cheat Sheet = Pretty much just the commands, but that is a good thing!

An A-Z Index of the Apple OS Command Line = Some generous soul created this index of commands. It explains how they work and the flags that go with each command. You will need this.

Code School’s Try Git = I don’t really recommend this brief course as your first introduction to Git for a number of reasons. While it comes across as simple, at least in terms of its definitions and descriptions of the commands, the pseudo-command line gives a false sense of security. Frankly, you need to be using Git in conjunction with a Unix-style command line and I think it is confusing for beginners to go from a very controlled (i.e. “fake”) environment to the real world command line.

Official Git Videos = Okay, I won’t lie… these videos are a bit on the dull side. But they do a great job of explaining what precisely version control is and why Git is so important for collaborating “knowledge workers.” You really aren’t going to learn a lot about HOW to use Git with these videos, though.

Udacity’s How to Use Git and GitHub = The videos in this course are so much more entertaining than the official Git videos. This is a real structured course (unlike the Code School’s course) with both lecture videos and assignments. I advocate starting here, but it is an 18-hour commitment. Probably worth it in the long run, because these videos are amusing, chock-full of useful tidbits, and heavy on the girl-power.  Also, kudos for the closed-captioning! They do start out with what I consider an odd first command, but hang with it – the command is at the heart of why version control is important. Oh, and they do assume a bit of command line knowledge, but they give guidelines and direct you to tutorials if you don’t already have it. All that being said I am far from completing their course.

Pro Git book =   I haven’t read this book, but, hey, it exists and you can download it for free. It can’t hurt to look at it.

Ry’s Git Tutorial = is another free book. I have been working through this one and I can’t say enough good things about it. I have the ebook, but you can also work through the tutorials online – it is up to you. What is great about this tutorial is that it has you create mini-HTML files to work with, so get a true sense of how  workflows operate with Git – I imagine that is an invaluable experience.

Finally, if you are a librarian check out the following article: Git and GitHub for Librarians (sorry, not free) by  Robin Camille Davis.

SSH Keys 

On a final note, the lecturer in the Flatiron Git videos kept mentioning “SSH Keys” and, while I knew where to find them on GitHub, I didn’t have a clue what they were or why they were important. It was driving me crazy! A quick Google search taught me that SSH stands for “Secure Shell” – a network protocol that allows you to securely (ahem!), remotely login without a password. GitHub prompts you with a SSH key when you want to clone a file. Right now that is the extent of my knowledge about SSH keys.

Teach the Teachers Workshop in Leipzig

January 11, 2016 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 to present and develop lesson plans and syllabi including digital methods for the high school and university Humanities curriculum. Registration for the workshop will be free and financial support for travel and lodging will be provided. We are looking for participants who teach at the High School or Secondary school level, as well as PhD candidates and Graduate Students.

As the field of classical studies continues to evolve, technology is playing a larger and larger and larger role both in the interpretation of data, but the in the education of a new generation of scholars. As people begin to use these tools to teach Greek and Latin, it is important that we come together and share our experiences, strategies, and ideas. Moreover, this workshop will offer educators who are unfamiliar with newer digital tools and their use in the classroom, to learn from fellow educators the best techniques for their implementation.

The workshop will contain seminars on how to use the tools available via Perseids, in particular the Alpheios Alignment editor and the Arethusa Treebank editor. These seminars will include comprehensive guidelines so that any user at any level of digital literacy will be able to use the tools to their full potential. This will include, but is not limited too:

  • Use of translation alignments for non-language students
  • Use of treebank annotations to assess understanding of grammar and morpho-syntax
  • Use of the gold standard review functionality and the board review systems of Perseids
  • The Perseids Social network annotation workflow
  • Assessment strategies for digital assignments

The purpose of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of new ideas for the implementation of the Perseids Platform in the classroom. During the two-day workshop we will produce resources for digital projects in a classroom setting. We will incorporate these resources into a growing collection of shared resources which will help future educators integrate the Perseids to their classroom practice.Those resources may include:

  • Syllabi for high school and college level courses.
  • Lesson plans for in-class digital projects.
  • Collaborative, inter-institutional workflows and project plans

Contributors should submit statements of up to 500-700 words. Submissions will be accepted until January 8th.

We have extended the deadline to Monday, January 18th.

Send submissions in the form of a pdf to teachtheteachers2016@gmail.com Statements can include:

  • Plans or ideas for the implementation of digital tools in the classroom
  • Description of experience or interest in digital methods
  • Other experience involving the use of digital tools in an educational setting

Collaborating on a Corpus of Open Greek and Latin

December 2, 2015 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 organizers were Greg Crane, the Editor-in-Chief of Perseus and the Humboldt Professor of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig, and Lenny Muellner, Director of IT and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies.

Participants discussed ways in which distributed teams of librarians, students, and other interested parties could contribute to developing an open corpus of Classical Greek and Latin texts. Topics included: 

  1. Creation of metadata 
  2. Creation, identification, and organization of scans 
  3. User interface development
  4. Local training sessions to engage faculty and students in developing and using the corpus
  5. An “adopt a text” model by which a team of faculty and students could contribute to preparing an open edition of a text or part of a text.

Forum members can provide feedback and learn more about ways to contribute to the Project at the January 2016 Society for Classical Studies Meeting in San Francisco.

Update on the OGLP

November 9, 2015 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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, who is the head of the OGLP. Project staff as well as librarians from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Mount Allison, UVA, and Yale will attend.

The major goal of the meeting is to identify practical steps that libraries can undertake to increase the number of available open Greek and Latin texts by using the infrastructure already in place. Additional topics on the agenda include larger scholarly-political discussions and a review of funding options.

The outcomes of the meeting will be shared on this blog in late November.

Fall 2015 Events at ISAW

September 14, 2015 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 “Building Instructional Support for Classics Research and Teaching”

Friday, November 13, 2015 ca. 11am to 5pm

Organized by the ISAW Library and the Yale University Classics Library, this informal meeting of greater New York area classics and ancient-studies librarians will foster collaboration on the development of shared resources for library instruction in research skills and digital scholarship and pedagogy. The meeting’s agenda is currently being developed and we welcome suggestions from potential participants. If you are interested, please contact us.

Help sought with Metadata for the Open Patrologia Graeca Online

January 21, 2015 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 Latina freely available. Help can consist of proofreading, additional tagging, and checking the volume/column references to the actual PG. In particular, we would welcome seeing this data converted into a dynamic index into online copies of the PG in Archive.org, the HathiTrust, Google Books, or Europeana. For now, we make the working XML metadata document available on an as-is basis.

more info: http://tinyurl.com/p39fx3f

Open Access Books: The Problem of Visibility (Roundtable Discussion)

January 7, 2015 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 publications rarely receive the treatment that leads to traditional forms of “advertising.”

1. Publishers advertise the book.

2. Bookstores/vendors alert customers/librarians of its availability

3. Libraries create a record for their catalog/OCLC.

4. Indexers, such as APh, add a record in their database.

5. Scholars receive the book as “payment” for their review.

6. LISTERV/blogs post information.

7. Search engines, like Google, index its website.

Only the last two are readily available for an open access book. Until open access books receive the same or similar treatment as a book with a price, they will remain less attractive to authors.

2015 Forum Meeting: Agenda

January 7, 2015 Posted by admin under Uncategorized

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 Minutes (C. MacKay)

Open Greek and Latin Project progress (G. Crane via Skype)

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IMLS Grants (Crane)

Update and News

Proposals for 2016 conference (L.Stylianopoulos)

Election of 2015-2017 Officers (L.Stylianopoulos)

11:00-11:30am

TLG discussion (C. McCaffrey)

(joined by Roger Bagnall, President-elect, SCS)

 

 

 

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