@philologistgrc.bsky.social
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Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
As I look out at the grey November New England afternoon, I consider -- as I often do this time of year -- that I can appreciate, at least a bit, the opening of Moby Dick.
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
As I look out at the grey November New England afternoon, I consider -- as I often do this time of year -- that I can appreciate, at least a bit, the opening of Moby Dick.
someone commented on the Russell Parallel Latin-Greek grammar last weekend. I put up an initial version of it (along with Pharr's Homeric Greek): gregorycrane.github.io/xml-llm-show...
XML to HTML Conversion Showcase
gregorycrane.github.io
October 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
someone commented on the Russell Parallel Latin-Greek grammar last weekend. I put up an initial version of it (along with Pharr's Homeric Greek): gregorycrane.github.io/xml-llm-show...
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We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)
Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates
sites.tufts.edu
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We have been working at Perseus on an initial release of a new browser for the Art and Archaeology collection. You can read more about it here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)
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At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek.
Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025
Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025
September 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
At ACM Hypertext 2025, Sarah Abowitz (@lepidopterane.bsky.social) describes her observation & user studies for translation & aids for students learning Greek.
Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025
Cognitive load of opening aids less preferred to opening in same window: hoverables do not overwhelm or disrupt the reading plan #ACMHT2025
I am thinking about Greek and Latin in colonial America and was struck to see this unsourced quotation from Greek (not just Latin) in Mather's Magnalia cites the Greek of Iliad 11.514. Surprised to see non-New Test Greek assumed so early, tbh
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I am thinking about Greek and Latin in colonial America and was struck to see this unsourced quotation from Greek (not just Latin) in Mather's Magnalia cites the Greek of Iliad 11.514. Surprised to see non-New Test Greek assumed so early, tbh
Rosy fingered now as in Homeric Greek
August 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Rosy fingered now as in Homeric Greek
I am pleased to be able to share that NEH has funded a proposal to work on an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.
August 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I am pleased to be able to share that NEH has funded a proposal to work on an edition of Aristotle's Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.
Alyce and I sitting in the Anthony bourdain seat at Kubel’s in Barnegat Light
July 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Alyce and I sitting in the Anthony bourdain seat at Kubel’s in Barnegat Light
In the Harvard/Google million book collection, 10 most common authors with books listed as being 'grc' or 'lat':
Note #3 ...
Note #3 ...
July 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In the Harvard/Google million book collection, 10 most common authors with books listed as being 'grc' or 'lat':
Note #3 ...
Note #3 ...
Results from David Smith's first scan for quotations of Greek and Latin texts in the Harvard/Google million book collection.
* New Test -- rules by a wide margin
* Ovid and Lucretius outdo Virgil (!)
* Xenophon edges out the top Cicero
Just a first and preliminary look!
* New Test -- rules by a wide margin
* Ovid and Lucretius outdo Virgil (!)
* Xenophon edges out the top Cicero
Just a first and preliminary look!
June 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Results from David Smith's first scan for quotations of Greek and Latin texts in the Harvard/Google million book collection.
* New Test -- rules by a wide margin
* Ovid and Lucretius outdo Virgil (!)
* Xenophon edges out the top Cicero
Just a first and preliminary look!
* New Test -- rules by a wide margin
* Ovid and Lucretius outdo Virgil (!)
* Xenophon edges out the top Cicero
Just a first and preliminary look!
David Smith just did a first pass analysis of Greek and Latin works in the Harvard/Google million book collection.
Which of these NT works came out on top? which was least quoted? Acts - John - Luke - Mark - Matthew?
Which of these NT works came out on top? which was least quoted? Acts - John - Luke - Mark - Matthew?
June 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
David Smith just did a first pass analysis of Greek and Latin works in the Harvard/Google million book collection.
Which of these NT works came out on top? which was least quoted? Acts - John - Luke - Mark - Matthew?
Which of these NT works came out on top? which was least quoted? Acts - John - Luke - Mark - Matthew?
We have a paper about the backend to Perseus 6 that is as of today officially published: transformations.episciences.org/15841
The Sixth Generation of the Perseus Digital Library and a Workflow for Open Philology
This paper presents an overview of recent developments by the Perseus Digital Library in creating theBeyond Translation reading environment, a foundational component in the transition toward Perseus 6...
transformations.episciences.org
June 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We have a paper about the backend to Perseus 6 that is as of today officially published: transformations.episciences.org/15841
Pharr's Vergil goes into the public domain (if I calculate correctly) on Jan 1, 2026. You can find it already at archive.org/details/verg...
We are planning to digitize this. How much work should we put into correcting the glosses vs. using general short definitions?
We are planning to digitize this. How much work should we put into correcting the glosses vs. using general short definitions?
June 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Pharr's Vergil goes into the public domain (if I calculate correctly) on Jan 1, 2026. You can find it already at archive.org/details/verg...
We are planning to digitize this. How much work should we put into correcting the glosses vs. using general short definitions?
We are planning to digitize this. How much work should we put into correcting the glosses vs. using general short definitions?
Can anyone describe best practices for TEI encoding of textual notes with positional data? (e.g., β α above ἡμῖν εὑρεῖν; που above του)? Image from Campbell's Antigone edition
May 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Can anyone describe best practices for TEI encoding of textual notes with positional data? (e.g., β α above ἡμῖν εὑρεῖν; που above του)? Image from Campbell's Antigone edition
The Harvard Data Science Review just published our paper on Data Reuse: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/m0dqvamt... The basic argument is that reuse of openly licensed data takes work but it can open up ancient languages such as Greek. Example: look at the Greek when arguing about Homer translations.
Humanities Data Reuse: Humanity First
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu
May 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Harvard Data Science Review just published our paper on Data Reuse: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/m0dqvamt... The basic argument is that reuse of openly licensed data takes work but it can open up ancient languages such as Greek. Example: look at the Greek when arguing about Homer translations.
For those of you who want to see what we are doing on Perseus 6, I can point (as of today) to a preprint of a paper that will be coming out in Dariah's Transformations Journal. There will should be another publication coming online this month and I will post that also. zenodo.org/records/1516...
The Sixth Generation of the Perseus Digital Library and a Workflow for Open Philology
This paper presents an overview of recent developments by the Perseus Digital Library in creating theBeyond Translation reading environment, a foundational component in the transition toward Perseus 6...
zenodo.org
April 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For those of you who want to see what we are doing on Perseus 6, I can point (as of today) to a preprint of a paper that will be coming out in Dariah's Transformations Journal. There will should be another publication coming online this month and I will post that also. zenodo.org/records/1516...
DOGE terminated our current NEH grant with which we were developing a next generation Perseus. Luckily, much of the work has been done. We should be able to get much, though not all, of the work that we had planned done. The backend is fairly solid and results should appear on the front end soon.
April 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
DOGE terminated our current NEH grant with which we were developing a next generation Perseus. Luckily, much of the work has been done. We should be able to get much, though not all, of the work that we had planned done. The backend is fairly solid and results should appear on the front end soon.
We had enormous pressure on the main Perseus server (perhaps a DOS attack). Tufts restarted and we are back online and will keep an eye on the situation.
February 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We had enormous pressure on the main Perseus server (perhaps a DOS attack). Tufts restarted and we are back online and will keep an eye on the situation.
In our weird new Perseus space, I chose a smaller office and only a subset of my books will be with me. What do I keep? Any text of or book on Gk/Lat authors. More general books -- left in another room. "Nobody writes single books on single authors," I used to hear. When pushed, that's all I keep.
January 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In our weird new Perseus space, I chose a smaller office and only a subset of my books will be with me. What do I keep? Any text of or book on Gk/Lat authors. More general books -- left in another room. "Nobody writes single books on single authors," I used to hear. When pushed, that's all I keep.
Tufts Classics is moving into a renovated Eaton Hall and there are issues. One (not the biggest) is the room below: it looks like a 2019 dedicated videoconference room with just one monitor at the end of a table. I couldn't teach in this and I would never use this old approach. Can others defend it?
January 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Tufts Classics is moving into a renovated Eaton Hall and there are issues. One (not the biggest) is the room below: it looks like a 2019 dedicated videoconference room with just one monitor at the end of a table. I couldn't teach in this and I would never use this old approach. Can others defend it?
Thanks to @jtauber.com, Annette von Stockhausen and pta.bbaw.de/en/ we have not only 7 million more words of Greek in the Perseus backend but als 1+ million words of Syriac. We need to move this data to a public facing server but I am just too happy not to share this.
January 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thanks to @jtauber.com, Annette von Stockhausen and pta.bbaw.de/en/ we have not only 7 million more words of Greek in the Perseus backend but als 1+ million words of Syriac. We need to move this data to a public facing server but I am just too happy not to share this.
A lot has happened in DH at Tufts and the DH MA has become very exciting.
December 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
A lot has happened in DH at Tufts and the DH MA has become very exciting.