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Students at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Contribute to DCC
This spring, with generous support from the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, three UIUC students have been contributing to the Dickinson...
View ArticleLatin Homographs and Homonyms
I visited the University of Virginia last fall and sat in on a Latin reading (as in reading aloud) group led by Prof. David Kovacs. I think there were something like 25 people there. Latin as...
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Summer Accomplishments 2013
Summer Research Assistants Qingyu Wang and Dan Plekhov, both of the Dickinson class of 2014, have just completed an eight week stint working on the Dickinson College Commentaries, and their...
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Annotating with Poetry Genius and House Divided
David Foster Wallace’s annotated copy of Don Delillo’s Players, from the Harry Ransom Research Center in Austin, TX. http://bit.ly/1ef5ziL From scribbled marginalia to full-scale scholarly treatises...
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Reviewing Digital Projects
It is often difficult for digital projects to get any detailed critique outside of the grant writing process, or even then. So I was delighted to see Patricia Johnson’s thorough and thoughtful review...
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Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop 2014 Comments
Participants in the 2014 Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop (left to right): Christine Kahl, Will Darden, Peter Rook, Catherine Zackey, Faye Peel, Wells Hansen, Ashley Leonard, Scott Paterson, Paul...
View ArticleExporting and Sharing Digital Scholarly Editions
Desmond Schmidt’s recent article in the Journal of TEI about how to create a truly portable and interoperable digital scholarly editions came at an opportune time for me. DCC is entering into a...
View ArticleA New Latin Macronizer
Felipe Vogel has released a new Latin macronizer, Maccer, and I thought I would take it for a spin and share the results. It works based on a database of previously macronized Latin texts (some...
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DCC Shanghai Seminar June 12-14
A stellar line up of Chinese scholars of the western classical tradition will meet in Shanghai next month to create Latin-Chinese and Greek-Chinese versions of the DCC Core vocabularies, and to form a...
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Guangqi Lecture and Seminar Series
Our friend and collaborator Jinyu Liu passes on the following exciting announcement: Dear Classics friends: On behalf of the newly founded Shanghai Normal University Guangqi International Center for...
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Latin, Chinese, and Baked Goods
A nice article was recently published by Concord Academy’s website about their successful collaborative project to translate the DCC Caesar into Mandarin. The project was led by CA’s Latin teacher Liz...
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Digitizing Gonçalves’ Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum
I’ve been working with others for several years now to digitize a large Latin-Chinese dictionary, but I realized that I have never blogged about the effort and publicly recognized the people involved....
View ArticleDickinson Classics China-related activities
The Dickinson Classical Studies department has been privileged to be involved with a number of interesting initiatives related to the now flourishing study of the Greco-Roman classics in China. People...
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A Greek Reader by Charles Anthon
This week a new project for DCC begins, the digitization and editing of A Greek Reader by Charles Anthon (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840, with editions up through 1854). This work is itself a...
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Gonçalves’ Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum
I am delighted to say that, at long last, our digital version of the Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum by Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves is available online. This was a very challenging digitization project for...
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