PhiloGrid: Creating a Virtual Research Environment for Classics

Recipient: Crane, Gregory R (Medford, MA 02155-5500 USA) in affiliation with Tufts University (Medford, MA 02155 USA)

Goal: Creation of a digital collection of fragmentary writings of Greek historians and development of a virtual research environment for Greco-Roman antiquity using grid technologies that would be broadly applicable to other humanities disciplines.

Description: [A grid is a computing architecture that coordinates large numbers of computers and data to act as a single large computer. It enables individuals or institutions grouped as virtual organizations to dynamically share computational resources.] Philogrid, a collaboration of the Perseus Digital Library (DL) at Tufts University in the United States and the Internet Centre at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, proposes to create an expandable, grid-enabled, Web service-driven virtual research environment for Greco-Roman antiquity based initially upon open source texts and services from the Perseus DL. First, we will add to the Perseus DL the writings of Greek historians that exist only in fragmentary form. This task goes beyond simple data entry: we will create the first major digital collection of fragmentary authors designed from the start to interact with multiple source editions. Second, we will create a repository of philological data about the Greco-Roman world seeded with twenty years' worth of Perseus materials. The objects that we create will not only include books but every labeled object within each logical document. Third, we will convert the workflow that has evolved over the past ten years to process textual materials in Perseus into a grid-enabled workflow based on Web services that can be applied to and customized for many collections. Although this project will concentrate on the classics collections in the Perseus DL, the new workflows will also process non-classical Perseus content, and will thus from the start demonstrate their generality. The development process will follow a strategy already successfully employed in e-Science projects at the Imperial College Internet Centre. It will consist of conversion of the Perseus workflow and tools into a Web service environment, in which the Perseus workflow is analyzed into steps, each of which is published as a Web service with a configurable API. A workflow mirroring the Perseus workflow will then be composed and fine-tuned using model data from Perseus and sample data from the digitization within the current scope of this project. The results of this project would be freely accessible on the Web.

Grant: 191627 / PX-50013-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

L'Annee Philologique (American Office) [APH]

Recipient: Carson, Lisa D (Athens, OH 45701-1717 USA) in affiliation with American Philological Association (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 USA)

Goal: The preparation of two volumes of "l'Année philologique," a comprehensive bibliography of research in all fields of classical studies.

Grant: 179525 / PA-52000-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Houses of Mortals and Gods: Latin Literature in Context

Recipient: Dougherty, Therese Marie (Baltimore, MD 21210-2404 USA) in affiliation with College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21210 USA)

Goal: A five-week institute for twenty-five middle and high school Latin teachers to contextualize the study of Latin language and Roman culture through on-site study of dwellings in and around Rome and in the region of Pompeii.

Grant: 176877 / ES-50117-05,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2005

Houses of Mortals and Gods: Latin Literature in Context

Recipient: Dougherty, Therese Marie (Baltimore, MD 21210-2404 USA) in affiliation with College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21210 USA)

Goal: A six-week institute for 25 Latin school teachers to contextualize the study of Latin language and Roman culture through on-site study of Roman dwellings.

Grant: 165455 / ES-50008-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2003

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: Creating an Online Search and Retrieval System to TLG Materials [TLG]

Recipient: Pantelia, Maria (Irvine, CA 92697-5550 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92697 USA)

Goal: The restructuring of data and development of an online search and retrieval system for the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a database representing the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453.

Grant: 158073 / PA-23525-01,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2001

Vergil and the Augustan Age

Recipient: Reid, Peter L (Medford, MA 02155-0000 USA) in affiliation with Tufts University (Medford, MA 02155 USA)

Goal: To support a four-week institute for 36 high school teachers to study Vergil and the age of Augustus.

Grant: 143637 / ES-23030-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1997

Epistulae romanae: The Letters of Cicero and Pliny

Recipient: Dougherty, Therese Marie (Baltimore, MD 21210-2404 USA) in affiliation with College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21210 USA)

Goal: To support a humanities focus project on the letters of Cicero and Pliny and the social and political issues of their times for 16 teachers of Latin.

Grant: 141761 / ED-20147-96,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1996

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides: Performance and Interpretation of Greek Tragedy

Recipient: McCall, Marsh H (Stanford, CA 94305-0000 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Grant: 154587 / FV-21969-95,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1995

Ovid's METAMORPHOSES: Myth in Its Physical and Poetic Landscape

Recipient: Ahl, Frederick M (Ithaca, NY 14853-3201 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA)

Grant: 154579 / FV-21946-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994

Virgil's AENEID in Its Literary and Cultural Contexts

Recipient: Thomas, Richard F (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University

Grant: 154525 / FV-21786-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994

Endowment to Maintain the THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE

Recipient: Pantelia, Maria (Irvine, CA 92697-5550 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92697 USA)

Goal: To support an endowment for staffing and technological resources necessary to maintain a computerized database of all Greek literary texts from Homer through 600 A.D. (THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE) and to update the texts as required.

Grant: 141631 / CR-20541-93,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Research Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 1993

Greek Tragedy and Its History

Recipient: Mueller, Martin (Evanston, IL 60208-2240 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

Grant: 154494 / FV-21719-93,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993

Ovid's METAMORPHOSES: Myth in Its Physical and Poetic Landscapes

Recipient: Ahl, Frederick M (Ithaca, NY 14853-3201 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA)

Grant: 154510 / FV-21755-93,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993

Virgil's AENEID in Its Augustan Context

Recipient: Santirocco, Matthew S (New York, NY 10003-6688 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Grant: 154421 / FV-21568-92,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1992

Plutarch and Athens

Recipient: Martin, Hubert M (Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA) in affiliation with University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY 40506 USA)

Grant: 154429 / FV-21585-92,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1992

Tacitus: Historian of the Early Roman Emperors

Recipient: Morford, Mark P. O (Charlottesville, VA 22901-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA)

Grant: 154398 / FV-21519-92,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1992

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides: Performance and Interpretation of Greek Tragedy

Recipient: McCall, Marsh H (Stanford, CA 94305-0000 USA) in affiliation with Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305 USA)

Grant: 154329 / FV-21318-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991

Transformation and Flux in Ovid's METAMORPHOSES

Recipient: Cahoon, Leslie (Gettysburg, PA 17325-0000 USA) in affiliation with Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA 17325 USA)

Grant: 154362 / FV-21422-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991

Master Works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Illuminated by Aristotle's POETICS

Recipient: Hill, Pamela K (Boston, MA 02115 USA) in affiliation with Huntington Theatre Company

Goal: To support a masterwork study project for 15 humanities teachers from the Boston area on the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as illuminatedby Aristotle's POETICS.

Grant: 143367 / ES-22097-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991

Masterworks: Studying Fairy Tales

Recipient: Altrogge, Virginia E (Manchester, MO 63021 USA) in affiliation with Parkway School District (Chesterfield, MO 63146 USA)

Goal: To support a masterwork study project for 18 Missouri elementary school teachers and administrators on the classic Grimm's fairy tales, story telling, and its use as a means to integrate humanities content into the curriculum.

Grant: 143383 / ES-22155-91,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1991