Crane, Gregory

On April 1, 2013, Gregory Crane is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig. He is also Professor of Classics and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, as well as Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship at Tufts University. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Digital Library and has been active in Humanities and Digital Technology since he was a graduate student in 1982.

The Perseus Greek and Latin XML Corpus (on-going): a major revision and expansion of the Greco-Roman sources within Perseus. This has included development of new techniques for acquiring and structuring textual sources at scale and has built upon support from Mellon, Google, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cantus Foundation and other sources. As of March 2011, the corpus contains 7.5 m words of Greek and 6.5 million words of Latin.

Editor, with Melissa Terras, Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ: Winter 2009): (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/). This issue included 13 peer reviewed articles with contributions by 31 authors. I was lead or coauthor on 3 of the articles. This collection not summarized the state of the art in what is arguably the most advanced area of digital humanities but also laid out a road map for future development within the field.

Editor, D-Lib Magazine (March 2006), A Special Issue on Digital Library Evolution: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/03contents.html. This collection was one of the first to probe the implications of very large digital collections for teaching and research in the humanities.

The Perseus 19th-Century American Collection (2006): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ hopper/collection.jsp?collection=Perseus:collection:cwar This included both a 55 million word corpus of XML encoded source materials on the US Civil War and other historical topics (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/03featured-collection.html) as well as a 10,000 line named entity identification system optimized for historical materials (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/~gcrane/americancoll.12.2005.pdf.). This is corpus edition, combining editorial labor on more than 300 books and a suite of automated methods developed in conjunction with these materials.