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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would like to give a shout out to my brilliant colleague Sarah(@lepidopterane.bsky.social) who finished her dissertation in CS at Tufts this summer: "Bridges, Not Barriers: Leveraging Hypertext Towards Making Commentaries More Accessible Translation Aids." Even better, it's open access!

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Perseus Digital Library has been hard at work on Minimum Viable Perseus (Perseus MVP). Designed as a static site and heavily inspired by the beloved but faltering P4 (and its awesome users), please check out our efforts here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates) and try it out: beta.perseus.tufts.edu

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While the onslaught of bots and LLMs taking down both P4 and the Scaife Viewer has been significant, it has not stopped the Perseus research team and it's many awesome collaborators from publishing both open data and new publications that I'd like to higlight (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)

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Ongoing Outages and So Many Publications » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now Scaife is down. Ugh. it is difficult for an application at Tufts to use bot challenges. We are pushing to do something. This is our traffic as of Google Analytics.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2026

Heads-up everyone in digital humanities and/or cultural AI: this is a hugely valuable resource. It does the systematic cleaning and segmentation — of a million books — that we have always wanted to have, for computational research, and have never quite produced in a way that stuck.

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would like to highlight a recent piece (tinyurl.com/mrkx7z3j) by @philologistgrc.bsky.social that looks at how his recent work this summer on the Perseus Multitext Viewer was enabled through not just the targeted use of LLMs but also through the important open data ecosystem of digital classics.

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So it's been an eventful summer for the Perseus Digital Library! Please check out our latest blog post (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...) for some new information on ongoing P4 outages as well as two exciting new projects: MVP (Minimum Viable Perseus) and the Perseus Multitext Viewer!

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Ongoing Perseus disruptions and future plans » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Having recently celebrated another year round the sun, I think one of the greatest privileges of growing older is getting to spend more time with amazing friends, particular ones who so understand your sense of humor in the presents they choose for you.

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

We have the mechanics for translation alignment starting to appear. Automatic alignments are disappointing for now but you can see how we can show aignments: tinyurl.com/3jwnudtb

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We are testing new layouts to compare multiple versions of a work (and perhaps to be part of a new serverless Perseus). gregorycrane.github.io/persverscomp...

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Perseus Digital Library is excited to announce new developments regarding the Scaife Viewer: a long-planned movement of Scaife to Tufts IT infrastructure, first steps on the integration of morphology and dictionary tools, and the first inclusion of commentaries. Please go here to read more:

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Updates to the Scaife Viewer: Dictionaries, Commentaries, and a preliminary interface redesign » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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Undead Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🧵This might not be enough notice but here’s an opportunity to be part of the Tompkinsia user study! We are looking for Ancient Greek college classes that are able to have their students participate in a user study on Zoom. Details below:

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

April 8 Perseus Digital Library Update: I'm glad to report that Perseus access has been restored. We will continue to monitor the traffic and post further updates as necessary. (Hopefully that won't be necessary anytime soon, but lately it always seems to be!)

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just wanted to post a Perseus Digital Library update, malicious traffic has interrupted service on Perseus 4.0 and related sites. The Scaife Viewer remains online at this writing. We will update when we have further information.

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Just wanted to share a great new paper "Tompkinsia: A Data-Driven Commentary Augmentation" (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) by my colleague @lepidopterane.bsky.social who will be presenting it at CHI '26 STAR: Proceedings of Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading in Barcelona in April!

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Giulia Taurino @giuliataurino.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thrilled to collaborate with @grigorievna1812.bsky.social and contribute to assembling the open digital corpus of historical Greek, the largest compiled to date, for this project under the leadership of @dasmiq.bsky.social.

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This has been a desideratum since the day we first published this model -- I'm so happy Patrick figured this out!

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...

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Towards corpus-based learning: exercises with Ancient Greek » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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philologistgrc.bsky.social @philologistgrc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We have a new article with Digital Classicist Online: Towards a smart edition of Apollodorus

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

As many Perseus Digital Library (www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) users are aware the Scaife Viewer (scaife.perseus.org) text search has been down for several months. A brief post about the problem and some future Scaife development plans can be read here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...):

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Update on issue with Scaife Viewer text searching » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

While I know OCR has improved exponentially in the last year or so and as noted below, people are going to miss feveral rivers, I have to admit my 12 and 14 year old were much more taken with the idea of an Encyclopedia of Farts and Sciences.

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I am pleased to announce that the Perseus Digital Library has received funding from the NEH to create a digital edition of Aristotle's Poetics, for more information please visit our blog here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...)

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I'm thrilled to report that the Perseus Digital Library has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Read more about our plans here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...). .

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Perseus Digital Library Updates » News and announcements from the Perseus Digital Library

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Giulia Taurino @giuliataurino.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“Beyond Translation: Opening up the Human Record” is among the HAVI projects awarded by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. Congratulations to PIs @philologistgrc.bsky.social and @dasmiq.bsky.social!

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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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Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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Tom Scheinfeldt @foundhistory.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

ICYMI: 11 changes historians and archivists need to make in response to generative AI. Now with a new and improved reading list. #dh #digitalhumanities #history #archives #ai #highered #pedagogy foundhistory.org/2025/07/gene...

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On – Found History

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Alison Babeu @alicatlibrarian.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

There is something very soothing in the creation of lists and bibliographies. Since we can no longer update the P4 website, I quickly created a super long list by year of all the Perseus research publications on our WordPress blog that can be easily updated in the short term!

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Perseus Research Publications » Perseus Digital Library Updates

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

At Perseus, the vast majority of hits have always been from non .edu addresses. NEH means the Greek and Roman world is available to everyone, not just academics.

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