John D. Muccigrosso

Classicist, DH guy

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Welcome to my homepage! It’s perpetually out of date, and I’ve stopped promising to fix that.

• See some of the publications from our archaeological dig in Umbria
• Peruse my CV
• Read my blog
• Send me e-mail: <owner@muccigrosso.org>
• Follow me on Mastodon
• Follow me on Twitter X (But don’t. I’m not on there anymore.): jdmuccigrosso
• See my work on Academia.edu
• See my stuff on GitHub
• ORCID, VIAF

Classics

There are many of these sites, but here’s a (very) short list to get you started:

• Perseus
• A list of undergraduate programs in Classics

Current Projects

Currently in the works:

• Database of Roman temples (DH, mapping stuff)
• Computer-aided connoisseurship (“Bitsly”, and very back-burner)
• See the next section

Computing

• I am currently involved in a bunch of Digital Humanities stuff. Most of the software-type stuff lives on GitHub, but not all:
  • Scripts (mostly for cleaning up old scans with ImageMagick)
  • Some Mac OS X Services
    • I made up a few Classics-related services. Install them in the Library/Services folder and then find them under the Services submenu in the currently running application’s menu:
      1. Convert diaereses into macrons (Unicode)
      2. Look up the selected Latin word in Whitaker’s free Latin dictionary (which must therefore be installed on your computer as well)
         • Form info only
         • English meaning only
         • Entire entry
      3. Look up the selected Latin word in Perseus’ version of Lewis & Short
      4. Look up the selected object in Perseus’ classical resources (Perseus doesn’t always respond well to this)
  • Then there’s this keyboard I made up to make typing macrons easier. It’s based on the Mac OS Hawaiian layout, but has the Dvorak layout. Download the whole packet with directions here .
• Here are some projects that are basically in stasis right now, but involving computer-use in our departmental courses:
  1. Image Database
  2. Michigan-Latin Vocabulary Project
  3. QuickTime animations
     1. Latin animations, a Summer 1999 Drew CINC project on word order in Latin
     2. Greek colonies in the west
• My outdated pages on how to use a Mac at Drew are still on the Internet Archive, if you’re really interested.
• Latest causes
  • “Protocols not platforms” This is a long-running stance of mine on standardization. It needs a good homepage, but for now check out this page:
    • Part of a MacCentral series on dual-platform sites. See the list at the bottom of the article.
  • RDF of my foaf entry.

Hobbies

• Crosswords
• Workouts