Ryan Baumann

ryan.baumann@gmail.com

Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing

Around the web:

• Blog
• GitHub
• Docker Hub
• Twitter
• Mastodon
• Internet Archive
• Sketchfab
• Tip Jar

Useful tools:

• Loebolus

  Making the public domain Loebs more easily downloadable.

• Book Aligner

  Automatic alignment of books between HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Google Books, etc.

• Latin OCR for Tesseract

  Latin OCR training data and tools for Tesseract.

• Pleiades Static

  Fast, static, client-side search and display for the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places.

• GitHub Friction

  Check for common sources of contributor friction across your GitHub repositories.

• Beer Calories

  Client-side mobile-friendly beer calorie calculator with Untappd integration.

• dlflickr

  Ruby scripts for downloading Flickr photos and associated metadata.

• iiif-dl

  Ruby script for downloading IIIF images.

• dzi-dl

  Ruby script for downloading Deep Zoom images.

• google-fusion-tables-backup

  Ruby script for backing up your Google Fusion Tables data to CSV.

• GeoRefine

  A geospatial processing extension for OpenRefine.

• RotateBake

  RotateBake is a Mac app for baking EXIF rotation into images. You know your iPhone images that show up rotated wrong in Safari? Yeah, this fixes that.

• Macduff

  Macduff is a tool for finding the Macbeth ColorChecker chart in an image.

• gist2pinboard

  Script for adding your GitHub Gists as Pinboard bookmarks, so that you can search your own Gists.

• Backpack Export XSLT

  Stylesheets for converting your 37signals/Basecamp Backpack export XML into usable, complete, static local backups.

• BCX Project Photocopier

  Copy Basecamp projects between accounts.

• Manuscript Images on Flickr

  Creative Commons licensed manuscript images mirrored on Flickr for redundancy and alternative access methods (API, notes, comments, browsing, etc.).

Selected publications:

• Automatic Perspective Correction of Manuscript Images. ICADL 2012.
• The Son of Suda On-Line: Collaborative editing and workflow tool. Digital Humanities 2011.
• Robust Registration of Manuscript Images. 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2009.
• Opportunities for Epigraphy in the Context of 3D Digitization. ASGLE 2009 joint APA/AIA Panel.
• The Use of Micro-CT in the Study of Archaeological Artifacts. 9th International Art Conference in Jerusalem on Non-destructive Investigation and Analysis. 2008.
• Imaging the Venetus A Manuscript for the Homer Multitext. Digital Humanities 2008.
• A Catadioptric Projector System with Application to Pseudo HDR Display (Poster). ACM SIGGRAPH 2007.

As seen on:

• “A Collaboratory for Classics”. Campus Technology. 2013.
• “Ancient documents go digital at Duke”. WRAL. 2013.
• “Duke Classics Scholar Finds Another Home in the Library”. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2013.
• “Coolest jobs in tech: decoding life, touring solar systems”. Ars Technica. 2012.
• “UK team digs into data from scroll scans”. Lexington Herald-Leader. 2009.
• “The Next Age of Discovery”. Wall Street Journal. 2009.
• “Backpack helps researcher working in imaging of ancient texts”. 37signals. 2008.