Ryan Baumann

ryan.baumann@gmail.com

Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing

Around the web:

Useful tools:

Loebolus
Making the public domain Loebs more easily downloadable.
Pleiades Static Search
Fast, static, client-side search for the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places.
Backpack Export XSLT
Stylesheets for converting your 37signals/Basecamp Backpack export XML into usable, complete, static local backups.
Manuscript Images on Flickr
Creative Commons licensed manuscript images mirrored on Flickr for redundancy and alternative access methods (API, notes, comments, browsing, etc.).
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.

Selected publications:

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.