Ross Scaife
Allen Ross Scaife | |
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Born | |
Died | March 15, 2008 | (aged 47)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | classics scholar, digital humanities |
Allen Ross Scaife (born March 31, 1960, Fredericksburg, Virginia – died March 15, 2008, Lexington, Kentucky) was a Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky.[1]
Life
Ross Scaife was born to William and Sylvia Scaife in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1960, one of four children.[1] He was married to Cathy Jane Edwards Scaife (1959–2018)[2] and they had three sons, Lincoln (b. 1991), Adrian (b. 1994), and Russell (b. 1998).[1] He died at home after a year-long fight against cancer.
Education and scholarship
He graduated in 1978 from the
He worked from 1991 to the time of his death at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literature, and Cultures of the
Scaife was best known for his pioneering work in the use of computer technology in humanities scholarship. He was the founding editor of the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities in 1997, which serves as an umbrella project for many projects in the Classics, such as EpiDoc, the Suda on Line, Diotíma and the Neo-Latin Colloquia. Ross Scaife was a co-creator of the latter three.
A
Scaife was dedicated to the principle of
Since 2005, he was the director of the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities at the University of Kentucky. His recent work included forging the collaboration that resulted in the high resolution digital imaging of the Venetus A, a 10th-century manuscript of the Iliad located at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, and also the NSF-funded EDUCE project for non-invasive, volumetric scanning technologies for virtually unwrapping and visualizing ancient papyrus scrolls.[4]
His work continues to be influential among scholars working in the field of open access and collaborative editing in Classics, with major projects citing his example and involvement in their inception and design.[5][6]
Selected publications
- Scaife, A.R., Herodotus on the evolution of Lydia, UTexas M.A. Report 1983.
- Scaife, A.R., "The argument of III.84", AAPhA (1988), p. 25
- Scaife, A.R., "Accounts for taxes on beer and natron. P. Austin inv. 34", ZPE LXXI (1988), pp. 105–109
- Scaife, R., "Alexander i in the Histories of Herodot", Hermes CXVII (1989), pp. 129–137
- Scaife, A.R., The Kypria and its Early Reception, UTexas Ph.D. Thesis 1990.
- Scaife, R., "From kottabos to war in Aristophanes' Acharnians", GRBS 33 (1992), pp. 25–35
- Scaife, A.R., "Ritual and persuasion in the house of Ischomachus", CJ 90.3 (1994–1995), pp. 225–232
- Scaife, R., "The Kypria and its early reception", ClAnt 14.1 (1995), pp. 164–191
- Scaife, R. & Bonefas S., Diotima: materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world (1995-). Available http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
- Scaife, A.R., "Protagorean frames of reference in Thucydides", AHB 10.1 (1996), pp. 31–37
- Scaife, R., Finkel, R., Hutton, W., Whitehead, D. et al., Suda Online: Byzantine Lexicography (1998-). Available http://www.stoa.org/sol/
- Scaife, R. & Porter, D., "Tools for Collaborative Editing" (2006). Available http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/OSCE_Scaife_Paper
- Scaife, R. et al., "Directions for the Future" (2007). Audio file available http://www.rch.uky.edu/CenterOfGravity/11_Scaife_future.mp3
See also
- Digital Humanities
- Classics
- Digital Classicist
- University of Kentucky
Notes and references
- ^ a b c d See obituary by Dot Porter (cited with permission).
- ^ "Obituary for Cathy Jane Edwards Scaife". The Free Lance–Star. April 22, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018. (paywalled)
- ^ Digital Classicist: index
- ^ See NSF funding notice, naming project leaders.
- ^ E.g. Joshua Sosin, Digital Papyrology (2010), on the influence of Scaife and the SOL on Mellon-funded Integrating Digital Papyrology project.
- ^ Successful bid for NEH funding for Pleiades Project cites SOL and Scaife's input in editorial design of project (see narrative.pdf)
External links
- Ross Scaife at the Database of Classical Scholars, author: Dot Porter
- An obituary by Dot Porter
- Obituary in Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
- Obituary in Lexington Herald
- Obituary in Kentucky Kernel
- Homepage at the University of Kentucky website at the Wayback Machine (archived March 29, 2008)
- Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities
- Digital Classicist
- Changing the Center of Gravity (audio of conference in Scaife's honor)
- Digital Medievalist 4 (2008) (in honour of Ross Scaife)
- Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1 (2009) (in honor of Ross Scaife)