Open Greek and Latin Project- Volunteer Program

Official Account of the OGLP Volunteer Program in partnership with the Center for Hellenic Studies. follow/retweet does not equal endorsement

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Four of our amazing trainers share their reflections on an internship affected by the pandemic and their time contributing to the OGLP: https://t.co/FZUblEvpUX We can't thank Taylor, Kelli, Em, and Elizabeth enough for their amazing work!

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it's official: with today being the final day of editing for the ☀️Summer 2021 Editing Session🏝️ our team has surpassed its goal of one million words edited!! we truly cannot thank the trainers and volunteers enough for their hard work throughout the spring and summer!

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Two very dedicated volunteers from Team Sophia have been working on a volume themselves: Ammonius, De differentia adfinium vocabulorum. Thank you to Zeyu Wen and Zoe Koukoutianou for your hard work!!

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Each and every page we digitize is worked on by 2 volunteers: edited by one volunteer and then reviewed by another. Thanks to Andres Felipe Chauta Velandia from Team Charlotte for all of your reviewing and for helping us to make sure what we export is as accurate as possible!

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Some of our returning volunteers from the Spring session have still been knocking it out of the park throughout the summer! Special thanks to Derek Dimond for helping Team Karina finish some particularly gnarly texts!! 💪

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While we are nearly at the end of the ☀️Summer 2021 Editing Session🏝️, we can't let it slip by without highlighting the fantastic work of Kate Yuan and Chloe Hanstra! They are absolute superstars of the summer session 🤩

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Team Taylor has been FLYING through texts! Two volunteers making that happen are Katerina Krelits and Vivi Lu. No 'thank you' is big enough for the work you have done!!🔥🤗🥇

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So happy Jake Pappo and Matthew Collura joined us during the Summer 2021 editing session- they have done outstanding work!! Thank you both so much! 🧠🍾🏆

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Para has done amazing work over our last two sessions, editing 35 pages with Team Brittany! Keep up the awesome work, @emdashkinson!

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We are absolutely amazed by the work of Ruth Elizabeth Slater, who is well on her way to editing over 100 pages!! Wowowow! @ruthslater9

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Thanks are in order for Evie Edmundson and John Liao from Team Lucy! Keep up the amazing work!! 🥳✨🔥 @lordhubris

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Standing ovation for superstar volunteers Paola Druille and Jan Peternelj, who each have edited HUNDREDS of pages! Thank you for all that you two have done! 💯💐👏

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Daniel's Team has already finished editing 4 texts in Lace...that's nearly 200,000 words! Some of the dedicated people making that happen include Vivian Platanou, Athanasia Stathonikou, and Diana Daif! This program wouldn't be the same without you! 🙌💐🌟@stathonikou

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Huge shoutouts to Niamh Tangney, Niki Borghei, and Savannah Neibart from Team Karina for their astounding work so far! And wish them luck as they begin the volume of Galen and Pseudo Galen 🌜🪐 @alkisthene @SavannahPosts

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Team Karina is beginning work on a collection of Galen and Pseudo Galen. One text, Prognostica de decubitu ex mathematica scientia, is an Astronomy text and uses an astounding amount of pictographs. Team Karina is up to the challenge 💪

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Another amazing milestone! Our team has just finished their 20th text-- that's over 700,000 words edited and verified! 🤩 Soon these texts will call the Scaife Viewer (https://t.co/0K5xBw7Suz) home, all thanks to the dedicated work of our volunteers and trainers!

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Meet our trainers! Elizabeth Zollner graduated from the University of Kansas, where she will be starting a Master's in Classics this fall. Her research interests are in Roman divination and using Distributed Morphology Theory, how impressive! 🧠🤩🙌

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Meet our trainers: Em Setzer! Em is a rising senior at Bard College and a joint major in Classical Studies and Written Arts (Poetry). They love their cats and Dungeons and Dragons and writing poetry. Our team is lucky to have you (and your cats) @EmSetzer !

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Meet our trainers! Kelli Frangoulis graduated from Wake Forest University, where she studied history, classical languages, and comp sci, wow! This fall she will be starting grad school at the University of Maryland to study history and library and information science, double wow!

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Our YouTube channel (volunteers only, very exclusive) has 700 views! Thank you to our volunteers for being thorough and watching our training videos! #DigitalHumanities #OGLP