This site is an evolving host for my projects in the digital humanities that are currently in progress and also a host for older projects that I am no longer actively working on. You can browse all of these projects using the links below. Please feel free to contact me at rydbergcoxj {at} umkc {dot} edu with questions or comments on any of the work you find on this site.

daedalus.umkc.edu/FirstGreekBook.
A project to create a digital edition of John William White's First Greek Book that was originally published in 1896. The book contains a guided curriculum for Classical Greek built around the language and vocabulary of Xenophon’s Anabasis. This digital tutorial is an evolving edition that is designed to run on both traditional browsers, tablet devices, and phones.

The CODICES Digital Humanities Lab is a digital studio for the optical, chemical, and computational analysis of manuscripts, texts, and early printed books with a collaborative working group of faculty, students and librarians.

I worked with the Lexicon team at Cambridge University to create a database of lexicographic slips that was used when writing dictionary entries for the Cambridge Greek Lexicon that was published in 2021.

daedalus.umkc.edu/StatisticalMethods/
A hands-on workshop that I initially ran at the University of Kansas’s Digital Humanities Forum. This site introduces the R environment, describe data structures in R, and provides practical examples.

daedalus.umkc.edu/VisualExplorer
The Visual Explorer for the Language of Greek Tragedy attempts to use social network graphs as a tool to visualize linguistic data drawn from Greek tragedies.

A project funded by the National Library of Medicine in 2004 and 2005 to create Greek and English digital editions of works by Hippocrates.

The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies project ran from 2002 until 2005 and was a Collaborative Project to Create Computational Tools For The Study of Ancient Greek, Early Modern Latin, and Old Norse.

I published this book with Chandos Press in 2005 arguing that digital libraries as they were being constructed at that time needed to take into account the needs and approaches of digital humanities.

A commentary for beginning Greek Students on five speeches by Lysias (Speeches 1, 2, 3, 4, and 24) that I published with Focus Press in 2003.