BA, History, The Pennsylvania State University

Ethan is the Web and Database Developer for the ANS. With more than five years of experience in digital humanities and cultural heritage web development projects, Ethan is responsible for developing a new public interface for the society's collections of objects and archives. He is the chief architect of Numishare, an open-source framework for delivering coin collections online, which originated during his tenure in the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library.

Ethan is also a part-time graduate student in the classical art and archaeology program at the University of Virginia, where he applies his technical abilities to academic projects, including the digitization of the University of Virginia Art Museum numismatic collection and several 3D modeling projects: Pompeii's House of the Faun and the House of the Drinking Contest near Antioch. He specializes in the recontextualization of art within built environments through lighting simulation. Ethan is also member of the Pompeii Forum Project and will contribute 3D models as part of its final publication.

Selected publications:

Gruber, Ethan and John Dobbins. "Illuminating Historical Architecture: The House of the Drinking Contest at Antioch." In the proceedings for Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2010 held in Granada, Spain 6-9 April, 2010. In review.

Fitzpatrick, Chris, Ethan Gruber, Bill Parod, and Scott Prater. “XForms for Libraries: An Introduction.” Code4Lib Journal 11: September 2010. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3916

Gruber, Ethan. "Encoded Archival Description for Numismatic Collections." In CAA 2009 Held in Williamsburg, Virginia 22-26 March 2009. Williamsburg, VA: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, 2009.