By Kilian Mallon | November 22, 2019
Recogito
is a software platform that facilitates annotation of text and images.
Through both automatic annotation and manual annotation by users, the
software links uploaded files to geographic data and facilitates the
sharing and downloading of this data in various formats. The software is
freely available for download through
GitHub,
and a version is also hosted online. In the online version, users have a
private workspace as well as the ability to share documents among a
group or publicly. Recogito was developed from 2013 to 2018 as part of
the
Pelagios network, a much
wider project dedicated to creating gazetteers and tools for annotation,
visualization, pedagogy, collaboration, and registering
linked data.
ANNOTATION
By Chiara Palladino | September 6, 2019
By Janet D. Jones | July 5, 2019
ToposText is a set of tools that
projects the geographic elements of ancient texts onto a mapping of the
ancient world. Users can follow a classical reference from
place-to-text, or from text-to-place. Zooming in on Thebes and clicking
on “
Cadmeia,” for example, takes us to 63 text entries, such as the
Bios Ellados of Heracleides Criticus; clicking on
Bios Ellados
takes us to 36 map locations through 78 text references. The text is
displayed in public-domain English translation (default) with a link to
the original ancient Greek (in this case, at
Bibliotheca Augustana). The places are located through a Google Map interface.
By Julian Yolles | March 25, 2019
Gone
are the days when scholars of Ancient Greek and Latin literature relied
solely on a prodigious memory and a printed library of classical texts,
commentaries, and reference works. Digitized texts and new tools for
textual analysis supplement traditional approaches. These methods do not
require a physical library, and they promise to save time and to
produce new insights.
The Tesserae Project seeks
to take advantage of digital corpora to enable the user to find
connections between texts. Its web interface allows users to search two
texts or corpora from Greek and Latin literature for occurrences of two
or more shared words within a line or phrase.
By Stephen Andrew Sansom | March 1, 2019
The Scaife Viewer
of the Perseus Project pursues a simple goal: to provide a clear and
enjoyable reading experience of the Greek and Latin texts and
translations of the Perseus Digital Library. It is the first installment
of Perseus 5.0 and eventually will replace Perseus’ current interface,
Perseus Hopper,
as the primary means for accessing the texts and translations of the
Perseus library. In its goal to simplify access to Perseus’ repository
of texts, the Scaife Viewer is a success. Its layout is uncluttered, its
texts legible, its design refreshing. As a result, the Scaife Viewer is
a welcome re-imagining of how users read Perseus texts.
By Willeon Slenders | October 26, 2018
Logeion
allows searches of a series of Greek and Latin dictionaries and
classical reference works. It was developed beginning in 2011 at the
University of Chicago by students Josh Goldenberg and Matt Shanahan
under the direction of Professor
Helma Dik, and regularly adds new features and resources. Inspired by the innovative
Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française, also based at the University of Chicago, it began with a nucleus of several reference works originally digitized by
Perseus.
By Charles Hedrick | October 15, 2018
EAGLE, the Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, was conceived in 1997 by the Italian Epigrapher
Silvio Panciera
(1933–2016). Based at Sapienza — Università di Roma, it appeared under
the aegis of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et
Latine (
AIEGL) and an
international steering committee. The site launched in 2003, with the
goal of providing a gateway for the search of all Greek and Latin
inscriptions.
It began with a collaboration of four major databases of Roman inscriptions. Briefly:
By Michael Zellmann-Rohrer | September 24, 2018
Papyri.info is a resource for the study of documentary papyri with two parts. The first, the
Papyrological Navigator (PN),
whose development began in 2006, aims to integrate and allow
simultaneous querying of five existing papyrological databases. The
focus thus far is on Greek and Latin texts, with selective inclusion of
Coptic. A later development, the Papyrological Editor (PE), launched in
2010, offers the facility for users to contribute directly, in the form
of corrections to entered data, new data entry, in particular new text
editions, and even “born digital” editions of their own, all reviewed by
an editorial board.
By Bill Beck | May 7, 2018
The Homer Multitext
(HMT) has something in common with the poetry it documents: They are
both monumental and impressive works whose gradual evolution over many
years by many hands has left traces of its past; it exists in several
forms that present the same information in slightly different ways, and
its development through changing technologies has left occasional
redundancies. Like the
Iliad, it lives up to its title, but
perhaps not in the way one expects. And like its poetic source text, it
richly rewards those who plumb its depths.
By Richard Fernando Buxton | March 20, 2018
As the name suggests, the
Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (
DFHG) is an online edition of Karl Müller’s
Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum
(1841–1873). Müller’s work was a five-volume collection of fragmentary
Greek historians, to which were added (in Latin) overviews of each
author (with embedded
testimonia), translation of fragments,
and, often, brief commentary. Its online successor is elegantly
presented, meticulously cross-referenced and admirably accessible— if
somewhat quixotic. I will begin with an overview of what the
FHG contains, describe the
DFHG’s interface and features, and then offer some thoughts about the usefulness of the project in a context where Jacoby Online (
recently reviewed in this forum by Matt Simonton) already exists.
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