Open Greek & Latin

Open Greek & Latin

An international collaboration committed to creating an open educational resource featuring a corpus of digital texts, deep-reading tools, and open-source software. We strive to support and enhance teaching and research. All materials can be downloaded, modified, and redistributed in accordance with all applicable licenses.

Texts

Read texts from all available partner repositories using the Scaife Viewer, a custom Canonical Text Services (CTS) compliant reading environment.

Data & Tools

Data sources for the text and tool libraries:

OGL First1KGreek corpus on GitHub
Perseus Greek corpus on GitHub
Perseus Latin corpus on GitHub
OGL CSEL corpus on GitHub
OGL Latin corpus on GitHub

Tools and source code:

Lace: Visualizing, Editing and Searching Polylingual OCR Results
Lace on GitHub
Scaife Viewer on GitHub
The Classical Language Toolkit

Partners

First Thousand Years of Greek

This project aims to collect at least one edition of every Greek work composed between Homer and 250 CE with a focus on texts that do not already exist in other open source environments.

Perseus Digital Library

In the context of Open Greek & Latin, Perseus will offer open source, CTS versions of all public domain Perseus-published texts for integration and reuse.

LACE at Mount Allison University

The Lace application supports the visualization, editing, and searching of polylingual OCR results. OGL uses Lace for ancient Greek and Latin text digitization.

Eldarion

Eldarion has provided the web application support to build the Scaife Viewer, a new reading environment for the Open Greek & Latin texts.

Center for Hellenic Studies

The CHS provides support for outreach and training through initiatives such as student internships, work on a new commentary environment for close reading.

University of Virginia Library

Work at UVA Library includes digitization support, library outreach, and student internships.

Harvard Library

The Harvard Library provides support in collection acquisition and management, including document identification, digitization work, and collection integration.

The Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig

As of 2020, a now retired partner, the DH Chair in Leipzig provided the basis for fundamental textual work. work such as digitization and markup, CTS compliance and presentation, and repository management.