The Digital Latin Library
Our two-fold mission
The Digital Latin Library (DLL) is a joint project of the Society for Classical Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Renaissance Society of America. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications Program funds the project, and the University of Oklahoma hosts it.
- Publishing and curating critical editions of Latin texts, of all types, from all eras, and to facilitate an ongoing scholarly conversation about these texts through open collaboration and annotation.
- Facilitating the finding and, where openly available and accessible online, the reading of all texts written in Latin.
We use the word "library" to describe our project because that word's many meanings apply to what we're building: a library of texts and resources, a place where individuals and groups can study and collaborate on projects, a series of volumes published according to a uniform standard, and resources for digital applications.
Welcome to the Digital Latin Library's Catalog!
This site supports the DLL's mission of "facilitating the finding and, where openly available and accessible online, the reading of all texts written in Latin."
The DLL Catalog provides an organized, curated system for finding Latin texts available online.
Currently, it contains authority records for nearly 3,000 authors and 5,000 works, with many more to come. It also contains individual item records for hundreds of texts available in a variety of formats through many different resources such as the Perseus Digital Library, the Packard Humanities Institute, DigilibLT, the HathiTrust Digital Library, and others.
The "Catalog Updates" section below records items added to the catalog. Check the list of current projects for more information.
Otherwise, use the search bar or click "Browse the Catalog" above to get started, or read more about this site and how to get the most out of it.
Catalog Updates
Biblioteca Italiana (BibIT)
Metadata for all Latin content on http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it, which includes many works in Medieval and Neo-Latin, is available in a convenient reader view at http://www.internetculturale.it. For that reason, we built and ran a scraper on that site and pulled metadata only from Latin texts in BibIT. In all, 145 items were added on 2018-07-07. Going forward, the plan is to reconnect to the site on a quarterly basis and process any new records that have been added since the last connection.
Post date: Fri, 07/06/2018 - 19:00Perseus Digital Library
Instead of scraping the collection available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper, we built an application to process the texts in the git repository at https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit. We did this because, as its name suggests, the repository is canonical for the old Perseus site and the new Scaife Viewer (https://scaife.perseus.org). Since the Scaife Viewer does not yet have all of the texts from the old site, we included links to the Scaife Viewer where they are available. Otherwise, the links point to the old Perseus site. It is clear that this collection will need active monitoring, since it is undergoing many changes. The total number of items from the Perseus repository added to the DLL Catalog on 2018-06-25 was 452.
Post date: Sun, 06/24/2018 - 19:00Packard Humanities Institute Classical Latin Texts
Metadata for all content on http://latin.packhum.org as of 2017-12-07 has been scraped, processed, and added to the site. The total number of items uploaded was 836. Since the PHI is not currently under active development, it is unlikely that it will require active monitoring for new additions.
Post date: Wed, 12/06/2017 - 18:00Digital Library of Late-antique Latin Texts
Metadata for all content that was on http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it as of 2017-10-17 has been scraped, processed, and added to the DLL Catalog. The total number of items uploaded at that time was 425. Going forward, the plan is to reconnect to the site on a quarterly basis and process any new records that have been added since the last connection.
Post date: Mon, 10/16/2017 - 19:00
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