Category Archives: Suggestions

Who is using Clarin or Dariah to work with historical languages?

ShareTweet Gregory Crane February 24, 2018 Who is using Clarin (https://www.clarin.eu/) and/or Dariah (https://www.dariah.eu/), and particularly the German subprojects https://www.clarin-d.net/de/ and https://de.dariah.eu/, to work with historical languages? If so, are you doing so as a funded member of Clarin or … Continue reading Continue reading

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Why we need user profiles and a new Perseus

Alison Babeu called my attention to a recent blog by a Princeton Classics undergrad that really captured a major challenge and opportunity for a new Perseus. Solveig Lucia Gold described her own reaction to the ups and downs of using the reading support that Perseus has offered for Greek and Latin for decades (and, indeed, since before many of our undergraduates were born, if we consider the CD ROM versions of Perseus). The situation will be even better — or worse — when we finally integrate treebanks and alignments between the source texts and the translations. Continue reading

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Getting to open data for Classical Greek and Latin: breaking old habits and undoing the damage — a call for comment!

This blog post addresses two barriers that prevent students of historical languages such as Classical Greek and Latin from shifting to a fully open intellectual ecosystem: (1) the practice of giving control of scholarly work to commercial entities that then use their monopoly rights to generate revenue and (2) the legacy rights over critical editions that scholars have already handed over to commercial entities. Continue reading

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Suggestions for new Greek, Latin texts? English translations?

What would you like to see added to the Perseus Digital Library, both for use within the Perseus site and for download as TEI XML under a Creative Commons license? Note that we only enter materials that are in the public domain and that can be freely redistributed for re-use by others. Continue reading

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