Category Archives: Technology

New Version of Ancient Greek OCR Released

Visiting research scholar at Perseus, Nick White has released a new version of Ancient Greek OCR, free software to accurately convert scans of printed Ancient Greek into unicode text and PDF files, which can be easily searched, copied, archived, and transformed. … Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on May 2, 2014

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Perseus Catalog records added to VIAF

We are pleased to announce that records from the Perseus Catalog have beed loaded into VIAF as “the first set of personal names from a scholarly resource.” More information on this milestone may be found here: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3455 Our thanks to OCLC Research!

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on November 25, 2013

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Announcing The Perseus Catalog, release 1.0

The Perseus Digital Library is pleased to announce the 1.0 Release of the Perseus Catalog.

The Perseus Catalog is an attempt to provide systematic catalog access to at least one online edition of every major Greek and Latin author (both surviving and fragmentary) from antiquity to 600 CE. Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on June 18, 2013

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Annotation Service Beta

Announcing the beta availability of the Tufts Syntactic Annotation service. This service provides RESTful and Service Layer APIs for requesting (a) syntactic annotations from supported annotation repositories and (b) templates for creation of syntactic annotations of passages and texts. Continue reading →

by Bridget Almas Posted on November 13, 2012

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Morphology Service Beta

Announcing the beta availability of service-based access to the morphological engines used by Perseus for Latin and Greek (Morpheus) and Arabic (Buckwalter). This service leverages a standard Morphology Service API and is made available on an instance of the Bamboo Services Platform. Continue reading →

by Bridget Almas Posted on November 1, 2012

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Help the SDL!

Advance our understanding of the Greco-Roman World!
Contribute to the Scaife Digital Library — improve existing materials and to create new ones!
Everyone can make a difference! Read the sources more closely yourself, learn something for your own enjoyment and at the same time enhance what is available to everyone else!
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by Bridget Almas Posted on July 17, 2012

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Perseus Digital Library Updates

News and announcements from the Perseus Digital Library