Canonical Text Services

Available

• http://www.homermultitext.org/hmt-docs/cite/

Authors

• Christopher Blackwell
• Neel Smith

Description

Canonical Text Services identify and retrieve passages of text cited by canonical reference.

The Canonical (previously 'Classical') Text Services specification defines a network service for identifying texts and retrieving fragments of texts using notions of "work" and "citation" traditional in classical studies and other literary disciplines.

Applications

One classical project which uses Canonical Text Services is the Homer Multitext (cf. information on its blog).

The Perseus Project also relies on CTS architecture, see [1].

Bibliography

CITE Architecture

A Brief Guide to the CTS URNs

A CiteULike CTS bibliography by Alison Babeu.

Older code and documentation addresses

URL: http://chs75.harvard.edu/projects/diginc/techpub/cts (Dead link: 2014-07-10)

The project also has a Sourceforge site, with more recent information: http://cts3.sourceforge.net/

There is a mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cts3-general