The Digital Classicist Wiki - User contributions [en-gb]

Classical texts on Google Book Search

2018-06-07T14:09:12Z

MischaHooker: /* Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts */

How to find other people's collections of Classical texts that can be accessed via the [http://books.google.com Google Book Search] and similar mass digitization projects?

How to share one's own collection of such texts with others?

== Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts ==

One useful collection can be found at [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin.html Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts]: "Google has digitized over five hundred ancient Greek and Latin books. We present them here downloadable as zip files of images and plain text, and as links to Google Books web pages where you can read them online in full or download PDFs. This collection was selected by Prof. Greg Crane and Alison Babeu of Tufts University, and compiled by Will Brockman and Jon Orwant of Google. Enjoy!" (from the webpage; cf. also the announcement on the [http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-releases-500-scans-of-ancient.html Google Books Blog, June 25, 2010]).

There is also a [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin-limited-distribution.html Limited Distribution] version: "The zip files (...), containing images and plain text, are part of Google Books' research collaboration with Prof. Crane, and are restricted to authorized users within the United States. For authentication, you will be asked for the username and password of your Gmail account." This list of titles can still come in handy, though.

One can also search for [http://www.google.com/search?q=inpublisher:teubneri&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=bks:1,bkv:f full view books with "Teubneri" in the publisher field] to obtain a number of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Teubneriana Teubner editions].

Edwin Donnelly maintains a [http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html list of Loebs with links to Google Books and the Internet Archive], as well as a [http://www.edonnelly.com/google.html wider list of Latin and Greek texts and grammars]. [http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/ Loebolus] aggregates these PDF's in a single location.

Bruce Robertson's [http://heml.mta.ca/lace Lace project] provides OCR'd copies of many public domain Greek and Latin texts available on Google Book Search and Archive.org.

The [http://classicsindex.pbworks.com/w/page/123755106/home classicsindex wiki] shares "indices to Google Book Search and other full-text books online" for the study of Greek and Roman classics, early Judaism, and Christianity (the classicsindex points also to Donnelly's lists).

Wiki is obviously a great way for compiling and publishing such bibliographies. It may also be interesting to note that I found the classicsindex via [http://www.bibsonomy.org BibSonomy], "a blue social bookmark and publication sharing system" (searching for strings [http://www.bibsonomy.org/search/google+greek "google greek"]).

Ryan Baumann's [http://ryanfb.github.io/book-aligner/ Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

See also: [[Digital Facsimile]].

[[category:FAQ]]

Digital Facsimile

2016-08-14T17:35:08Z

MischaHooker: /* Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles */

Many Greek and Latin texts and editions are currently available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles, as page images of printed books or manuscripts. Such images are useful both in research and in teaching (they enable us to use and show old printed books, papyri, medieval and early modern manuscripts). Digital facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, digital "reprints" of rare titles and works.

== Bibliographies of digital facsimiles ==

A meta-bibliography of collections of digital facsimiles is compiled by the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/rarefacsimile/index.html].

Important sources of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search], [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive], and [https://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust]. Useful descriptions of both exist on German Wikisource: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive Internet Archive], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search the GBS]. Ryan Baumann's [http://ryanfb.github.io/book-aligner/ Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

An example of good practice in serving digital facsimiles freely accessible over the internet is the [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek] of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

See also: [[Classical texts on Google Book Search]]

== Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles ==

Specialized lists of titles accessible through these service and important for classicists, can (and should be) compiled and shared, e. g. as contributions to Wikisource (e.g., the list of volumes of [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hermes._Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_classische_Philologie Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie] compiled on German Wikisource), as free-standing websites (e.g., [http://minerva.union.edu/wareht/books/ Tarik Wareh's Public Domain Books for Classicists]), or as contributions to social bookmark and publication sharing services such as [http://www.bibsonomy.org/ BibSonomy] (see an example [http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitisation here]).

== Further reading ==
Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Facsimiles in Editing" in Electronic Textual Editing, Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. ([http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/kiernan.xml Preview available on the TEI site], accessed on June 5, 2010.)

[[category:FAQ]]
[[category:Tools]]

Digital Facsimile

2016-08-14T17:34:34Z

MischaHooker: /* Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles */

Many Greek and Latin texts and editions are currently available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles, as page images of printed books or manuscripts. Such images are useful both in research and in teaching (they enable us to use and show old printed books, papyri, medieval and early modern manuscripts). Digital facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, digital "reprints" of rare titles and works.

== Bibliographies of digital facsimiles ==

A meta-bibliography of collections of digital facsimiles is compiled by the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/rarefacsimile/index.html].

Important sources of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search], [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive], and [https://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust]. Useful descriptions of both exist on German Wikisource: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive Internet Archive], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search the GBS]. Ryan Baumann's [http://ryanfb.github.io/book-aligner/ Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

An example of good practice in serving digital facsimiles freely accessible over the internet is the [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek] of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

See also: [[Classical texts on Google Book Search]]

== Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles ==

Specialized lists of titles accessible through these service and important for classicists, can (and should be) compiled and shared, e. g. as contributions to Wikisource (e.g., the list of volumes of [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hermes._Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_classische_Philologie Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie] compiled on German Wikisource), as free-standing websites (e.g., [http://minerva.union.edu/wareht/books/ Tarik Wareh's Public Domain Books for Classicists]), or to social bookmark and publication sharing services such as [http://www.bibsonomy.org/ BibSonomy] (see an example [http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitisation here]).

== Further reading ==
Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Facsimiles in Editing" in Electronic Textual Editing, Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. ([http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/kiernan.xml Preview available on the TEI site], accessed on June 5, 2010.)

[[category:FAQ]]
[[category:Tools]]

Classical texts on Google Book Search

2016-08-14T17:27:51Z

MischaHooker: /* Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts */

How to find other people's collections of Classical texts that can be accessed via the [http://books.google.com Google Book Search] and similar mass digitization projects?

How to share one's own collection of such texts with others?

== Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts ==

One useful collection can be found at [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin.html Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts]: "Google has digitized over five hundred ancient Greek and Latin books. We present them here downloadable as zip files of images and plain text, and as links to Google Books web pages where you can read them online in full or download PDFs. This collection was selected by Prof. Greg Crane and Alison Babeu of Tufts University, and compiled by Will Brockman and Jon Orwant of Google. Enjoy!" (from the webpage; cf. also the announcement on the [http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-releases-500-scans-of-ancient.html Google Books Blog, June 25, 2010]).

There is also a [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin-limited-distribution.html Limited Distribution] version: "The zip files (...), containing images and plain text, are part of Google Books' research collaboration with Prof. Crane, and are restricted to authorized users within the United States. For authentication, you will be asked for the username and password of your Gmail account." This list of titles can still come in handy, though.

One can also search for [http://www.google.com/search?q=inpublisher:teubneri&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=bks:1,bkv:f full view books with "Teubneri" in the publisher field] to obtain a number of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Teubneriana Teubner editions].

Edwin Donnelly maintains a [http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html list of Loebs with links to Google Books and the Internet Archive], as well as a [http://www.edonnelly.com/google.html wider list of Latin and Greek texts and grammars]. [http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/ Loebolus] aggregates these PDF's in a single location.

Bruce Robertson's [http://heml.mta.ca/lace Lace project] provides OCR'd copies of many public domain Greek and Latin texts available on Google Book Search and Archive.org.

The [http://classicsindex.wikispaces.com/ classicsindex wiki] shares "indices to Google Book Search and other full-text books online" for the study of Greek and Roman classics, early Judaism, and Christianity (the classicsindex points also to Donnelly's lists).

Wiki is obviously a great way for compiling and publishing such bibliographies. It may also be interesting to note that I found the classicsindex via [http://www.bibsonomy.org BibSonomy], "a blue social bookmark and publication sharing system" (searching for strings [http://www.bibsonomy.org/search/google+greek "google greek"]).

Ryan Baumann's [http://ryanfb.github.io/book-aligner/ Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

See also: [[Digital Facsimile]].

[[category:FAQ]]

Digital Facsimile

2016-08-14T17:27:26Z

MischaHooker: /* Bibliographies of digital facsimiles */

Many Greek and Latin texts and editions are currently available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles, as page images of printed books or manuscripts. Such images are useful both in research and in teaching (they enable us to use and show old printed books, papyri, medieval and early modern manuscripts). Digital facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, digital "reprints" of rare titles and works.

== Bibliographies of digital facsimiles ==

A meta-bibliography of collections of digital facsimiles is compiled by the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/rarefacsimile/index.html].

Important sources of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search], [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive], and [https://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust]. Useful descriptions of both exist on German Wikisource: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive Internet Archive], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search the GBS]. Ryan Baumann's [http://ryanfb.github.io/book-aligner/ Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

An example of good practice in serving digital facsimiles freely accessible over the internet is the [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek] of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

See also: [[Classical texts on Google Book Search]]

== Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles ==

Specialized lists of titles accessible through these service and important for classicists, can (and should be) compiled and shared, e. g. as contributions to Wikisource (cf. the list of volumes of [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hermes._Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_classische_Philologie Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie] compiled on German Wikisource), or to social bookmark and publication sharing services such as [http://www.bibsonomy.org/ BibSonomy] (see an example [http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitisation here]).

== Further reading ==
Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Facsimiles in Editing" in Electronic Textual Editing, Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. ([http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/kiernan.xml Preview available on the TEI site], accessed on June 5, 2010.)

[[category:FAQ]]
[[category:Tools]]

Digital Facsimile

2016-08-14T17:11:47Z

MischaHooker: /* Bibliographies of digital facsimiles */

Many Greek and Latin texts and editions are currently available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles, as page images of printed books or manuscripts. Such images are useful both in research and in teaching (they enable us to use and show old printed books, papyri, medieval and early modern manuscripts). Digital facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, digital "reprints" of rare titles and works.

== Bibliographies of digital facsimiles ==

A meta-bibliography of collections of digital facsimiles is compiled by the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/rarefacsimile/index.html].

Important sources of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search], [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive], and [https://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust]. Useful descriptions of both exist on German Wikisource: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive Internet Archive], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search the GBS]. Ryan Baumann's [https://github.com/ryanfb/book-aligner Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

An example of good practice in serving digital facsimiles freely accessible over the internet is the [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek] of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

See also: [[Classical texts on Google Book Search]]

== Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles ==

Specialized lists of titles accessible through these service and important for classicists, can (and should be) compiled and shared, e. g. as contributions to Wikisource (cf. the list of volumes of [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hermes._Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_classische_Philologie Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie] compiled on German Wikisource), or to social bookmark and publication sharing services such as [http://www.bibsonomy.org/ BibSonomy] (see an example [http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitisation here]).

== Further reading ==
Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Facsimiles in Editing" in Electronic Textual Editing, Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. ([http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/kiernan.xml Preview available on the TEI site], accessed on June 5, 2010.)

[[category:FAQ]]
[[category:Tools]]

Digital Facsimile

2016-08-14T17:08:39Z

MischaHooker: /* Bibliographies of digital facsimiles */

Many Greek and Latin texts and editions are currently available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles, as page images of printed books or manuscripts. Such images are useful both in research and in teaching (they enable us to use and show old printed books, papyri, medieval and early modern manuscripts). Digital facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, digital "reprints" of rare titles and works.

== Bibliographies of digital facsimiles ==

A meta-bibliography of collections of digital facsimiles is compiled by the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/rarefacsimile/index.html].

Important sources of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search] and [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive]. Useful descriptions of both exist on German Wikisource: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive Internet Archive], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search the GBS]. Ryan Baumann's [https://github.com/ryanfb/book-aligner Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

An example of good practice in serving digital facsimiles freely accessible over the internet is the [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek] of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

See also: [[Classical texts on Google Book Search]]

== Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles ==

Specialized lists of titles accessible through these service and important for classicists, can (and should be) compiled and shared, e. g. as contributions to Wikisource (cf. the list of volumes of [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hermes._Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_classische_Philologie Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie] compiled on German Wikisource), or to social bookmark and publication sharing services such as [http://www.bibsonomy.org/ BibSonomy] (see an example [http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitisation here]).

== Further reading ==
Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Facsimiles in Editing" in Electronic Textual Editing, Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. ([http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/kiernan.xml Preview available on the TEI site], accessed on June 5, 2010.)

[[category:FAQ]]
[[category:Tools]]

Digital Facsimile

2016-08-14T17:06:20Z

MischaHooker: /* Bibliographies of digital facsimiles */

Many Greek and Latin texts and editions are currently available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles, as page images of printed books or manuscripts. Such images are useful both in research and in teaching (they enable us to use and show old printed books, papyri, medieval and early modern manuscripts). Digital facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, digital "reprints" of rare titles and works.

== Bibliographies of digital facsimiles ==

A meta-bibliography of collections of digital facsimiles is compiled by the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/webres/rarefacsimile/index.html].

Important sources of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search] and [https://archive.org/ Internet Archive]. Useful descriptions of both exist on German Wikisource: [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive Internet Archive], [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search the GBS]. Ryan Baumann's [https://github.com/ryanfb/book-aligner Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

An example of good practice in serving digital facsimiles freely accessible over the internet is the [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/ Digitale Bibliothek] of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

== Compiling own lists of digital facsimiles ==

Specialized lists of titles accessible through these service and important for classicists, can (and should be) compiled and shared, e. g. as contributions to Wikisource (cf. the list of volumes of [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Hermes._Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_classische_Philologie Hermes. Zeitschrift für classische Philologie] compiled on German Wikisource), or to social bookmark and publication sharing services such as [http://www.bibsonomy.org/ BibSonomy] (see an example [http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/filologanoga/digitisation here]).

== Further reading ==
Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Facsimiles in Editing" in Electronic Textual Editing, Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions and Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. ([http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/kiernan.xml Preview available on the TEI site], accessed on June 5, 2010.)

[[category:FAQ]]
[[category:Tools]]

Classical texts on Google Book Search

2016-08-14T17:04:27Z

MischaHooker: /* Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts */

How to find other people's collections of Classical texts that can be accessed via the [http://books.google.com Google Book Search] and similar mass digitization projects?

How to share one's own collection of such texts with others?

== Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts ==

One useful collection can be found at [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin.html Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts]: "Google has digitized over five hundred ancient Greek and Latin books. We present them here downloadable as zip files of images and plain text, and as links to Google Books web pages where you can read them online in full or download PDFs. This collection was selected by Prof. Greg Crane and Alison Babeu of Tufts University, and compiled by Will Brockman and Jon Orwant of Google. Enjoy!" (from the webpage; cf. also the announcement on the [http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-releases-500-scans-of-ancient.html Google Books Blog, June 25, 2010]).

There is also a [http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin-limited-distribution.html Limited Distribution] version: "The zip files (...), containing images and plain text, are part of Google Books' research collaboration with Prof. Crane, and are restricted to authorized users within the United States. For authentication, you will be asked for the username and password of your Gmail account." This list of titles can still come in handy, though.

One can also search for [http://www.google.com/search?q=inpublisher:teubneri&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=bks:1,bkv:f full view books with "Teubneri" in the publisher field] to obtain a number of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Teubneriana Teubner editions].

Edwin Donnelly maintains a [http://www.edonnelly.com/loebs.html list of Loebs with links to Google Books and the Internet Archive], as well as a [http://www.edonnelly.com/google.html wider list of Latin and Greek texts and grammars]. [http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/ Loebolus] aggregates these PDF's in a single location.

Bruce Robertson's [http://heml.mta.ca/lace Lace project] provides OCR'd copies of many public domain Greek and Latin texts available on Google Book Search and Archive.org.

The [http://classicsindex.wikispaces.com/ classicsindex wiki] shares "indices to Google Book Search and other full-text books online" for the study of Greek and Roman classics, early Judaism, and Christianity (the classicsindex points also to Donnelly's lists).

Wiki is obviously a great way for compiling and publishing such bibliographies. It may also be interesting to note that I found the classicsindex via [http://www.bibsonomy.org BibSonomy], "a blue social bookmark and publication sharing system" (searching for strings [http://www.bibsonomy.org/search/google+greek "google greek"]).

Ryan Baumann's [https://github.com/ryanfb/book-aligner Book Aligner] offers scripts to make it easier to identify parallel resources on Google Books, Internet Archive, HathiTrust, etc.

See also: [[Digital Facsimile]].

[[category:FAQ]]