URL: http://chs75.harvard.edu/projects/diginc/techpub/cts

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

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

=== Description ===

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 [http://homermultitext.blogspot.com/ blog]).

=== Bibliography ===
[http://www.citeulike.org/user/AlisonBabeu/tag/canonical-text-services A CiteULike CTS bibliography] by Alison Babeu.

[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:openaccess]]

Canonical Text Services

2010-09-25T18:34:45Z

NevenJovanovic: /* Applications */

Canonical Text Services

2010-09-25T18:33:56Z

NevenJovanovic: /* Description */

URL: http://chs75.harvard.edu/projects/diginc/techpub/cts

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

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

=== Description ===

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 [http://homermultitext.blogspot.com/ blog]).

[[Category:Tools]]
[[Category:openaccess]]

2010-06-17T21:45:22Z

NevenJovanovic: pointer to Digital Facsimile

2010-06-05T19:14:30Z

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

A lot of Greek and Latin texts are available on the internet in the form of digital facsimiles --- page images of printed books or manuscripts. Digital facsimiles are useful both in research and in teaching (especially facsimiles of old printed books, of papyri, of medieval and early modern manuscripts). Such facsimiles can be addenda to, or even an interim solution for, re-publication 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].

An important source of digital facsimiles are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books Google Book Search] and Internet Archive (a good description on [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Internet_Archive German Wikisource], where a useful [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search description of GBS] can also be found).

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].

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Digital Facsimile

2010-06-05T19:12:48Z

NevenJovanovic:

Greek and Latin texts in digital form

2010-06-04T21:52:46Z

NevenJovanovic: /* Downloadable texts */

== Where can I find collections of Greek and Latin texts? ==

There are a few aspects to this question:

# searchable databases of Greek and Latin texts which one can query to find instances of words in context, statistical and linguistic examples, etc.
# collections of Greek and Latin texts available for downloading and/or copy and pasting into articles, handouts, etc.
# Greek and Latin texts with translations, useful for translation and contrastive linguistic studies.

=== Searchable texts ===

The main databases are:

# TLG, for Greek texts
# Perseus with a smaller text base but more sophisticated tools and search engines
# PHI for Greek inscriptions
# DDBDP for documentary papyri
# EDH for Latin inscriptions
# More to be added...

==== More information ====

# The TLG is a huge collection of encoded ancient and mediaeval Greek texts. By far the best way to use the TLG is to buy a license for the TLG Online, but an institutional license is expensive and not all departments will be willing to pay for one. (See http://www.tlg.uci.edu/lic.html for information.) A personal license is more affordable, but cannot be shared, mounted on a department machine, etc. If you have the site license, you can use these from any fixed IP machines (i.e. on-campus, e.g. in your office, a computer lab, etc.) that you have registered with the TLG. I think the way this is calculated is that the more machines you register, the more the license costs. Departments who still have the old CD Rom #E (last updated in 2000) find that this is cheaper, but it is not as good: older texts, less coverage, no updates. Plus you have to acquire third-party software (these are not necessarily expensive, but not always reliable and certainly not as good as the online search engine.) See also [[Search_the_TLG_and_PHI_databases]]
# [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus] have a fair collection of canonical Greek and Latin texts, limited in number, but very richly enhanced by parallel original and translated versions, dictionary and search tools, statistics, morphological parsing, mythological encyplopaedia, etc.
# PHI also have a CD Rom (7.0) of Greek inscriptions and documentary papyri: this is in the same format as the TLG CD Rom, and needs the same third-party software to search. However, the Greek inscriptions are also available freely online at http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/, which is good.
# The documentary papyri (also on the PHI CD Rom) can be searched freely online at Perseus through the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_DDBDP.html. This collection is apparently a little bit problematic, and the people are Duke are currently working to get a new version of the corpus together.
# For Latin inscriptions the [http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/ Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg] is probably the largest searchable corpus, although there are others, some connected to the [[EAGLE]] project, others not.
# For a CD of all the main Latin juridic texts see Biblioteca Iuris Antiqui. This gives the full text and bibliography on Roman law. Also useful is its thesaurus of over 8000 terms relating to ancient law.
# Biblioteca Teubneriana Latina CD: the electronic version of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana. This has the complete texts (without preface or critical apparatus) of the print editions with (BTL-2) over 800 texts from nearly 400 authors. Coverage claims to be Latin literature from the Roman Republic to the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity with yearly updates available.
# Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT5 - previously known as CETEDOC): Patristic and medieval Latin literature from the second to fifteenth centuries. In addition they claim (I've not yet checked) to include all the works from the classical period as well as from the 'beginning' of Latin Literature (Livius Andronicus 240BC) through to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).
# Epigraph - a CD database of Roman inscriptions of Vol VI of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. This fully searchable allowing searches to be made on inscription numbers, text strings, cognomina, greek text, numerals, Claudian letters, ligatures, reversed letters, short letters and tall letters.
# Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Latin Library texts now in version 5.3 has full Latin texts and Bible versions up to the Second Century AD. This is probably the standard research tool as it is readily available in libraries and departments. Like TLG it also needs search software to make it work. A popular and easy to use one is Musaios ([http://www.musaios.com/ downloadable] from the web).
# An Italian project, [http://www.intratext.com/LAT/ IntraText Digital Library], has a quite extensive collection of freely accessible, searchable Latin texts (ancient, medieval and newer), linked to its concordances, enhanced with basic text-analytical data; simpler and more static, but also also faster to load than Perseus (at least from Europe), the IntraText Digital Library is somewhat more sophisticated than the Latin Library, whose texts it often re-uses.
# Thesaurus Linguae Latinae - the third edition is now out there. For the Bryn Mawr Classical Review on this see; http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-02-19.html (blogged on the Stoa).
# More specialist Latin texts on CD are out there but require a little research - such as Aristoteles Latinus (ALCD) which is an electronic version of the printed series containing the complete corpus of the medieval translations of the works of Aristotle.
# Online Latin texts as noted above are available on [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus], often in a variety of editions along with (various) translations with useful links to morphological and lexicographical tools.

=== Downloadable texts ===

# [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ The Latin Library] has a simple to find and easy to download comprehensive collection of Latin texts. These are all texts collected from the public domain, have no critical apparatus or other indications of editions etc and so are not intended for research but nevertheless are convenient and available. This is made clear if you read the notes at the bottom of the home page.
# [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus] (see above A.(2)) have a considerable range of both Greek and Latin texts - some with multiple editions. When downloading texts, remember to switch off all the hyperlinks (go to 'Configure display' / Word Study Links select no) otherwise they will be downloaded as well. Translations are also available as well although sometimes in antiquated and stilted English. See also the copyright notice linked at the top of each page which says these materials are "provided for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public" but are copyrighted and not in the Public Domain.
# [http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html Bibliotheca Augustana] by Prof. em. Ulrich Harsch is an extensive collection of Greek, Latin (also Medieval and Neo-Latin), and other texts for reading (individually or with students). In the Greek and Latin section editor's notes on periods and authors are in Greek [http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html#gr] and Latin [http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/augustana.html#la] respectively, which adds didactic value. Harsch's design of [http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lspost01/Persius/per_satu.html Persius' Satyres' page] is especially attractive, as it mimics a papyrus scroll.

=== Texts with translations ===

# [http://romulus-bg.net/?page=library Romulus Bulgaricus] is an interesting collection of texts insofar as it contrasts, side by side, classical Latin texts and its Bulgarian translations. Although not finished yet (many texts are to be added), and with little searching and interlinking capability, it presents a provocative starting point for translation studies research and teaching.

==See also==
* [[Digital Critical Editions of Texts in Greek and Latin]]

[[category:FAQ]]

Greek and Latin texts in digital form

2010-06-04T21:44:24Z

NevenJovanovic: /* Where can I find databases of Greek and Latin texts? */

== Where can I find collections of Greek and Latin texts? ==

There are a few aspects to this question:

# searchable databases of Greek and Latin texts which one can query to find instances of words in context, statistical and linguistic examples, etc.
# collections of Greek and Latin texts available for downloading and/or copy and pasting into articles, handouts, etc.
# Greek and Latin texts with translations, useful for translation and contrastive linguistic studies.

=== Searchable texts ===

The main databases are:

# TLG, for Greek texts
# Perseus with a smaller text base but more sophisticated tools and search engines
# PHI for Greek inscriptions
# DDBDP for documentary papyri
# EDH for Latin inscriptions
# More to be added...

==== More information ====

# The TLG is a huge collection of encoded ancient and mediaeval Greek texts. By far the best way to use the TLG is to buy a license for the TLG Online, but an institutional license is expensive and not all departments will be willing to pay for one. (See http://www.tlg.uci.edu/lic.html for information.) A personal license is more affordable, but cannot be shared, mounted on a department machine, etc. If you have the site license, you can use these from any fixed IP machines (i.e. on-campus, e.g. in your office, a computer lab, etc.) that you have registered with the TLG. I think the way this is calculated is that the more machines you register, the more the license costs. Departments who still have the old CD Rom #E (last updated in 2000) find that this is cheaper, but it is not as good: older texts, less coverage, no updates. Plus you have to acquire third-party software (these are not necessarily expensive, but not always reliable and certainly not as good as the online search engine.) See also [[Search_the_TLG_and_PHI_databases]]
# [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus] have a fair collection of canonical Greek and Latin texts, limited in number, but very richly enhanced by parallel original and translated versions, dictionary and search tools, statistics, morphological parsing, mythological encyplopaedia, etc.
# PHI also have a CD Rom (7.0) of Greek inscriptions and documentary papyri: this is in the same format as the TLG CD Rom, and needs the same third-party software to search. However, the Greek inscriptions are also available freely online at http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/, which is good.
# The documentary papyri (also on the PHI CD Rom) can be searched freely online at Perseus through the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_DDBDP.html. This collection is apparently a little bit problematic, and the people are Duke are currently working to get a new version of the corpus together.
# For Latin inscriptions the [http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/ Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg] is probably the largest searchable corpus, although there are others, some connected to the [[EAGLE]] project, others not.
# For a CD of all the main Latin juridic texts see Biblioteca Iuris Antiqui. This gives the full text and bibliography on Roman law. Also useful is its thesaurus of over 8000 terms relating to ancient law.
# Biblioteca Teubneriana Latina CD: the electronic version of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana. This has the complete texts (without preface or critical apparatus) of the print editions with (BTL-2) over 800 texts from nearly 400 authors. Coverage claims to be Latin literature from the Roman Republic to the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity with yearly updates available.
# Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT5 - previously known as CETEDOC): Patristic and medieval Latin literature from the second to fifteenth centuries. In addition they claim (I've not yet checked) to include all the works from the classical period as well as from the 'beginning' of Latin Literature (Livius Andronicus 240BC) through to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).
# Epigraph - a CD database of Roman inscriptions of Vol VI of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. This fully searchable allowing searches to be made on inscription numbers, text strings, cognomina, greek text, numerals, Claudian letters, ligatures, reversed letters, short letters and tall letters.
# Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Latin Library texts now in version 5.3 has full Latin texts and Bible versions up to the Second Century AD. This is probably the standard research tool as it is readily available in libraries and departments. Like TLG it also needs search software to make it work. A popular and easy to use one is Musaios ([http://www.musaios.com/ downloadable] from the web).
# An Italian project, [http://www.intratext.com/LAT/ IntraText Digital Library], has a quite extensive collection of freely accessible, searchable Latin texts (ancient, medieval and newer), linked to its concordances, enhanced with basic text-analytical data; simpler and more static, but also also faster to load than Perseus (at least from Europe), the IntraText Digital Library is somewhat more sophisticated than the Latin Library, whose texts it often re-uses.
# Thesaurus Linguae Latinae - the third edition is now out there. For the Bryn Mawr Classical Review on this see; http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-02-19.html (blogged on the Stoa).
# More specialist Latin texts on CD are out there but require a little research - such as Aristoteles Latinus (ALCD) which is an electronic version of the printed series containing the complete corpus of the medieval translations of the works of Aristotle.
# Online Latin texts as noted above are available on [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus], often in a variety of editions along with (various) translations with useful links to morphological and lexicographical tools.

=== Downloadable texts ===

# [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ The Latin Library] has a simple to find and easy to download comprehensive collection of Latin texts. These are all texts collected from the public domain, have no critical apparatus or other indications of editions etc and so are not intended for research but nevertheless are convenient and available. This is made clear if you read the notes at the bottom of the home page.
# [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ Perseus] (see above A.(2)) have a considerable range of both Greek and Latin texts - some with multiple editions. When downloading texts, remember to switch off all the hyperlinks (go to 'Configure display' / Word Study Links select no) otherwise they will be downloaded as well. Translations are also available as well although sometimes in antiquated and stilted English. See also the copyright notice linked at the top of each page which says these materials are "provided for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public" but are copyrighted and not in the Public Domain.

=== Texts with translations ===

# [http://romulus-bg.net/?page=library Romulus Bulgaricus] is an interesting collection of texts insofar as it contrasts, side by side, classical Latin texts and its Bulgarian translations. Although not finished yet (many texts are to be added), and with little searching and interlinking capability, it presents a provocative starting point for translation studies research and teaching.

==See also==
* [[Digital Critical Editions of Texts in Greek and Latin]]

[[category:FAQ]]

User talk:RyanBaumann

2010-06-04T21:31:17Z

NevenJovanovic:

Ryan, nice redirection for OCR Greek. I was thinking about doing the same, but was not exactly sure how to do wiki redirections (yes, and I was lazy, too).
--[[User:NevenJovanovic|NevenJovanovic]] 22:31, 4 June 2010 (BST)