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=== Frequently Asked Questions ===

Please add your questions here, or by posting them to the [http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/DIGITALCLASSICIST.html discussion group]. Answers to your questions will appear as and when users post them.

When an entry in this FAQ has grown to the status of an article or is stable and
definitive, it may be moved to a more static home.

=== Guides to Good Practice ===

Many guides to good practice can be found at the following sites:

* [http://www.stoa.org/guides/ Stoa Consortium]
* [http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Digital Medievalist]
* [http://www.chs.harvard.edu/classicsat/issue_2/index.html Classics@ vol. 2 ("Cultural Informatics")] (Temporarily unavailable)
* [http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/index.htm Arts and Humanities Data Service]
* [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/content/publications
.htm King's Digital Consultancy Service]
* [http://www.unc.edu/awmc/topics.html Ancient World Mapping Centre]

(We should index significant guides from these sites, and others, some time, a beginning of this index can be found at the bottom of the [Resources.html Resources] page...)

=== Questions ===

=== Essential preliminary ===

# I already have technical support, so what's this [[HumComp|Humanities Computing]]?
# [[Surely a web publication is less prestigious than a paper book?]]
# [[ePub|What makes a digital publication useful?]]
# [[What are the implications of using XML/a database for a text project?]]
# [[BetaCode|Should I use TLG betacode or Unicode for polytonic classical Greek in my electronic publications?]]
# [[Standards|What are open standards and why are they important?]]
# [[Electronic publication: online vs. static media]]

=== Typographical and font issues ===

# [[Font|What Greek fonts should I use on my PC/Mac?]] (short answer: Unicode)
# [[Keyboard|How do I type Greek on my PC/Mac?]]
# [[How do I make sure that Greek in my web pages displays properly in Firefox/Explorer?]]
# [[What typographical tools/standards should I use to have more control over the appearance of my printed text?]]
# [[WhyTypeGreekInLaTeXWithBabelAndPsgreek|Why type Greek in LaTeX with Babel and psgreek?]]

# [[psgTex|How to get psgreek on MiKTeX?]]
# [[sanskrit|How do I type and display Sanskrit on my PC/Mac?]]
# [[How do I install WinGreek under Word Perfect 5.0?]]
# How do I type and display Hebrew / Russian / Hierglyphics / Cuneiform / etc.?
# [[meter|What Unicode characters should we use to encode Greek metrical symbols?]]
# [[circumflex|How can I type a circumflex onomikron, epsilon or any other letter?]]

=== Other user issues ===

# [[search|How do I find Classical sites on the WWW?]]
# [[grLatTexts|Where can I find databases of Greek and Latin texts?]]
# [[tlgSearch|What software do I need to search the TLG database (or PHI, etc.)?]]

# [[How do I scan Greek text as text (OCR)]]
# [[digitalcritical|What digital critical editions of texts in Greek and Latin are published on the WWW?]]

=== Research questions ===

# What computer simulation tools are available for modelling populations, etc.?
# How do I encode GIS infomation in my archaeological plans?
# What flavour of XML should I use to mark-up my text project for the web?
# How can computer applications assist in the teaching/learning of languages?
# What tools are available for parsing Greek/Latin?
# What tools are available for concording Greek/Latin texts

# Has anyone done any work on speech-recognition/simulation in Greek and Latin?
# How should we encode lexicographic data?
# What software is available for marking up and representing prosopography/genealogies?
# What statistical software/advice should I be looking at?

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=== Events ===

These pages seek to inform about forthcoming events (conferences, colloquia, lectures, etc.) related to research in Classical Studies/Ancient History involving computing technologies.

=== Conferences ===

=== Future ===

* Open Source Critical Editions workshop, King's College London, 22 September 2006. (programme to be announced)
* [http://digitalclassicist.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/edit/Events/asnt2006?parent=Main.Events Ancient Sources New Technologies 2006, Gieï¿½en, Germany?]
* (to be added)

=== Past ===

* [http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/ CLiP: Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world ], June 29 - July 1, 2006, King's College London
* [http://www.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/ Teuchos Project, Hamburg ], workshop 20-22 January, 2006
* Arezzo. http://web-linux.unisi.it/tdtc/digimed/ January 2006
* [http://insaph.kcl.ac.uk/project/calendar/cambridge.html Corpora and language ], an Arts and Humanities Research Council Event 12-13 January 2006

Main Page

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=== The Digital Classicist Wiki and FAQ ===

All questions and answers on the Digital Classicist website will be submitted through the collaborative Wiki. Users may add questions directly to the Wikiï¿½although it would be a good idea (also) to raise your question on the discussion group for the attention of the community at large, who may not be daily visitors to the Wiki. Answers may likewise be posted directly to the Wiki, especially if they are detailed or of some length, although a note to the discussion group when something significant is posted would not go amiss. The Wiki may also be home to descriptions of projects, announcements of tools, summaries of discussions, or other items of interest to the community.

The main Digitalclassicist website is at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/

Tela Latina

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=== Tela Latina ===

No other site seems to exist yet for this project, so I am linking to Dr Siegel's presentation on the topic at http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics/tela_latina_presentation.htm. I cite from this text below:

=== Nature of the Project ===

to create a single, official (APA/ACL sanctioned and/or sponsored) "Latin on the Web" supersite in between two extremes: (a) a site built from scratch that would reinvent the wheel and (b) a gateway site to already existing sites that will go through a peer review process before being accepted. The site will be dedicated to presenting Latin materials useful to students using any textbook.

=== rationale for the Project ===

Certain needs exist and are not being met:

* guidance for those seeking reliable web resources for the study of Latin regardless of choice of text or level of study
* a guarantee of quality (accurate information and presentation and in many cases, programming)
* standards by which the effectiveness of such pages can be ascertained (tone, attitude, and programming issues)
* legitimizing the effort and achievement of teaching professionals who create pedagogical materials but are not rewarded for it under the current system
* expansion of the audience for author's worthwhile materials
* stability in an ever-changing world of links and affiliations (a reliable and up-to-date resource center)

=== Goals of the Project ===

# Design and build a common website under APA/ACL aegis that would attempt to provide the most comprehensive and authoritative help possible for teachers and students of all levels looking to start or continue Latin study.
# Index existing web-based resources for Latin teaching.
# Commission such pieces of the site as a managing committee determines to be necessary to fill gaps in currently available resources.
# Create a general (not text-specific) database from which all sorts of automated drills can be constructed.
# Provide a peer review process for Latin pedagogy websites that will provide a mechanism to help users (to distinguish the good from the bad from the ugly) as well as help legitimize the efforts of those writing the webpages ï¿½ a way to provide necessary evidence of excellence for tenure review boards. Peer review will also raise the bar in terms of quality of resources presented for review.

Latin Language in the Inscriptions from Roman Dacia (Beu-Dachin)

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=== The Latin Language in the Inscriptions from Roman Dacia ===

* Eugenia Beu-Dachin
* Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* and University of Bergen, Norway

The topic of my research is the linguistic study (phonetic, morphological, syntactical, lexical) of the approximately 4000 Latin inscriptions from the Roman province Dacia. Its aim is to contribute to a deeper understanding of how the Latin language evolved in this eastern province of the multilingual Roman Empire. In order to facilitate my work and to do it accurately, I started building a corpus of inscriptions, using computational methods for the purposes of encoding, concordancing, search and statistical analysis, and for deriving electronic editions of the corpus.

The inscriptions are encoded using TEI XML, and transformations are applied using XSL stylesheets to render full text editions at the different levels of coding. I used the standards which have been set out in ''The Menota handbook'' (Guidelines for the electronic encoding of Medieval Nordic primary sources), ed. Odd Einar Haugen (see: http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/menota/guidelines/index.html).

An Internet-based search interface developed by dr. Paul Meurer from Aksis (The Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology, University of Bergen), for Corpus Workbench at IMS, Stuttgart, is used for databank searching.

Each XML file consists in two parts: the header and the text. The information concerning each inscription (editor, publication, recording, bibliography, date, and so on) is included in the header. The <text> part of the XML file includes only the original Latin text. The Inscriptions were encoded on three different levels: facsimile (the text is represented exactly as it appears on the ancient material), diplomatic (this provides the version which is given by the editor of the text, abbreviations are expanded using special marks) and normalised (at this level, each word is represented in accordance with the grammatical rules, so the text corresponds to a literary version).

Based on this corpus, a concordance of words will be made in order to study the deviation between classical Latin and the Latin in the inscriptions, analyzing the peculiarities of the vulgar Latin.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

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=== Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) ===

URL: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

2 Description

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLGï¿½) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

Since 1985, the TLGï¿½ Digital Library has been disseminated in CD ROM format. The most recent edition (TLG E) was released in February 2000 with 76 million words of text.

In April 2001, the TLGï¿½ became available Online to subscribing institutions and individuals. The web version currently provides access to 3,700 authors and 12,000 works, approximately 91 million words. It is updated quarterly with new authors and works.

Information about the authors and works included in the TLG Library is stored in a database, known as the Canon of Greek Authors and Works. The full Canon is open to the public and can be searched on the TLG site.

Non-subscribers can access an abridged/trial version of the TLGï¿½ corpus (click on Try out the Online TLGï¿½). The abridged version has the same search capabilities as the full version but allows browsing and searching with a representative selection of texts.

(from the TLG website, 2005-07-25)

Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database (SAHD)

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=== Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database (SAHD) ===

URL: http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/CARTS/SAHD/default.html (Cambridge) http://www2.div.ed.ac.uk/research/sahd/ (Edinburgh)

=== Description ===

The Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database is an international, cooperative research project involving a growing number of centres with coordination provided by Leiden. The currently participating centres include the following universities: Azusa Pacific, Bonn, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Florence, Harvard, Oxford, Leiden, Leuven, Paris, Rome, and Sydney.

The project's aim is to store in a computerised form all the information that a scholar, translator, preacher or layperson could require about the meaning and interpretation of ancient Hebrew vocabulary. The data will be systematically arranged, evaluated by experts in the field, and encoded so as to make consultation and cross-referencing easy and maximally productive. Both the quantity of data included and the possibilities of comparison and cross-reference will go far beyond that which any standard Hebrew dictionary can offer; the contributions of modern linguistics and computer technology will be exploited to the full. Such information lies at the foundation of all good biblical scholarship, whether this takes the form of commentaries on the Bible, historical works or biblical theology.

Prosopography of the Byzantine World

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=== Prosopography of the Byzantine World ===

URL: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/PBE/

=== Description ===

The goal of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World Project, formerly known as the "Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire" (PBE), is to record in a computerised relational database all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine sources during the period from 641 to 1261, and every individual mentioned in non-Byzantine sources during the same period who is 'relevant' (on a generous interpretation) to Byzantine affairs. The project covers the period from 641 (the terminal date of Volume III of the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire) to 1261 (the commencement date of the Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit).

The six-hundred-year period is divided into three roughly equal sections: 641 to 867; 867 to 1025; and 1025 to 1261. The work of the project begins therefore when the Byzantines were struggling to cope with the Arab conquests in the Levant and the spread of Islam, and ends with the restoration of the Empire in 1261 after the loss of Constantinople to the crusaders and the period of exile in Nicaea.

PBW was established as a British Academy Research Project in 1989. The project is housed in the School of Humanities at King's College London and is based in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), which provides its technical support. It is funded by the AHRC and the British Academy. PBW works in collaboration with the Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie's Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PmbZ) and the Evergetis Project.

Philoponia

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=== The Philoponia Project ===

http://hierapolis.classics.cam.ac.uk/philoponiaPages/

=== What It Is ===

The Philoponia Project is a research group formed to investigate and develop the use of 'unseen translation' exercises in the teaching of the ancient languages. Ever since the birth of the modern discipline of Classics in the 19th century, fluency in unseen translation has been viewed as the standard of excellence to which all students of Ancient Greek and Latin should aspire. In recent years, however, the use of unseen translation exercises (more commonly, 'unseens') in both the teaching and testing of Classics students has been on the decline. The purpose of the Project has accordingly been both to determine the causes of this decline and to reintegrate 'unseens' into language learning as it is currently taught.

In July 2003 we released a report detailing the results of a survey and interviews carried out among Classics instructors at all levels. This report found that, while there was general agreement that the exercise of unseen translation was valuable to the development of students' language skills, few students possessed the linguistic background necessary to approach 'unseen' material anthologized for earlier generations. In addition, unseen translation exercises could be time-consuming to create, difficult to integrate into classroom practice, and hard to define in terms of learning outcomes.

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

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=== Lexicon of Greek Personal Names ===

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/

=== Purpose and Scope ===

to collect and publish with documentation all known ancient Greek personal names (including non-Greek names recorded in Greek, and Greek names in Latin), drawn from all available sources (literature, inscriptions, graffiti, papyri, coins, vases and other artefacts), within the period from the earliest Greek written records down to, approximately, the sixth century A.D.

The work thus starts with the period of epichoric scripts, embraces the classical and hellenistic periods of Greek history, following dialect and the development of koine, and continues through the period of the Roman Empire when Greek nomenclature underwent changes as a result of Roman rule, and religious, social and other factors.

Excluded names include mythological and heroic names, Mycenaean names, later Byzantine names and geographical names.

Diccionario Griego-Español

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=== Diccionario Griego-Espaï¿½ol (DGE) - Greek-Spanish Lexicon ===

URL: http://www.filol.csic.es/dge/

=== Description ===

To be provided.

Demetrios Database for Septuagint Greek

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=== Demetrios Database for Septuagint Greek ===

URL: http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/lxx/

=== Description ===

Part of the AHRB funded [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/lxx/index.htm The Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World] project, Demetrios is an online relational database focusing on over 400 political, legal and administrative words, in order to help evaluating the Greek Bible as a source for Jewish interpretation of the political, social and intellectual culture of the Hellenistic world (continuing into the early Roman Empire).

Cambridge Greek Lexicon Project

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=== Cambridge Greek Lexicon Project ===

URL: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/glp/

=== Description ===

The Faculty of Classics in Cambridge is currently supporting a project for an Ancient Greek-English Lexicon of intermediate size, suitable for students in their first years of reading Greek, but also taking account of the most recent lexicographical and philological information. The project has an agreement with the Perseus Project at Tufts University, to publish the lexicon online, in addition to the print edition from Cambridge University Press.

Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid

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=== Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid ===

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/analyticalonomasticon/

=== Description ===

The ''Analytical Onomasticon'' is a reference work to persons and places in the ''Metamorphoses'' of Ovid. It is intended to assist the study of a poem that has remained curiously intractable to the literary critical quest for its coherence. The problem has not been a want of schemes, but rather too many, or at least more than can be accounted for by any one reckoning. As Brooks Otis pointed out years ago, Ovid sports with the idea of continuity: at the same time, and often with the same device, both supporting and undermining it. The ''Onomasticon'' assumes no particular theory of how the poem is constructed, nor that it has a single construction. Yet it is based on the idea that Ovid's is a serious play, not meant to scatter our attention but to redirect it. This book is intended to assist that redirection by supplying several different means for commanding the most extensive and significant body of textual evidence for the interrelation of persons, hence the interconnection of stories: the words and phrases that refer to and so name them. The ''Onomasticon'' is not limited to the quest for continuity in change, but its explicit aim is to further understanding of the poem as a coherent or, more accurately, cohesible work of literature.

For these purposes "name" is defined broadly as any word, phrase or clause that refers to one or more persons or places, i.e. an "appellative" (''OED'' s.v. B). The design of the ''Onomasticon'' is based inductively on the particular characteristics of Ovidian appellatives and on the nature of the entities to which they refer. Names have great potential for the study of the ''Metamorphoses'' because they are neither verbal data nor narrative but metalinguistic creations that combine properties of both. On the one hand, because names are close to data, they can be treated consistently, by explicit rules, and thus are amenable to computational processing with important consequences I will explain below. On the other hand, because they invoke the stories in which they occur, names in turn bear relatively well-defined narrative meaning. Hence they are apt for modeling patterns of interconnection otherwise quite difficult or impossible to reach systematically.

=== Contact ===

[mailto:willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk]

Theatron

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=== Theatron ===

http://kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/theatron.html

http://www.theatron.org/

=== History ===

The THEATRON application has been produced by a European consortium including leading academic institutions, architectural and information technology specialists and part-funded by the European Commission. THEATRON represents the first serious attempt to bring the study of virtual reality computer models within the scope of a humanities subject.

The Primary objective was to carry out a carefully focused programme of work, addressing the use of multi-media for teaching European theatre history.

After gathering and closely evaluating examples of current needs and best practice in a variety of institutions engaged in the teaching of theatre, the consortium has created an online software application. This currently consists of 10 3D virtual architectural theatres from across Europe, with a user interface enabling students and teachers to access graphical and textual material, illustrating and exploring the history, evolution, variety and current range of theatrical practice in Europe.

Silchester Roman Town: A Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology

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=== Silchester Roman Town: A Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology ===

The aim of this project is to demonstrate new directions in which archaeology can be taken by employing collaborative distributed computing, or "e-Science".

The project will set up an online conference or seminar facility, provisionally entitled "Ogham" (Online Group Historical and Archaeological Matrix), which will provide the excavators with real-time access to experts in diffuse disciplines, irrespective of their geographical location. The iterative research process, and flow of ideas, will therefore be greatly enhanced.

For further information see the [http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk/vre project website]

Stone in Archaeology

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=== Stone in Archaeology: Towards a digital resource ===

http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/stone/stone.html

=== Introduction ===

The 'Stone in Archaeology' project has been funded by a three year Resource Enhancement Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board to create an electronic catalogue of all archaeological stone known to have been exploited in Antiquity throughout the British Isles.

=== Project Outline ===

This unique new multidisciplinary digital resource in the field of lithic archaeology will incorporate an interrogatory searchable relational database which will be regularly updated, dynamic and available on the Internet via the Archaeology Data Service. The resource will be easy to use (being accessible to beginner/amateur or specialist alike) and will help to identify a rock sample, its geological formation and possible quarry location or vicinity by asking specific macroscopic and mineralogical questions. Visual images (including macroscopic and petrological photomicrographs) will supplement the rock descriptions and will be available for comparison. Furthermore, it is hoped that this resource will be manipulated in many different ways and answer specific questions about trade and exchange, movement of materials and distribution of stone by incorporating GIS into the database.

By creating this resource, it is hoped that it will improve the breadth and depth of archaeological knowledge in the field of lithics and beyond.

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Theatre of Pompey

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=== The Pompey Project ===

http://www.pompey.cch.kcl.ac.uk/

=== Summary ===

The King's Visualisation Lab team has created a series of 3D reconstructions based on previously known scholarly studies of the theatre. The nineteenth-century architect, Luigi Canina, created a series of hypothetical plans and artistic impressions based on his own investigation of the theatre structure.

The team has created an accurate 3D reconstruction based on Canina's plans and has also generated a detailed, real-time navigable version of the model.

Musée Achéménide

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=== Achemenet ===

http://www.achemenet.com/

=== Description ===

(A venir)

Vindolanda Tablets Online

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=== Vindolanda Tablets Online ===

URL: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

=== Description ===

This online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England, includes the following elements:

* Tablets - a searchable online edition of the tablets (volumes I and II)
* Exhibition - an introduction to the tablets and their context
* Reference - a guide to aspects of the tabletsï¿½ content
* Help - navigation and using the site

Also available are highlights from the tablets.

The website is part of the Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World programme, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is a collaborative project between the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and the Academic Computing Development Team, Oxford University.

Scholarly publications should refer to this site as:

Vindolanda Tablets Online http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

Feedback: if you are using Vindolanda Tablets Online for teaching, research or general interest, please send us your comments on the site.

Suda Online

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=== Suda Online (SOL) ===

http://www.stoa.org/sol/

=== Description ===

Certain fundamental sources for the study of the ancient world are currently accessible only to a few specially trained researchers because they have never been provided with a sufficiently convenient interpretive apparatus or, in some cases, even translated into modern languages. The Suda On Line project attacks that inaccessibility by engaging the efforts of scholars world-wide in the translation and annotation of a substantial text that is being made available exclusively through the internet. We have chosen to begin with the Byzantine encyclopedia known as the Suda, a 10th century CE compilation of material on ancient literature, history, and biography. A massive work of about 30,000 entries, and written in sometimes dense Byzantine Greek prose, the Suda is an invaluable source for many details that would otherwise be unknown to us about Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as an important text for the study of Byzantine intellectual history.

Begun in January of 1998, the Suda On Line (SOL) already involves the efforts of over one hundred scholars throughout the world. The goal of the project is to assemble an xml-encoded database, searchable and browsable on the web, with continuously improved annotations, bibliographies and hypertextual links to other electronic resources in addition to the core translation of entries in the Suda. Individual work becomes available on the web as soon as possible, with the minimum necessary initial proofreading and editorial oversight. A large pool of registered editors is empowered to alter and improve the materials in the database continuously as they see fit. The display of each entry includes an indication of the level of editorial scrutiny it has received. We mean to encourage the greatest possible participation in the project and the smallest possible delay in presenting a high quality resource to a wide public readership.

Our goal is not only to provide the SOL as a useful tool for researchers, but also to explore and facilitate the modes of scholarship now made possible by open source technology and the internet: the result will be a scholarly effort that is cooperative rather than solitary, communal rather than proprietary, worldwide rather than localized, evolving rather than static. Accordingly our work aims at two concrete results: in addition to our development of the Suda On Line itself as a respectable scholarly resource, we want to make a generalized, well-documented version of our software freely available for other collaboration-minded scholars to adapt for their own purposes.

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Perseus Digital Library

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=== The Perseus Digital Library ===

URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Mirrors: [http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ Berlin], [http://perseus.uchicago.edu/ Chicago]

=== Desciption ===

Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.

(from the Perseus site, 2005-07-25)

POxy Oxyrhynchus Online

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=== Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project (POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online) ===

URL: http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/

=== Description ===

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project is putting online the corpus of papyri excavated from Oxyrhynchus (Al-Bashnasa in Egypt) by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt from 1897. The Project has an online table of contents for volumes 1-70 of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. The table of contents can be navigated by volume number or papyrus number. Digital images of the papyri are currently available from volume 47 onwards. Images are available as 150 dpi resolution for all online papyri with an increasing number also available with a resolution of 300 dpi. Each papyrus record includes location information, editorial details, and notes. The Project's Web site also includes an introduction to Oxyrhynchus and the excavations; details of how the papyri were digitized; and the online version of the exhibition, 'Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts' (Ashmolean, 1998).

(source: [http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=1023 Humbul Humanities Hub])

Opentext

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=== OpenText.org ===

URL: [http://www.opentext.org/ http://www.opentext.org]

=== Description ===

The OpenText.org project is a web-based initiative to develop annotated Greek texts and tools for their analysis. The project aims both to serve, and to collaborate with, the scholarly community. Texts are annotated with various levels of linguistic information, such as text-critical, grammatical, semantic and discourse features.

Beginning with the New Testament, the project aims to construct a representative corpus of Hellenistic Greek to facilitate linguistic and literary research of these important documents. These texts are then annotated through the addition of linguistic and literary features (including marking morphological, syntactical and discourse elements) following a comprehensive model currently under development. The resulting texts can be viewed and searched on this site. It is hoped that interested users will collaborate in the correction and enhancement of this annotation, and become involved in the annotation process themselves.

The key features of the project are:

* texts annotated at distinct linguistic levels
* the use of an XML encoding scheme to mark-up texts
* an 'open' and collaborative approach to encourage the annotation and use of texts
* an on-line tool kit to allow searching and analysis of texts
* a forum to allow the exchange of ideas and to respond to requests for specific searches

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Online Critical Pseudepigrapha

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=== The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha ===

URL: http://www.uwo.ca/kings/ocp/

=== Description ===

For some time it has been evident that scholars of early Judaism and early Christianity need better access to the texts of the Pseudepigrapha in their original (or extant) languages and with a critical apparatus. In many cases critical editions are prohibitively expensive or out of print, and scholars without access to a large library have been hard pressed to find them.

The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha is intended to address the problem of difficult to access Pseudepigrapha by publishing on-line, free-access critical texts of the Pseudepigrapha which are up-to-date and academically rigorous. This aim is to be realized by

# co-ordinating the efforts of scholars who take on the editing of individual texts;
# providing a forum for peer review of texts as they are developed;
# developing the technology necessary for the publication of these texts in electronic form; and
# providing a permanent web-site for the long-term publication of these texts and as a forum for ongoing text-critical work on the pseudepigrapha.

The project is sponsored by and hosted at [http://www.uwo.ca/kings/ King's University College], University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece

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=== The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece ===

* 2004-2007
* A research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust
* Director: Professor A.H. Sommerstein

The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across an enormously wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, its binding force one of the most important contributions of religion to social stability and harmony. For this reason, oaths are uttered, prescribed, or referred to in almost every kind of literary or inscriptional text we have from archaic and classical Greece, and a comprehensive study of the subject requires a survey covering all these texts.

The project team for "The Oath in Classical Greece" consists of Professor Sommerstein and two research fellows, Dr Andrew Bayliss and Dr Isabelle Torrance, appointed for a three-year term commencing in September 2004.

The objectives of the project are:

* To create a database including all references to oaths in Greek texts of all kinds from the archaic and classical periods (i.e. down to 322 BC); when complete, the database would be made publicly available via the internet.
* To analyse and interpret this evidence, in stages as it is collected, and present the results in seminar and conference papers, in articles and eventually in a co-authored monograph on the nature, employment and functions of oaths in archaic and classical Greek societies.

The cutoff date of 322 BC (coinciding with the death of Aristotle, the last writings of the Attic orators, and the end of the classical Athenian democracy) was chosen because at about that date there are fundamental changes in the geographical extent of the Greek-speaking world, its ethnic and cultural composition, its political organization and the nature of the available evidence.

There has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the oath in ancient Greek society since Rudolf Hirzel's Der Eid (1902), and during the century since then much new evidence has become available and the study of society, ancient and modern, has been revolutionized. Information technology has now made it possible to carry out a complete survey of the evidence far faster and more efficiently than had previously been practicable, and the project is therefore centred on the creation of an electronic database, which will greatly ease the identification of significant correlations, variations and developments, and can be expected to illuminate such significant issues as the following:

* Which ancient Greek social institutions were typically thought to require oaths (with or without additional sanctions) to ensure their proper functioning, and which were not?
* To what extent did oath practices vary with time or place within the Greek world?
* To what extent did oath practices, and the persuasive effect of an oath, vary according to the gender and/or status (e.g. citizen/foreigner, free/slave) of the swearer?
* Did the oath practices of the imaginary worlds created by poets differ from those of the world in which they and their audiences actually lived?
* Is there any evidence that might indicate whether, from the mid/ late fifth century BC, when traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being widely contested in intellectual circles, oaths came to be regarded as less securely reliable than formerly?
* To what extent were the brief oath-like expressions common in conversation (usually translatable as "yes/no, by [name of god]") regarded as having the binding force of a true oath?

The database will be founded on a corpus comprising all texts in Greek, whether inscriptional or literary, that were certainly or probably written between the introduction of alphabetic writing and 322 BC. All references (explicit or by necessary implication) to oaths and swearing will be identified, and for each such reference a record will be created. Where the reference is to an oath taken, tendered or offered on a specific occasion, or prescribed to be taken or tendered under specific circumstances, the record will comprise the following fields:

* source reference
* category (literary, subliterary or inscriptional)
* subcategory (genre of literature, type of inscription, etc.)
* date of source
* provenance of source (if literary, this means domicile of author)
* whether oath is set in a historical or a fictitious context
* date or occasion of oath (if the passage refers to a single occasion)
* circumstances in which oath taken/tendered (if it was prescribed in those circumstances by law or custom)
* place
* person or authority proposing oath
* person(s) taking, or asked to take, oath
* (if oath was volunteered by swearer) person to whom addressed ("swearee")
* what the swearer was asked, or offered, to affirm or promise
* god(s) or other powers invoked
* linguistic formula marking utterance as oath
* consequences (if any) attached to taking oath
* consequences (if any) attached to refusal to take oath
* rewards specified for keeping oath
* punishments specified for breaking oath
* special sanctifying circumstances (location, sacrifice, etc.)
* (if referring to a single occasion) whether oath was taken or refused
* (if referring to a single occasion) effect of oath on behaviour or attitudes of others
* (if referring to a single occasion) whether oath was kept or (disputably or indisputably) broken
* (if oath broken) recorded consequences, if any
* further remarks

There will be an annex to the database consisting of retrospective passages in sources later than 322 BC referring to oaths taken before that date; many of these statements are undoubtedly derived from pre-322 texts, and some are of high importance, but they must be kept separate from the main database because the risk cannot be excluded that they may be, as it were, contaminated by the cultural milieu of the later author.

The database, which will be an Access or MySQL relational database, will be created by the University of Nottingham's R&NT (Research and New Technologies) Database Team with the assistance of the University's Humanities Technology Officer, who will also provide the project team with any training they may need to use the database, as well as monitoring and managing its development over the course of the project.

The database will be created in stages, according to type of source, the staging being so planned that well-defined bodies of evidence would become available for analysis and interpretation fairly early in the process. Thereafter analytical and interpretative work will proceed alongside the expansion of the database.

Once fully populated with data, the database will be provided with an interface, including URL, HTML code and PHP scripts, that will allow it to be made accessible and effectively searchable via the internet. The resulting website will be hosted by the University of Nottingham, and deposit with the Arts and Humanities Data Service will be negotiated also. This final stage in the development of the database will not only make it available to the wider scholarly community but will also greatly facilitate the process of analysis and interpretation in the later stages of the project.

Next to the database itself, the most important outcome of the project will be a monograph, co-authored by Professor Sommerstein and the two research fellows, on the oath in archaic and classical Greek society. This will probably consist of three main parts, Part I discussing the nature and functions of oaths in the Greek world in general terms, Part II their specific uses within polis communities and in inter-state relations, Part III their exploitation in key genres of creative literature. It is hoped that a provisional version of Parts II and III will be complete by the end of the project period, but much of the writing of Part I and revision of the remainder would need to be done after the end of the period, with a target completion date of 2009.

Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections

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=== Leuven Homepage of Papyrus Collections ===

URL: http://lhpc.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/

=== Description ===

Leuven Database of Ancient Books

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=== Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) ===

URL: http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/

=== Description ===

LDAB attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient literary texts, as opposed to documents. The user can find the oldest preserved copies of each text as well as a view of the reception of ancient literature throughout the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine period.

LDAB is a FileMaker 5.5 database, running on a Mac OS X 10.2 platform.

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg

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=== Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (EDH) ===

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/index.html

Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Gï¿½za Alfï¿½ldy

=== Concept ===

(from the EDH web-site)

The aim of the project Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) is to integrate Latin inscriptions from all parts of the Roman Empire into an extensive database. Since 2004 Greek inscriptions from the same chronological timespan are also being entered. It consists of three databases the Epigraphic database, the Epigraphic Bibliography and the Photographic Database. It exists at an international level alongside other database projects, which serve as a working tool for the swift and simple collection, viewing, supplementing and interdisciplinary analysis of epigraphic material. Furthermore it is possible to the create KWIC indices and to combine the stored information as freely as possible

At present, the Epigraphic database contains over 36.000 inscriptions and thus includes most of the especially noteworthy inscriptions published outside the main editions. In contrast to similar projects, the database presents revised and often corrected versions. Control of this sort is above all necessary in the case of earlier publications, which do not fulfill the standards of modern textual editorial practice. Moreover, the database is not confined to the mere texts, but links them to all the available bibliographical data and information on the inscriptions proper and on the monuments or objects they are inscribed upon. Time-consuming though it is, by means of this method of working the database meets high scholarly demands.

Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss-Slaby

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=== Epigraphische Datenbank Frankfurt (EDF) ===

http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~clauss/index-e.html

Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Gï¿½za Alfï¿½ldy

=== Description ===

The EDF is a data bank working on compiling all inscriptions in Latin, whereby the texts included herein are both supplemented and completed.

The presentation of the texts has been made as simple as possible. Beside the usual information concerning supplementations, completions and omissions the number of special characters has been reduced to a minimum. The abbreviations for the publications used also show the links to other epigraphical databases. The key statistics contain the information on which volumes - and how many texts contained therein, concerning the Latin inscriptions - have been completely registered and included into the database.

So far 332.250 entries from more than 560 different publications and more than 16.000 places have been included.

(from the EDF web-site, 2005-07-25)

EpiDoc

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=== Epidoc ===

URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/telliott/epidoc/

The EpiDoc (Epigraphic Documents) Collaborative is an international community of scholars working with texts in ancient Greek and Latin inscribed on durable materials (principally stone), convened by Tom Elliott of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. EpiDoc is a collection of recommendations for the encoding of inscriptions in XML, many of the issues surrounding which are equally relevant to scholars working with other ancient and medieval texts. The EpiDoc DTD is a subset of the TEI (currently P4).

The EpiDoc Guidelines are a detailed collection of suggested conventions for encoding the Lejden-style epigraphic transcription style in XML, currently adminsitered via a wiki at http://epidoc.xwiki.org/. The [http://sourceforge.net/projects/epidoc/ EpiDoc SourceForge site] also allows users to download: DTD and TEI modification files; stable builds of the Guidelines (word or PDF format); software and other tools created by members of the collaborative for editing, manipulating, or processing texts.

Electronic Boethius

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=== Electronic Boethius ===

http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm

=== Project Description ===

The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, the sixth-century Roman philosopher, poet, and statesman who reconciled himself with the seeming unfairness of life while awaiting execution on false charges of treason, was a powerful text throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It was especially respected in England, where it was repeatedly translated and otherwise transformed into English, starting with none other than Alfred the Great in the ninth century, and including (among others) Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, and even Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth. It is not an exaggeration to claim, as many scholars have done, that one cannot understand much of the literature of the Middle Ages without a knowledge of the Consolation.

Alfred the Great, who ruled Anglo-Saxon England from 871-899, chose the Consolation as one of the cornerstones of his educational reform, which entailed the translation of important Latin texts into the native language of his realm. His translation is not word for word, and often not even sense for sense, because his motivation was not an academic exercise. For Alfred the Consolation was a way to help his secular and spiritual leaders contemplate the most enduring intellectual issues - the problem of evil in a world made and governed by God, the apparent contradictions of manï¿½s free will and Godï¿½s foreknowledge, the role of Fortune in the fall of good and the rise of wicked men.

The primary source is the tenth-century British Library MS, Cotton Otho A. vi, the only surviving copy of the prose and verse translation, a manuscript severely damaged in the same disastrous fire in 1731 that burned nearly 2000 letters from the edges of the Beowulf manuscript. Two other manuscripts are indispensable for restoring sections of Cotton Otho A. vi that were damaged or destroyed in the fire. A twelfth-century version all in prose is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 180, and is the source for restoring any lost or damaged prose sections. A seventeenth-century copy of it in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 12, by Francis Junius, is even more valuable, because Junius fortunately collated it with Otho A. vi before the fire and fully transcribed all of the poetic sections, many of which were severely damaged or totally destroyed in 1731. Thanks to Malcolm Godden, who is directing a complementary print-based project, The Alfredian Boethius Project: Anglo-Saxon adaptations of the De Consolatione Philosophiae, digital images of both Oxford Bodleian manuscripts will be included in the image-based electronic edition.

An image-based electronic edition of these manuscript resources and the modern editions that evolved from them will provide students of cultural studies a compelling view of how the Anglo-Saxons represented their most important philosophical and theological texts, and of how nineteenth- and twentieth-century editorial tradition has sometimes misrepresented them. Image-based electronic editions have the effect of visually reversing editorial tradition, by forcing readers to see what modern editors have put into and taken away from these cultural documents. It is this stunning recognition that drives the current interest in manuscript studies, and electronic editions make it possible to disseminate far and wide these revealing insights that once were the exclusive province of solitary scholars.

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

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=== Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) ===

The EAGLE initiative is the brainchild of Professor Silvio Paniera (Rome), under the Patronage of AIEGL (Association Internationale d'ï¿½pigraphie Grecque et Latine). The EAGLE database will contain text and basic metadata on all published insciptions in Greek and Latin searchable from a single front end.

EAGLE is formed of a federation of three major epigraphic projects: the [EDH.html Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg] (EDH), the [http://www.edr-edr.it/ Epigraphic Database Roma] (EDR), and the [http://www.edb.uniba.it/ Epigraphic Database Bari] (EDB), which currently take responsibility for Western, Italian, and Christian inscriptions respectively. All of these databases conform to the minimum requirements of the EAGLE system, although EDH in particular has many more fields of metadata in addition.

Digital Nestle-Aland Prototype

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=== Digital Nestle-Aland Prototype ===

URL: http://nestlealand.uni-muenster.de/

=== Description ===

The Digital Nestle-Aland is the electronic form of the standard scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament. It offers two major features not available in the printed book:

* Transcripts of important Greek manuscripts of the New Testament
* New complete apparatus based on these transcripts

The Digital Nestle-Aland is a project of the [http://www.uni-muenster.de/NTTextforschung/ Institute for New Testament Textual Research] at the University of Mï¿½nster, Westphalia, Germany. It is being prepared in collaboration with [http://www.sd-editions.com/ Scholarly Digital Editions] (Leicester, UK) and the [http://www.dbg.de/ Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft] (Stuttgart, Germany). It is funded in part by the [http://www.dfg.de/ Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft] (Bonn, Germany).

Curse Tablets from Roman Britain

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=== Curse Tablets from Roman Britain ===

An electronic publication of the texts and archaeological context of inscribed lead tablets from Roman Britain, carried out by the [http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/ Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents], Oxford.

http://curses.csad.ox.ac.uk/

=== Introduction ===

(from http://curses.csad.ox.ac.uk/beginners/intro-britain.shtml)

Of the provinces of the former Roman empire, Britain is among the most fertile in curse tablets. At least 250 of the known 500+ Latin tablets have been found in Britain and more continue to be recovered. The two most important groups are the 100+ recovered in the sacred spring at Bath and the 87 documented from the rural shrine of Uley, Gloucestershire (see Uley introduction). From such substantial groups of documents, written or at least deposited in the same place, we can recover much information about the traditions of writing curse tablets (see Creating the curse - writing the curse), the rituals that accompanied the inscribing of curses and the context in which people thought it appropriate to create their curses, potentially a stigmatised activity because of its magical associations (see People, goods and gods - the workings of magic).

The majority of tablets have come to light in southern Britain around the Severn estuary, but they have also been found in London and Kent, on the Hamble estuary in Hampshire to the south and in the east Midlands and East Anglia. They have been found in towns with cosmopolitan populations, for example London and Bath, and at remote shrines, for example Brean Down, perched on a peninsula projecting into the Bristol Channel (see Brean Down introduction). To judge from the dating evidence of their scripts (see Curses and cursive - scripts), tablets were written throughout the period of the Roman presence in Britain, but the predominance of ï¿½Old Roman Cursiveï¿½ among the dated tablets suggest a peak in the second and third centuries AD.

The distribution of curse tablets is very different from that of other written documents in Britain. Stone inscriptions are mostly found at places associated with the Roman army, especially garrisons of forts and fortresses on Britainï¿½s northern frontier. Most wooden writing tablets too have been found during excavations of military sites, especially Vindolanda and Carlisle, as well as from London. Curse tablets by contrast are a precious source of evidence for the words and wishes of the town and country people of Roman Britain, albeit expressed in a very particular form. To judge from the names of those who commissioned or wrote them and the items that they seek to recover, the authors of curses are of relatively modest status (see People, goods and gods - victims and wrongdoers).

Eichstaett Concordance of Greek and Latin inscriptions (ConcEyst)

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=== ConcEyst - The Eichstï¿½tt Concordance of Greek and Latin inscriptions ===

URL: http://www.ku-eichstaett.de/Fakultaeten/GGF/fachgebiete/Geschichte/Alte%20Geschichte/Projekte/conceyst

=== Description ===

Originating from a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft sponsored project on the inscriptions ofr Pontus-Bithynia, ConcEyst offers now one of largest epigraphic databases of Greek and Lating inscriptions, which is constantly updated. It also offers a search interface in concordance format that can be, together with the database, downloaded free of charge. The database project has recently started to cooperate with the [EAGLE.html Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)] project via the Epigraphischen Datenbank Heidelberg.

Claros Concordance of Greek Inscriptions

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=== Claros: Concordance of Greek Inscriptions ===

http://www.dge.filol.csic.es/claros/cnc/2cnc.htm

=== Presentation ===

Researchers working in Greek epigraphy know how laborious can be sometimes the location of the bibliography generated by an inscription or a series of inscriptions throughout the years. The purpose of the data base CLAROS is to make easier the task of locating new editions of Greek inscriptions appeared all along the last hundred years. It is designed to help the epigraphists, but particularly, we think, the non specialists (historians, linguists, philologists, etc.), less acquainted than those to find their paths in the bibliographical jungle into which this discipline has turned.

Chicago Homer

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=== Chicago Homer ===

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer/

* Ahuvia Kahane and Martin Mueller, editors
* Craig Berry and Bill Parod, technical editors

The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. In addition to all the texts of ancient Greek epic in the original Greek the Chicago Homer includes English and German translations, in particular Lattimore's translation of the Iliad, Daryl Hine's translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss. Through the associated web site Eumaios users of the Chicago Homer can also from each line of the poem access pertinent Iliad Scholia and papyrus readings

Album of scribes of Greek manuscripts in Spain

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=== ï¿½lbum de copistas de manuscritos griegos en Espaï¿½a - Album of scribes of Greek manuscripts in Spain ===

URL: http://copistas.delendis.com/index.html

=== Description ===

The project by the Seminario para el estudio de los manuscritos griegos en Espaï¿½a (SEMGE) at the Department of Greek Philology and Indoeuropean Linguistics of the Complutense University, Madrid, offers high resolution samples for identified scribes of Greek manuscripts in Spain. This collection is intended as a resource for palaegraphers, codicologists, and text critics, as well as an aid to identify scribes of insigned Greek manuscripts.

Digiclass:Members

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=== Editors ===

All are welcome to join the Digitalclasicist Wiki as editors and help us build the FAQ and other documents. Select the 'register' button above to sign up.

=== Administrators ===

The following are the administrators of this Wiki space: contact any of the below to have your membership confirmed.

* [http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/department.html#gb Gabriel Bodard]
* [http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/network/stuart.html Stuart Dunn]
* [http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/department.html#jg Juan Garcï¿½s]
* [http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/department.html#sm Simon Mahony]
* [http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/tmp/department.html#ap Artemis Papakostouli]

=== Full Digitalclassicist Community ===

A list of the full membership of the Digitalclassicist community, both the Editorial Panel and the Advisory Board, can be found on the main website at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/members/

=== Partner Institutions ===

The Digitalclassicist is proud to list among its partner institutions the following bodies:

* Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO)
* Ancient World Mapping Center, Chapel Hill?]
* Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
* Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC
* Centre for the Study of Ancient Texts, Oxford
* [[dm|Digital Medievalist]]
* Humanist
* [[iath|Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Virginia (IATH)]]
* [[ahrcict ICT in Arts and Humanities Research]]
* Stoa Consortium, University of Kentucky

Kalos

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=== Kalos - a conjugation tool for ancient Greek ===

http://www.classicgreek.net/

Originally a freeware Greek verb conjugator, Kalos now also handles substantives and is a commercial product, retailing at $40. See the website for a full description.

Find Glyph

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=== Find Glyph ===

[http://www.nzetc.org/downloads/find-glyph.zip http://www.nzetc.org/downloads/find-glyph.zip]

A simple but very useful tool created by Conal Tuohy that enables a Windows user to search for a Unicode character by typing in the codepoint, and returns a list of all the installed fonts on the system that provide a glyph for that character.

Edition Production Technology

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=== Electronic Production Technology (EPT) ===

=== Download ===

http://rch01.rch.uky.edu/~ept/download/

=== Description ===

(adapted from Dot Porter @ [http://listserv.uleth.ca/pipermail/dm-l/2005-June/000469.html DM-L Archives])

The EPT (Edition Production Technology) is designed, as James says below, as "a tool for assisting less-technical resource creators to develop more sophisticated electronic editions." It is designed and developed through the Electronic Boethius and ARCHway Projects (both with PI Kevin Kiernan) at the University of Kentucky.

The EPT enables an editor to:

1) Create a project by importing digital images, transcript (which can be a pre-existing XML document, or a text document with no markup), and a DTD or set of DTDs. (Details on what I mean by "set of DTDs" - not TEI tagsets! - can be found by following the tutorial links on the demo site).

2) Insert markup into this project through user-friendly, completely configurable markup templates. In the EPT the editor views text & image side-by-side, and the markup software includes functionality for connecting pieces of text with the corresponding image sections.

3) The full version of EPT includes additional tools for more advanced editing - collation (tools for both types - comparing versions of the same text, and describing the structure of the physical object), statistical analysis, paleographic description, glossary development.

Diogenes

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=== Diogenes ===

=== Download ===

http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/index.php

=== Description ===

Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the [http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ Thesaurus Linguae Graecae] and the [http://www.packhum.org/ Packard Humanities Institute]. It is free software: you are encouraged to modify, improve, and redistribute it under the terms of the [http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/license.php GNU General Public license].

The goal of this software package is to provide a free, transparent and flexible interface to the classical databases on CD-Rom in the PHI format, which include the TLG, the PHI corpus of Latin texts up to AD 200, the Duke Documentary Papyri collection, and the PHI-sponsored corpora of ancient inscriptions.

* Good news for Mac users. The latest version of Diogenes should be much, much easier to install (if you are running version 10.3 or higher of OS X).

Canonical Text Services

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=== The Classical Text Services Protocol ===

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

=== Description ===

The 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.

Chapel Hill Electronic Text Converter

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=== CHET-C: The Chapel Hill Electronic Text Converter ===

=== Downloads ===

* chet-c-java: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60289&package_id=149490 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60289&package_id=149490]

=== Description ===

Developed by Hugh Cayless and Tom Elliott (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Converts epigraphic texts using conventional editorial sigla into EpiDoc-compliant XML. CHET-C Java exists in both Mac and Win versions (with slightly different handling of file paths). This project is still in development, and should be considered unsupported and unstable.

=== Previous versions ===

* chet-c-windows: [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60289&package_id=62190 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60289&package_id=62190]

An older version of the CHET-C tool, now deprecated, written using VBA rather than Java, and running within the MS Access environment, is still available. If you have an old or slow machine which has trouble running Java applications, you may still find this useful.