[B-Greek] Fwd: New version of Perseus Greek Texts under PhiloLogic
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 8 06:04:16 EDT 2008
I think this announcement from Helma Dik of the University of Chicago
new implementation of the Perseus Greek texts (PhiloLogic) is worth
calling to the attention of B-Greekers. This announcement appearedon
the Classics-L list.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group
> [mailto:CLASSICS-L at LSV.UKY.EDU] On Behalf Of Helma Dik
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:15 PM
> To: CLASSICS-L at LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: [CLASSICS-L] New version of Perseus Greek Texts under
> PhiloLogic
>
> Dear all,
> -with apologies for cross-posting-
> I announce with great pleasure that a new release of the Perseus
> Greek Texts
> under PhiloLogic is now up at the same address as the old one:
>
> http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/
> Click "Search the Greek Texts and Translations"
>
> Greek texts specifically available through the search form at
> http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PERSEUS/perseusgreek.whizbang.form.html
>
> Googling "Perseus under Philologic" will get you to the site easily.
>
> This implementation of Perseus under PhiloLogic has been worked on by
> Charles Cooney of the ARTFL project, and since the summer of 2007, by
> Richard Whaling, classicist and computer scientist all-in-one. Work
> was
> sponsored in part by the Perseus Project, for whose support we are
> very
> grateful.
>
> Besides the built-in possibilities in PhiloLogic of KWIC concordances,
> frequencies, and collocation data, among others, of special interest
> in this
> current release are:
>
> -navigation and search results better reflect expectations of
> classicists
> (standard citations, which are also browsable).
> -Note however that line numbers in search results for poetry refer
> to the
> closest preceding 'milestone' -not the exact line.
> -morphological/lexical information directly from a Chicago server, by
> selecting a word and hitting d on your keyboard.
> -limiting searches in Greek texts of tragedy and comedy to the text of
> individual characters. (Find me all instances where Ismene uses Greek
> _men_)
>
> It should be clear that there is both significant overlap with
> capabilities
> at Perseus, but also significant differences. This is made possible
> by the
> fact that the Perseus Project uses a Creative Commons License for
> its texts
> and thereby allows its significant investment in text encoding to be
> seen in
> places far beyond its own site, not restricted to its own set of
> reading and
> analysis tools. I look forward to further cooperative projects.
>
> Comments welcome! Please use the "Report a Problem" link to notify
> us of
> anything from textual errors to bugs in the system. In periodic (not
> instantaneous!) updates, we will try to address as many of these as
> possible.
>
> Enjoy! Latin to follow.
>
> With best wishes,
> Helma Dik
>
> Helma Dik
> Dept. of Classics
> University of Chicago
> http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classics
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