Subject Guides: Classics: Repositories & Networks

Textual Data Repositories

For more information see “Classics, ‘Digital Classics’ and Issues for Data Curation” by Alison Babeu
Classics Librarians' Forum (see Digital Humanities)
Digital Classicist Wiki
Tesserae: intertextual parallels
Digital Hammurabi (Cuneiform texts)
TextGrid Project and tools for a digital ecosystem. Since 2006.
ORACC - Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
Manuscriptorium: Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage The goal of the Manuscriptorium project is to create virtual research access to all digital documents related to historical book resources up to the year 1800. Content includes: manuscripts, incunabula, early print books, maps, deeds, charters and more.
Open Greek and Latin Project The ultimate goal is to represent every source text produced in Classical Greek or Latin from antiquity through the present, including texts preserved in manuscript tradition as well as on inscriptions, papyri, ostraca and other written artifacts. Over the course of the next five years, we will focus upon converting as much Greek and Latin, available as scanned printed books, into an open, dynamic corpus, continuously augmented and improved by a combination of automated processes and human contributions of many kinds. The focus upon Greek and Latin reflects both the belief that we have an obligation to disseminate European cultural heritage and the observation that recent advances in OCR technology for Greek and Latin make these intertwined languages ready for large-scale work. The Open Greek and Latin Project aims at providing at least one version for all Greek and Latin sources produced during antiquity (through c. 600 CE) and a growing collection from the vast body of post-classical Greek and Latin that still survives. Perhaps 150 million words of Greek and Latin, preserved in manuscripts, on stone, on papyrus or other writing surface, survive from antiquity. Analysis of 10,000 books in Latin, downloaded from Archive.org, identified more than 200 million words of post-classical Latin. With 70,000 public domain books listed in the Hathi Trust as being in Ancient Greek or Latin, the amount of Greek and Latin already available will almost certainly exceed 1 billion words. Where existing corpora of Greek and Latin have generally included one edition of a work, Open Greek and Latin Corpus is designed to manage multiple versions of, and to represent the complete textual history of, a work: every manuscript, every papyrus fragment, and every printed edition are all versions within the history of a text. In the short run, this involves using OCR-technology optimized for Classical Greek and Latin to create an open corpus that is reasonably comprehensive for the c. 100 million words produced through c. 600 CE and that begins to make available the billions of words produced after 600 CE in Greek and Latin that survive.
Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies: Data and Relations in Greco-Roman Names SNAP:DRGN is building a virtual authority list for ancient people through Linked Data collection of common information from many collaborating projects. The graph will provide: 1. identifiers for all persons who appear in one or more corpora and catalogues; 2. gold standard normalization data for parsing and proofing tools; 3. visualization of ancient persons, names, titles and relationships; 4. research tools for historians; 5. standards and software contributing to the Linked Ancient World Data community.
Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
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A subset of the Monastic Manuscript Project
Urbis Library Network The URBiS Library Network unites the collections and provides updated holdings information for numerous foreign Academies and Roman research institutions.

Classics Networks

Tufts Digital Classics Club The Digital Classics Club is the first attempt of establishing an active student community focusing on creating real digital editions of classical texts with high level open source tools.