Perseus Digital Library

Digital Classists and NEW plan for Perseus Digital Library

The Next Generation of the Digital Classics Collaboration: Perseus Project’s New Plan                      by Jong Hwan Lee (PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Woodruff Fellow, Emory Libraries)

On March 20, Perseus Digital Library, which assembles digital collections of Greek and Roman resourses, announced plans to promote online collaboration.

Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of the TEI XML texts that it hosts. Ultimately this will include every textual object in Perseus, allowing individuals to modify (where rights allow), and to create new, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, translations, commentaries, introductions, as well as machine actionable annotations such as identifications of people and places and the morpho-syntactic analyses in the Greek and Latin Treebanks. 

See demo videos for editing, reviewing, and creation of new translations below.

It is hard to tell from the prototype youtube clips what the actual and final outlook of this change would be like. But I think there are lots of potential for this new plan.

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