Harvard Library commits $50,000 to complete The First Thousand Years of
Greek segment of the Open Greek and Latin Project
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Posted: 31 Mar 2016 07:06 AM PDT
Harvard Library commits $50,000 to complete The First Thousand Years of
Greek segment of the Open Greek and Latin Project
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March 31, 2016 Posted by Rhea Lesage under News
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For the past two years, the Open Greek and Latin Project
<http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/projects/open-greek-and-latin-project/> team
in Leipzig has been collecting scanned editions of classical texts and
running optical character recognition (OCR) optimized for Greek and Latin
in an effort to build the largest and most comprehensive open-source
library of classical philology to date. The Harvard Library has committed
$50,000, using generous funding from Arcadia, to complete The First
Thousand Years of Greek segment of the Open Greek and Latin Project. The
First Thousand Years of Greek aims to serve as a prototype of the larger
project and will permit researchers to freely search and access a digital
corpus of Ancient Greek and download, modify and redistribute their textual
data so they can fully exploit new methods of analysis. Harvard’s support
will cover the raw data entry costs of corrected OCR and Text Encoding
Initiative Extensible Markup Language (TEI XML) to help complete the list
of standard Greek editions. Harvard College Library librarian Rhea Lesage
is working with the Center for Hellenic Studies <http://chs.harvard.edu/> and
the Open Greek and Latin Project team on this initiative.
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