Issue 8: Text Collections

Anemoskala: corpus and concordances for major Modern Greek poets

Anemoskala. Corpus and concordances for major Modern Greek poets http://www.greek-language.gr/digitalResources/literature/tools/concordance/index.html (Last Accessed: 2017-11-15). Reviewed by Anna-Maria Sichani (University of Ioannina (Greece) - King's Digital Lab).

This paper reviews Anemoskala, an online resource offering a fully searchable textual corpus of major Modern Greek Poets (19th and 20th century), alongside with concordances and other scholarly components. Anemoskala is a digital resource originally designed to support teaching and research, and this overall goal is closely related to its scholarly…

PHI Latin Texts

Classical Latin Texts. A Resource Prepared by The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) http://latin.packhum.org/ (Last Accessed: 2018-01-31). Reviewed by Dániel Kozák (Eötvös Loránd University, Dept. of Latin).

PHI Latin Texts (PHI, in short), although published online in 2015, provides access to the contents of the 1998 CD-ROM version of the same database. It has a minimalistic user interface which allows users to browse the collection and run full-text searches on selected works or the whole collection. The texts are taken from reliable critical editions, but…

Review of Perseus Digital Library

Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ (Last Accessed: 2017-12-10). Reviewed by Sarah Lang (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung (ZIM-ACDH)).

Perseus Digital Library is a well-established Digital Humanities project providing a library of out-of-copyright editions of canonical world literature with a focus on the Classical languages while expanding its scope beyond its original field. Apart from being a text collection, Perseusalso provides a plethora of tools for the analysis of its text material…

Rezension der Deutschsprachigen Wikisource

Wikisource (deutsch) https://de.wikisource.org (Last Accessed: 2018-02-13). Reviewed by Susanne Haaf (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

The German Wikisource project evolved from a multilingual Wikimedia venture for the digitization of historical text sources. As a sub-project of the Wikimedia Foundation it is substantially based on the non-profit work of voluntarily engaged people. The objective is to digitize German, mostly historical works according to high-standard guidelines and to…

Théâtre Classique

Théâtre classique http://www.theatre-classique.fr (Last Accessed: 2018-01-05). Reviewed by Christof Schöch (University of Trier).

This review concerns a collection of French dramatic texts called Théâtre classique, edited by Paul Fièvre since 2007 and available at http://www.theatre-classique.fr. Over the years, the collection has grown continually and currently provides access to 1,080 French plays, the large majority of which have been written or published between 1630 and 1800. In…

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