Monica Berti

Collecting fragmentary authors in a digital library

This paper discusses new work to represent, in a digital library of classical sources, authors whose works themselves are lost and who survive only where surviving authors quote, paraphrase or allude to them. It describes initial works from a digital collection of such fragmentary authors designed not only to capture but to extend the ontologies that traditional scholarship has developed over generations: the aim is representing every nuance of print conventions while using the capabilities of digital libraries to extend our ability to identify fragments, to represent what we have identified, and to render the results of that work intellectually and physically more accessible than was possible in print culture.

A New Implementation for Canonical Text Services

This paper introduces a new implementation of the Canonical Text Services (CTS) protocol intended to be capable of handling thousands of editions. CTS was introduced for the Digital Humanities and is based on a hierarchical structuring of texts down to the level of individual words mirroring traditional practices of citing. The paper gives an overview of CTS for those that are unfamiliar and establishes its place in the Digital Humanities research. Some existing CTS implementations are discussed and it is explained why there is a need for one that is able to scale to much larger text collections. Evaluations are given that can be used to illustrate the performance of the new implementation.

Perseids collaborative platform for annotating text re-uses of fragmentary authors

The goal of this document is to present a fragmentary texts demo built under Perseids, a collaborative platform being developed by the Perseus Project that leverages and extends pre-existing open-source tools and services to support editing and annotating TEI XML documents in Classics: http://sites.tufts.edu/perseids/ [1]. The aim of this use case is to build a shared environment for multi-level annotations of text re-uses of ancient lost works: http://perseids.org/sites/berti_demo/index.html.

When printed hypertexts go digital: information extraction from the parsing of indices

Modern critical editions of ancient works generally include manually created indices of other sources quoted in the text. Since indices can be considered as a form of domain specific language, the paper presents a parsing-based approach to the problem of extracting information from them to support the creation of a collection of fragmentary texts. This paper first considers the characteristics and structure of quotation indices and their importance when dealing with fragmentary texts. It then presents the results of applying a fuzzy parser to the OCR transcription of an index of quotations to extract information from potentially noisy input.