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The Digital Latin Library

By Samuel J Huskey

This paper will provide background on the Digital Latin Library and an overview of its major components, with particular emphasis on its role as a publisher of born-digital critical editions of Latin texts.

Automatically Encoding Critical Editions of Latin Texts

By Virginia K. Felkner

Scholars might want to produce critical editions for the LDLT, but they might lack the technical background and time to learn XML, the standard format for LDLT editions. The goal of my work has been to facilitate the publication of digital editions by automating the XML-encoding process. I have developed a set of four Python scripts, each of which produces a complete TEI XML document from simple input files for a different type of source text: prose, poetry, drama, and mixed matter.

Pragmatic or Pure? Two Experiments in Editing

By Cynthia Damon

This talk is a report from the field on two experiments in editing conducted with recent classes at Penn. The first, following a purist model for born-digital editions, started with the transcription of the manuscripts and—eventually—yielded a critical edition of the Bellum Alexandrinum for the Library of Digital Latin Texts. Over the course of 4 years it involved about 80 undergraduates, Postbacs, and graduate students at Penn and some high school students from the Philadelphia area.

Is There an Editor in this Text?

By Robert Kaster

For lovers of classical Latin texts it might be said, after Dickens, that it is the best of times, it is the worst of times. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, our texts have never been so readily accessible: collections like thelatinlibrary.com, Perseus (perseus.tufts.edu), and the Packard Humanities Institute database (latin.packhum.org)—to name only the most widely used—make available multiple versions of the most commonly read authors and texts—along with many not so commonly read—with a few clicks of a mouse or strokes on a keyboard.

What does a (digital) critical edition look like?

By Hugh Cayless

The basic form of a critical edition is well established: an introduction which lays out the history of the text, bibliography, and any other relevant material, followed by a table of symbols used in the critical apparatus, followed by the text with app. crit. and sometimes other apparatuses, then, finally, appendices and indices, if any.