Open Greek and Latin

Open Greek & Latin

An international collaboration committed to creating an open educational resource featuring a corpus of digital texts, deep-reading tools, and open-source software. We strive to support and enhance teaching and research. All materials can be downloaded, modified, and redistributed in accordance with all applicable licenses.

Texts

Read texts from all available partner repositories using the Scaife Viewer, a custom Canonical Text Services (CTS) compliant reading environment.

Partners

First Thousand Years of Greek

This project aims to collect at least one edition of every Greek work composed between Homer and 250 CE with a focus on texts that do not already exist in other open source environments.

Perseus Digital Library

In the context of Open Greek & Latin, Perseus will offer open source, CTS versions of all public domain Perseus-published texts for integration and reuse.

LACE at Mount Allison University

Polylingual OCR editing. LACE catalogues the on-going campaign to produce high-quality OCR of polytonic, or 'ancient', Greek texts in a HPC environment.

Eldarion

Eldarion has provided the web application support to build the Scaife Viewer, a new reading environment for the Open Greek & Latin texts.

Center for Hellenic Studies

The CHS provides support for outreach and training through initiatives such as student internships, work on a new commentary environment for close reading.

University of Virginia Library

Work at UVA Library includes digitization support, library outreach, and student internships.

Harvard Library

The Harvard Library provides support in collection acquisition and management, including document identification, digitization work, and collection integration.

The Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig

Work at the DH Chair in Leipzig provides the basis of all aspects of work, from document scanning and digitization review, markup, CTS review and presentation, and repository management.

Featured Projects

Open-access projects produced by partners and colleagues that highlight the OGL workflow and best practices.

Digital Athenaeus

A digital edition of the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis.

Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum

The digital edition of the five volumes of the Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG).

The Homer Multitext Project

The Homer Multitext project seeks to present the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework.

Statistics

Texts

Authors

Words

Collections

Data & Tools

Data sources for the text libraries:

https://github.com/brobertson/Lace2 https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/csel-dev

Tools for working with the data:

The Classical Language Toolkit

Contact

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Blog

Introducing Open Greek and Latin!

April 22, 2019

Welcome to our site. Here you’ll find information on our partners, featured projects, data, tools, and updates on our work. New updates on our work will be forthcoming. Enjoy Open Greek and Latin.

First 2K of Greek

The First Thousand Years of Greek (First 1K Greek) is now going modern and will be transitioning into the First Two Thousand Years of Greek (First 2K Greek)! We hope to see a healthy interest in several millennia of Greek and Latin texts available in the Open Access model. The First 1K Greek project produced […]

Collaborators

Supporting institutions, projects, and partners.