SunoikisisDC: Finding Free Classical Texts

Speakers: Monica Berti (University of Leipzig), Gabriel Bodard (University of London), Katharine Shields (King's College London)

Sunoikisis Digital Classics session 1 

This session introduces and discusses some of the main sources of free and open classical texts in digital formats. Resources range from curated and highly structured, encoded corpora such as the Scaife Viewer and Diorisis Corpus, through catalogues of available texts and archives of digitised public domain books, to sophisticated workflows for optical character recognition (OCR) of ancient languages. We outline the scope and limitations of some of the main collections, discuss some of the potential for improving and analysing these texts (to be discussed in future sessions), and suggest an exercise involving comparing versions of a text found in multiple sites. 

Follow live or later at: https://youtu.be/mbrGPcciIU0 

Further information, readings and exercise at: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2024-2025/wiki/1-Finding-Texts