Dear Neven,
One trivial question is easily answered, I think, although of course
Martin Mueller would be the more reliable source: The Chicago Homer
was around before the narratological commentary on the Odyssey was,
but probably not before Irene's dissertation (1987, if I'm not
mistaken). And Ahuvia Kahane definitely knows and knew Irene's work,
if not also Martin Mueller, the latter being really the motor of the
project.
We are currently actively looking at linking up the Perseus classical
texts under PhiloLogic with social tagging utilities like Zotero,
CiteUlike, etc: in fact this already works with Zotero but you'll
have to wait for it to become available. That should do exactly what
you want. Unfortunately the current version of Firefox is not
entirely Unicode savvy, so that Greek and French alike look quite
ugly in Zotero.
Anyway, this should not stop you from doing the same thing!
On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Neven Jovanović wrote:
> Dear Helma et al,
>
> thank you for the information. I used the time spent in not-
> replying to
> see what people have written about interfaces and tagging the Greek
> and
> Latin corpora.
>
> It seems that (unsurprisingly) serious thinking about it has been
> done at
> Chicago Homer -- this should be an important part in a review of this
> resource. Peter Heslin's Diogenes also offers searches on genre,
> place,
> and periods (just for the TLG corpus, because PHI and other corpora
> seem
> not to have been tagged in this way) -- including a curious
> category of
> "author genre" -- the lists are interesting per se, as is any
> folksonomy.
> And, yes, PhiloLogic offers the infrastructure for tagging of any
> kind --
> the "terms" search for Perseus is indeed a valuable tool.
>
> Now, what I also found out is that there is a vast source of tags
> describing content already out there in the internet. These "tags" are
> actually short resumes and arguments, usually appended to old,
> often 19th
> century editions of classical texts (e. g. Lemaire); currently you can
> find, use, and download a whole lot of them through Google Books.
>
> We can imagine a group of people using such resumes to tag e. g.
> Cicero's
> letters -- this group being, let's say, students enrolled in a
> university
> course on these letters, who during the process get to know Ad
> Atticum and
> Ad familiares better -- and then using PhiloLogic to present such an
> edition (or to incorporate it into a bigger corpus).
>
> We can also imagine a group of people trying to turn, let's say,
> Irene de
> Jong's narratological commentary on the Odyssey into a set of tags
> (actually, I would like to know did people at the Chicago Homer
> consult
> this work when they tagged the Odyssey).
>
> My point is -- the scholarship is out there, waiting to be turned into
> tags (reverse-engineered?). And it can be done piecemeal, and as
> part of
> teaching.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Yours,
>
> Neven
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