On 26/08/10 14:56, Tom Elliott wrote:
> Matteo may already be familiar with it, but just in case not (and for
> the benefit of others):
>
> Alison Jones at Tufts has been running a literature review as part of an
> IMLS-funded planning project that's looking a digital infrastructure
> needs for Classics (Perseus and CLIR are the co-recipients of the grant):
>
> http://www.citeulike.org/user/AlisonBabeu/tag/clir-review
I am pleased to see that some of the older articles are on this
bibliography. I've just re-read James T. McDonough's "Computers and
Classics". The Classical World 53:2 (1959): 44-50
(<http://www.jstor.org/stable/4344244>), especially the final paragraphs:
"When we consider the forty-three years Professor Allen spent on his
concordance to Euripides, we cannot but admire his heroic personal
sacrifice for the cause of classical scholarship. But we must remember
also that there was a twofold sacrifice of classical scholarship itself.
Lost are books, monographs, articles, and reviews in which Professor
Allen could have graced us with unique insights gleaned from the pre-
paration of his concordance. There were also written during this period
more than a thousand items on Euripides, scarcely one of which would not
have benefited had the concordance been printed in 1906 instead of 1954.
That such techniques as this article attempts to sketch were not
available to Professor Allen at the turn of the century is tragic. If
they be not extensively employed from this day forth by all interested
in classical scholarship, it will indeed by a harsh commentary on our
intelligence."
Mike
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