I expect the Shared Canvas project that Don references is in some ways the intellectual heir of Rob's earlier project.
On Apr 6, 2012, at 5:20PM, Laval Hunsucker wrote:
> Hugh Cayless wrote :
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>> I don't know about that specific project though. Is Rob on this
>> list? http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/thesis.pdf looks
>> like it might be dealing with the project you're talking about.
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> Yes, indeed, I think that's the one. I saw the presentation at a
> conference late in the year 2000, and it made quite an impression
> on me back then. Perhaps he went on to other things after
> completing that PhD in 2003.
>
> Thanks very much, Hugh, and thanks also for your comments and
> for the other references.
>
>
> - Laval Hunsucker
> Breukelen, Nederland
>
>
>
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>> From: Hugh Cayless <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 5:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Why are there no digital scholarly editions of "classical" texts?
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>> On Apr 6, 2012, at 11:00AM, Laval Hunsucker wrote:
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>>> Is there in fact anyone among us -- or in the broader community
>>> of classicists, digital or otherwise -- who even comes near to
>>> holding such beliefs ??
>>>
>>> If there is, I'd be interested to hear more about it.
>>>
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>> I imagine not, but there is the problem that the available digital search tools don't capture these variations, and yet are used for research all the time. I expect the risks from this are in reality fairly small, and obviously can be mitigated by a scholar who is aware of the limitations of the resources. But still, the gaps in the digital archives are there, and it's easy to overlook them.
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>>> But, to get back to his real concern ( see his "grand vision of
>>> digital editions based on complete transcriptions of primary
>>> sources" ) : I vaguely recollect from a rather intriguing
>>> presentation at a conference which I attended in the USA
>>> already well over ten years ago that Robert Sanderson was
>>> working in Liverpool on a project with just the kind of
>>> approach which Paolo is now suggesting should ideally be
>>> pursued. I didn't follow up on it at the time, and indeed never
>>> heard anything more about it ( it was more in a medievalist,
>>> and computer-science, than in a classics disciplinary context ),
>>> but perhaps someone here is aware of what if anything more
>>> ever came out of it. If so, I'd also be interested in hearing about
>>> that.
>>>
>>>
>> I'm aware of a few projects that attempt to deal comprehensively with all the sources for a particular text (http://romandelarose.org/ comes to mind). And there's Juxta (http://www.juxtasoftware.org/), a tool for working digitally with multiple witnesses. I don't know about that specific project though. Is Rob on this list? http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/thesis.pdf looks like it might be dealing with the project you're talking about.
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>> Best,
>> Hugh
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