Thinking out loud. .... Given the open access availability of Perseus, couldn't a sort of competing app be developed?
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> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:20 AM, "Charles E. Jones" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> (With all due respect) In your dreams!
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> Details on how libraries are going to license this stuff are thin at the moment - possibly through De Gruyter?
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> Edwin Donnelly and others have worked to make the open (i.e. old) Loebs accessible:
> http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/06/loebolus-loebs.html
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> -Chuck-
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> From: The Digital Classicist List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Gabriel Bodard [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 10:00 AM
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> Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Fwd: INFO: Loeb Online
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> Anyone know anything about this Loeb announcement? Will the texts be
> open access, or even better, open licensed?
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: INFO: Loeb Online
> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:34:39 +0000
> From: Clark, Stephen <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
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> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/loeb/digital.html
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>
> Forthcoming in Fall 2014: The Digital Loeb Classical Library®
>
> "The Loeb Classical Library® <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb>, founded
> by James Loeb in 1911, has from the very beginning fostered its stated
> mission to make classical Greek and Latin literature accessible to the
> broadest range of readers. The *digital Loeb Classical library* extends
> this mission for readers of the twenty-first century. Harvard University
> Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility and with
> the introduction of the digital Loeb Classical Library presents an
> interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library
> of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric
> poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, philosophy, and oratory; the great
> medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made
> particular use of the Classics—in short, our entire Greek and Latin
> Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and
> accurate and literate English translations. 523 volumes of fully
> searchable Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and
> elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark,
> annotate, and share content with ease."
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