Now there's a thought.
Dr. Anna Foka, Umeå University. Sent from Astarte, my iPhone.
> On 6 feb 2014, at 16:28, "Rogueclassicist" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thinking out loud. .... Given the open access availability of Perseus, couldn't a sort of competing app be developed?
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> Sent from my iPad
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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?
>>
>> Edwin Donnelly and others have worked to make the open (i.e. old) Loebs accessible:
>> http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/06/loebolus-loebs.html
>>
>> -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
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Fwd: INFO: Loeb Online
>>
>> Anyone know anything about this Loeb announcement? Will the texts be
>> open access, or even better, open licensed?
>>
>>
>> -------- 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]>
>>
>>
>> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/loeb/digital.html
>>
>>
>> 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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