In the arena of pure brainstorming, back when I was messing around
with the iBooks XML format I noticed you could define your own custom
glossary which the app would use to provide a definition when a word
was selected. Perhaps an interesting area for investigation (public
domain text/translation mashed up with the dictionaries provided by
Perseus), but maybe also fraught as Apple seems to frown upon creating
iBooks material outside of iBooks Author. The Kindle will also allow
you to load custom dictionaries, but I've never experimented with how
it handles Ancient Greek. Mostly, these would allow one to get around
the heavy overhead involved in designing a complete "app" by
leveraging an existing book platform/ecosystem.
I suppose one can only dream that Harvard would make the Loeb works
which are already in the public domain free to access in their new
digital library...
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:33 AM, David Meadows
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Basically everything the Loeb can do plus link to dictionaries ... Perhaps
> include better navigation than the current Perseus, ability to work away
> from a network etc
>
> On February 6, 2014 11:10:51 AM EST, Gabriel Bodard
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> What would this "competing app" do that Perseus / Alpheios etc. don't
>> already do?
>>
>> (Genuine question, btw: I'm hoping we can brainstorm our wishlist for an
>> open Latin app.)
>>
>> On 2014-02-06 15:27, Rogueclassicist wrote:
>>>
>>> Thinking out loud. .... Given the open access availability of Perseus,
>>> couldn't a sort of competing app be developed?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:20 AM, "Charles E. Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (With all due respect) In your dreams!
>>>>
>>>> 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 o
>>>> pen
>>>> (i.e. old) Loebs accessible:
>>>> http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/06/loebolus-loebs.html
>>>>
>>>> -Chuck-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> 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(R)
>>>>
>>>> "The Loeb Classical Library(R) <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 co
>>>> medy;
>>>> 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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