Dear Matteo,
I remember an article entitled "Il mostro di Irvine" (the Irvine monster, referring to the TLG). I searched around and found the details:
E. Degani, Il mostro di Irvine, «Eikasmós» III, 1992, 277s. = Filologia e storia. Scritti di Enzo Degani, II, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 2004, 914s.).
<http://www.patroneditore.com/EIKA/riviste/articoli/4562/il_mostro_di_irvine.html>
Also check out footnote no. 20 in
http://www2.classics.unibo.it/Eikasmos/Degani/Burzacchini.pdf
(the article is a commemoration of E. Degani after his death).
By the way: in the DH class I teach for classics grad students of my university I require that they mention the digital concordance systems they used in their essays (what corpus, corpus version, Diogenes-like program and its version). I hope that they'll continue do to so in their future theses/articles. I am under the impression, however, that most classicists around here use them, but hardly ever mention them.
Cheers,
Paolo
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2014 um 12:57 Uhr
Von: "Jason Davies" <[log in to unmask]>
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Betreff: Re: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Effects of electronic concordance systems on classical scholarship
On 22 May 2014, at 9:43, Matteo Romanello wrote:
It does happen, however, from time to time to encounter passages where classicists do reflect on their use of digital tools and on how this has an impact on their work. In absence of more specific studies, these passages are real gems insofar as they document the changing practices of those working on classical texts.
My book (Rome's Religious History) specifically acknowledges the team at barebones software and BBEdit. It enabled me to do grep searches for Latin terms in a way that made a concordance irrelevant, and the research an awful lot quicker.
This was during the mid-90s. I remember getting quite a lot of derision for the way I used to bang away at my keyboard whenever people wondered whether a particular term appeared in a particular author (including Greek ones) which tend to slight puzzlement as I announced that Homer used the term twice and gave the line references. This of course was only possible because of the recently appeared plain text versions of so many authors in that period. I attach an image of my acknowledgements page in the hope that it makes it through the lists server
But you should also look into Gary Forsythe (http://www.depts.ttu.edu/historydepartment/faculty/profiles/forsythe_gary.php). I believe that he works entirely from databases is created (I gather he is blind). He does talk about this in books during the 90s and I don't remember offhand which ones that you should be able to have a quick look via Google books :-)
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Dr Jason Davies
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