On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Tim Finney
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Martin,
Here is an (unfinished) example of something I would not like to try
without the help of computers:
http://purl.org/tfinney/ATV/
The analysis has brought new things to light; there has been an advance
in knowledge that would not have been achieved without digital
assistance.
Best,
Tim Finney
> On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Martin Mueller wrote:
>
> > The other day I had a conversation with a colleague who in a =20
> > friendly, but skeptical and pointed way asked whether all this =20
> > digital stuff made an important difference. It is still a good =20
> > question. In the domain of text-based scholarship, classical =20
> > philology (broadly construed) is an important test case. It is the =20
> > only discipline of substantial generic, linguistic, and diachronic =20
> > scope of which it can be said that all or most of the relevant =20
> > documents exist in fairly good and moderately interoperable form. =20
> > There is no TLG or anything like it for English, German, or any =20
> > other language. There is All of Old English and All of Old Norse, =20
> > but those are boutique operations.
> >