Hugh Cayless wrote :
> I don't know about that specific project though. Is Rob on this
> list? http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/thesis.pdf looks
> like it might be dealing with the project you're talking about.
Yes, indeed, I think that's the one. I saw the presentation at a
conference late in the year 2000, and it made quite an impression
on me back then. Perhaps he went on to other things after
completing that PhD in 2003.
Thanks very much, Hugh, and thanks also for your comments and
for the other references.
- Laval Hunsucker
Breukelen, Nederland
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> From: Hugh Cayless <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 5:53 PM
>Subject: Re: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Why are there no digital scholarly editions of "classical" texts?
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>On Apr 6, 2012, at 11:00AM, Laval Hunsucker wrote:
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>>Is there in fact anyone among us -- or in the broader community
>>of classicists, digital or otherwise -- who even comes near to
>>holding such beliefs ??
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>>If there is, I'd be interested to hear more about it.
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>I imagine not, but there is the problem that the available digital search tools don't capture these variations, and yet are used for research all the time. I expect the risks from this are in reality fairly small, and obviously can be mitigated by a scholar who is aware of the limitations of the resources. But still, the gaps in the digital archives are there, and it's easy to overlook them.
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>>But, to get back to his real concern ( see his "grand vision of
>>digital editions based on complete transcriptions of primary
>>sources" ) : I vaguely recollect from a rather intriguing
>>presentation at a conference which I attended in the USA
>>already well over ten years ago that Robert Sanderson was
>>working in Liverpool on a project with just the kind of
>>approach which Paolo is now suggesting should ideally be
>>pursued. I didn't follow up on it at the time, and indeed never
>>heard anything more about it ( it was more in a medievalist,
>>and computer-science, than in a classics disciplinary context ),
>>but perhaps someone here is aware of what if anything more
>>ever came out of it. If so, I'd also be interested in hearing about
>>that.
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>I'm aware of a few projects that attempt to deal comprehensively with all the sources for a particular text (http://romandelarose.org/ comes to mind). And there's Juxta (http://www.juxtasoftware.org/), a tool for working digitally with multiple witnesses. I don't know about that specific project though. Is Rob on this list? http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~azaroth/papers/thesis.pdf looks like it might be dealing with the project you're talking about.
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>Best,
>Hugh
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