What's New

News

• A collaboration with the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, le Musée Gadagne, the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon and the ARTFL Project, L'Echo de la Fabrique, a popular industrial and literary journal from mid-19th century Lyon is now available online using the PhiloLogic search engine. (9/07)
• We are pleased to announce the release of a greatly expanded and revised Main ARTFL Database ARTFL - FRANTEXT. We have added more than 800 texts, integrated new bibliographic information, and added new search and reporting functionality under PhiloLogic3. For a full description of this new release please consult Robert Morrissey's Words from the Director. (6/07)
• As a result of our collaboration with the Médiathèque de l'Agglomération Troyenne (MAT) and the Collaborative Initiative for French and North American Libraries (CIFNAL), the ARTFL Project announces a preliminary version of the Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes. The database currently contains 116 works of popular French literature (littérature du colportage) from the 16th to 18th centuries. (5/07)
• The ARTFL Project and the Digital Library Developement Center (DLDC) at the University of Chicago have released PhiloMine, a set of Machine Learning and Text Mining extensions to the PhiloLogic full-text search and analysis package. PhiloMine is designed to support a variety of machine learning, text mining, and document clustering experiments in an interactive, Web-based environment. (03/07)

• The ARTFL Project has installed the Provençal Poetry and Textes de Français Ancien databases under PhiloLogic 3.1. (08/06).

• In collaboration with the Perseus Project at Tufts University, the ARTFL Project is pleased to announce a preliminary release of the Perseus collection of Greek and Latin texts under PhiloLogic. (08/06)

• The ARTFL Project has finished updating both the Montaigne Project and the Grand Cyrus databases which are now searchable under PhiloLogic3. (8/06)

• New at ARTFL: Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopaedia, or, A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (2 vols. published in 1728, with 2 supplement vols. in 1753) - One of the first general encyclopedias to be published in English and a primary inspiration for Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. This is an experimental implementation of uncorrected OCR from page images at University of Wisconsin Digital Collections and using similarity searching under PhiloLogic3. (08/06)

• The ARTFL Project announces the release of PhiloLogic 3.1. This version been modified to support multi-lingual user interfaces. All 300+ system messages are now found in language specific arrays which can be specified by the database administrator. We currently have French and English messages. If you are using PhiloLogic and want to help by translating the interface into other languages, please let us know and we will be happy to assist you in any way that we can. We are particular interested in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and German. (07/06)

• The ARTFL Project announces a maintenance release of the Open Source version of PhiloLogic (3.002). In addition to various housekeeping measures, the release features support for non-TEI encoding schemes, an Ajax powered note display handler, a new search operator for word search refinement, and a GUI text loader for OS-X computers (03/06).

• ARTFL has released a beta-test version of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano database under PhiloLogic3. This database has 110 new documents, now numbering 1,960 vernacular texts the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. (02/06)

• The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce a new, full-text version of Pierre Bayle's monumental Dictionnaire historique et critique (5th Edition, 1740). Currently there are two Alpha versions of the database running (see the Project Caveats for more information). We expect several more versions of the database to be available in the coming months after our corrections project is underway. (12/05)

• A new ARTFL endeavor for subscribers: The Journal de Trévoux, or Mémoires pour l'Histoire des Sciences & des Beaux-Arts. Currently, we have the volumes from 1751 to 1757 and hope to release more in the coming year (12/05).

• New for ARTFL subscribers: Louis Moréri's Grand Dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane, etc., (20th edition, 1759). This is an experimental implementation of uncorrected OCR of the page images using similarity searching under PhiloLogic3. (11/05)

• The ARTFL Encyclopédie Corrections Project has recently included more than 32,000 hand corrections into the lastest version of the Encylopédie Database. This batch of corrections has been completed for vols. 2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 18, 20 and 21. Also note that we have implemented ESSAI D'UNE DISTRIBUTION GÉNÉALOGIQUE DES SCIENCES ET DES ARTS PRINCIPAUX. Chrétien Frederic Guillaume Roth's graphical representation of the Encyclopédie's system of knowledge as an iconographic tree. (11/05).
• The ARTFL Project has released an open source version of PhiloLogic version 3. This version is a significant rewrite of PhiloLogic v2 and supports many new search and reporting features, including NOT searching and searching on nested text objects (such as letters and speeches). It is known to support very large collections of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML and SGML encoded documents on a number of Linux, Solaris, and Macintosh OS-X platforms. Please consult philologic.uchicago.edu for further details, including a number of demonstration databases, and downloads. We will be rebuilding all ARTFL databases under the new system in the near future (10/05).

• The ARTFL Encyclopédie Corrections Project has recently included more than 30,000 hand corrections into the lastest version of the Encylopédie Database. Currently, 7 volumes of text (vols. 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 13 & 16) and 1 volume of plate-legend text (vol. 19) have been corrected (5/05).
• In conjunction with Electronic Text Services at the University of Chicago, we are pleased to announce a preliminary implementation of the Early English Books Online - Text Collection Partnership (EEBO-TCP) database under PhiloLogic. Please note that access to EEBO-TCP is restricted to Partner Institutions (01/05).

• Thanks to recent work by Dena Goodman (Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan), Benjamin Heller and Kevin Hawkins at the Collaborative Translation Project of Diderot's Encyclopedia, the ARTFL Encyclopédie now features normalized and translated categories of knowledge in its bibliographic search criteria. The ARTFL Project would like to express its gratitude for this important undertaking (12/04).

• In collaboration with the Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes (GIRB) and the Maison de Balzac, we are pleased to announce the first release of Balzac. La Comédie humaine. Édition critique en ligne. This is the complete text of the Furne edition of La Comédie humaine with a large collection of supporting documentation and additional resources developed by numerous participating Balzac scholars (11/04).

• ARTFL subscribers may now consult our preliminary release of the Supplément à l'Encyclopédie, Panckoucke's four volume supplement to Diderot's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres. This features full searching and reporting, with digital images of each page, links from articles in the Supplément which amend or extend articles in the Encyclopédie, as well as a new metadata search on both the Encyclopédie and Supplément (10/04).

• ARTFL subscribers now have access to the latest release of the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) database of early Italian vernacular sources. Sixty-nine texts have been added, bringing the total to 1,849 documents. The verse and prose works, the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. Access to the OVI database is included with the standard ARTFL institutional subscription. For more information and access, see the OVI home page (10/04).

• The ARTFL Project has released an open source version of PhiloLogic, our primary text search, retrieval and analysis system. This implementation is configured to load large collections of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML and SGML encoded documents on a number of Linux, Solaris, and Macintosh OS-X platforms. Please consult philologic.uchicago.edu for further details, including a number of demonstration databases, and downloads. We are planning a second release for the fall of 2004 which will include a number of extensions and new reporting options (9/04).

• The research team of the Artamène project (Claude Bourqui, Alexandre Gefen, & Barbara Selmeci) in collaboration with the ARFTL Project and the University of Neuchâtel have completed an online version of Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, the longest novel in French Letters. Accessible from the main Artamène site (with an English version at ARTFL), the text is searchable using PhiloLogic software and includes digital page images as well as an apparatus of iconographic documents.
• The ARTFL Project, in colloboration with Montaigne Studies, is pleased to announce the unveiling of the Montaigne Project - a fully searchable online version of the Villey-Saulnier edition of Montaigne's Essais with corresponding digital page images from the Exemplaire de Bordeaux.
• In collaboration with Professor Kunstmann and the Laboratoire de Français Ancien (LFA) at the University of Ottawa, we have released an update of the Textes de Français Ancien database. The new version presents an additional 23 documents, containing over a million words. The whole database now contains approximately three million words in 103 documents. We favored, for this update, the works of Chrétien de Troyes (5 romances) and Guillaume d'Orange's epic cycle (8 chansons).

• ARTFL has updated and expanded its French dictionary collection, Dictionnaires d'autrefois.
• A new multiple dictionary search engine, Onelook, allows users to query 7 dictionaries concurrently.
• We are now offering Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française thanks to a collaboration with GEHLF and the CNRS.
• We have also added the 4th Edtion of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française as well as a corrected version of the 6th Edition.
• Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF) of the CNRS is now Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF).

Experiments

• Chinese-English Online Dictionary
• Collocation Analysis for the Main ARTFL Database (FRANTEXT). Under "Select a Results Format" highlight E. Experimental PoleWord Frequency. Enter the term for which you would like to see frequencies ranked.
• English-Japanese Dictionary
• Parallel Multi-Lingual Bibles