What has been done so far:
- The betacode in the texts has been converted into UTF-8 with a series of convert scripts.
Remaining
Problems: Not quite all of the Greek has made it, and you may
find the occasional English or Latin in 'Greek'. Do please let us know when you find such problems, via the "Report a Problem" link on Results pages.
- Milestones (known to classicists as chapter and section numbers, Bekker pages, Stephanus pages, and the like) are shown in the margin of the text. When looking up a Bekker or Stephanus page, do not add line numbers, only the page + letter. If you add more, the system assumes that you are looking for a higher number than the highest it can find. For instance, 1447a7 will land you in 1447b.
- Morphological lookups are now possible, and links are provided to the various lexica in the collection. If you do not use the 'd' key but the box at the top of the page, you must use full diacritics in either Unicode or betacode. Unaccented words may show unexpected results! A quick guide to the transliteration scheme can be found in the Info and Help section on the search forms.
- Metadata: The standard configuration of Philologic will pick up
other tags that have been added to the texts. You can then limit your
search not just to particular authors or works, but also to text marked
as 'speech' (sp) or 'agon.' Click on the 'Terms' button to get a
listing of search terms.
Caveat
1: The dates given for Perseus texts are dates for publication
of their printed originals, so that searching by date will not give you
results for 5th century BC. We have disabled this feature.
Caveat 2: This is not foolproof, of course -- it all depends on whether someone manually tagged these things in the first place. So searching in 'sp' will not necessarily get you all Thucydidean speeches, but only what is marked as such.
Desideratum: Still, this is an extremely exciting feature, so if you have a legion of coders available to mark up texts, I'm sure Perseus will be interested:-) And so am I. We have now marked up the speakers in Greek drama properly, so you can do searches limited to particular speakers, for instance.
Caveat 2: This is not foolproof, of course -- it all depends on whether someone manually tagged these things in the first place. So searching in 'sp' will not necessarily get you all Thucydidean speeches, but only what is marked as such.
Desideratum: Still, this is an extremely exciting feature, so if you have a legion of coders available to mark up texts, I'm sure Perseus will be interested:-) And so am I. We have now marked up the speakers in Greek drama properly, so you can do searches limited to particular speakers, for instance.
- A few notes on what we'd like to see done (for some of these we
have in-house expertise, but not necessarily for all):
- proper alphabetization of unicode in sorted KWIC results
- Note to developers: PhiloLogic is open-source. Feel free to
download and experiment! Please let us know when you write enhancements
to take care of any of the above-mentioned issues !
- Interested classicists: Please contact Helma Dik with your
comments.