Here is a post from Juxta – Collation software for scholars: Good news! Google has offered its support to help us develop Juxta into a web application: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html We are thrilled to have received this competitive award, and look forward to working to optimize Juxta for the web. Here is an abstract of our application [...]
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Google commitment to the Digital Humanities
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents, on The Official Google Blog: It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains scholia written fifteen centuries earlier about texts [...]
Google releases 500 scans of ancient Greek and Latin texts for research
Posted by Will Brockman, Software Engineer, on Inside Google Books: As an undergraduate I dabbled in Classics, and I remember being surprised by the term hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον). That’s “written once” — a word that occurs in only one place in the written record. It seems impossible, but happens surprisingly often: over 300 words [...]
