Launched: Concordance Liberation Project: Freeing The Information Inward Greek As Well As Latin Concordances For Digital Projects

Concordance Liberation Project: Freeing the information inwards Greek too Latin concordances for digital projects

Where convey all the concordances gone? Before the ascent of a for sure ubiquitous search engine, the humble index verborum (an alphabetical listing of lexicon headwords used inwards a text, alongside a amount listing of citations for each instance) or concordance (same, simply alongside a few words of context for each instance) were respected genres of scholarship. Concordances, wearisome though they may seem, helped classical scholars inwards studying the feature vocabulary of the authors. They allowed the finding of passages quickly. They helped translators too commentators yesteryear allowing access to a amount listing of instances of a detail lemma, something dictionaries did non provide. They revealed which words did non look inwards an author. And, a telephone commutation element for many classical concordance makers, they could assistance inwards efforts to constitute a to a greater extent than authoritative text.

Now the impress concordance is good too genuinely defunct, digital road-kill beneath the bicycle of digital tools. Yet close algorithmic attempts to replicate concordances are real lists of grapheme strings, not, equally alongside close of the older impress concordances, lists of lexicon headwords—a crucial distinction.

But what if the painstaking move of previous generations could endure freed from the majority too opened to digital processing?

The Concordance Liberation Project volition publish the information on Github nether a creative common percentage alike license, as:

• a .txt file of the professionally digitized book
• a lemmatized text of the move (as a spreadsheet and/or csv)
• code that allowed harvested the lemmata from the .txt too created a lemmatization spreadhsheet for end processing yesteryear human hands.

Whenever possible, these lemmatized texts volition endure added to The Bridge to allow readers to exercise goodness straight from the lemmatization move of scholars long ago.
A fuller version of this manifesto tin strength out endure found at Flight of the Concordances

Lucretius

• Paulson, Johannes. Index Lucretianus. Leipzig: Wincornachdruck, 1926.
• begun Fall 2017
• completed Spring 2018
• funding back upwardly yesteryear Dickinson College, Haverford College (Faculty Research Grant)
• Repository

Apuleius

• Oldfather, William A., H. V. Canter, Kenneth Morgan Abbott, too B. E. Perry. Index Apuleianus. Middleton: American Philological Association, 1934.
• begun 2018
• completed January 2019
• funding back upwardly yesteryear Society of Classical Studies (Pedagogy Grant), Haverford College (Faculty Research Grant)
• Repository

Eutropius

• Moser, A. H. Index Verborum Eutropianus Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1931.
• begun January 2019
• Repository