Harvard's Loeb Classical Library Goes Digital

Harvard's Loeb Classical Library Goes Digital(harvardmagazine.com)

23 points by agrostis 11 years ago | 5 comments

walterbell 11 years ago |

Will the sources/data be available for download, as in the Perseus Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/?

agrostis 11 years ago | |

That's a good question. Loeb's primary strength (apart from its exceptional typographics) is that it puts original texts side by side with translations, making it easier for a reader to make sense of the Greek or Latin source by comparing it to English. I'm not aware of any widely accepted digital formats for parallel prose that Loeb could offer for download; PDF or DejaVu have their obvious drawbacks; so that would probably leave us with some proprietary stuff, sadly.

walterbell 11 years ago | | |

There is active work underway at W3C on annotation standards, it would be great if Loeb's experience could inform the new standards.

http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/

dfan 11 years ago |

This is terrific, but I assume that the price will put it out of reach for individuals.

agrostis 11 years ago | |

I fear so much. As if OED subscription at two hundred quid per annum wasn't bad enough.