The Sixth Generation of the Perseus Digital Library and a Workflow for Open Philology -- DRAFT
Gregory Crane (Tufts University), James Tauber (Signum University),, Alison Babeu, Lisa Cerrato, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University), Clifford, Wulfman (Princeton University), Sergiusz Kazmierski (Regensburg University),, Farnoosh Shamsian (Leipzig University)

TL;DR
This paper presents Perseus 6, a major update to the digital library that integrates diverse digital texts and annotations for classical languages, emphasizing a new workflow and open data architecture.
Contribution
It introduces a new workflow and architecture for integrating digital texts and annotations in Perseus 6, expanding beyond previous versions to support open, machine-actionable data.
Findings
Perseus 6 supports a wide range of digital and annotated texts.
The ATLAS architecture enables integration of diverse linguistic data.
Most data is now available on Github for open access.
Abstract
We report here on the workflow that we needed to develop in order to integrate the growing range of openly licensed, born-digital and, increasingly, machine actionable publications. Our developmental work focused upon textual data for Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Classical Arabic and Classical Persian but the challenges that we have had to address are relevant to sources in a wide range of languages, ancient and modern. Perseus 6 was designed to be a publishing workflow that organizes complementary data into an integrated reading environment. This document focuses on the ways in which we have organized the data and describes the current state of ATLAS (Aligned Text and Linguistic Annotation Server) architecture. While this is the sixth version of the Perseus Digital Library, Perseus 6 represents a major step beyond its predecessors. Where Perseus 5 (described below) can represent…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsMathematics, Computing, and Information Processing · Digital Humanities and Scholarship
