Texts Being Digitized So Far
As I have already mentioned, there are a number of things that I want digitized. Fortunately, a couple I mentioned are already digitized and not restricted in copyright. I found that The Little Sailing has both all of Pseudo-Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca and a good deal of Plutarch done.
I found a copy of Eusebius that is digitized, but I am not sure what copyright it is under. I might could tell if my Latin were not still abysmal. Of course Perseus has some things but it appears that their materials are licensed under a non-commercial license. If given the choice I would rather not even though I have no plans of using these things for commercial purposes at the moment.
So what is actually being worked on now? Well...
- Pseudo-Lucian’s The Ass.
- Someone is finishing my digitization work of book 1 of of Chariton’s novel Chaereas and Callirhoe.
- I have someone else typing out some of the epigrams from this and the lexical tagging of another Hellenistic work.
- Another fellow is looking into digitizing some Origen or Clement of Alexandria that has never been digitized (or even translated into English). I thought that was a good idea, so I’m waiting to see what he picks.
Yet there is more. I have one more fella who is ready to jump in, but I haven’t decided what to pick yet. If anyone happens to be thinking "Gee, I sure wish [insert your choice of Koine Greek text here] was available digitally" please leave me a note. If our interests happen to coincide, you might get your wish.
Comments
Mike Aubrey 2009-01-04 10:53:23
Eric, do you know about this site:
http://sites.google.com/site/ancienttexts/Home
They have a list of "missing texts" here:
http://sites.google.com/site/ancienttexts/missing-texts
Granted, some of their stuff points to Google books, but they got a lot of texts covered in terms of what’s available in the internet.
Mike Aubrey 2009-01-04 11:02:07
Oh and the Eusebius text is out of bounds unless you can get permission from TLG.
Eric 2009-01-04 11:05:37
I don’t recognize it, so if I have seen it before I must have forgotten about it :)
So in his missing texts section he lists some interesting stuff. First, I started a digitization of Dionysius of Halicarnassus a while back and did some reading it it. Today I thought about getting someone to continue on that. Perhaps that’s a good idea. And as for Plutarch, a lot are available on the "Little Sailing" website. Very handy.
I thought I had heard somewhere that those texts were out of bounds. That is so uncool. Looks like Eusebius is going to go on that list to digitize.
Mike Aubrey 2009-01-04 11:18:34
Yeah, Little Sailing is pretty great.
I think Carl Conrad keeps a running list of texts online, you might want to ask him, too.
Eric 2009-01-04 11:27:22
Occasionally he drops by. Perhaps he’ll leave a note or two.
Joshua 2009-01-05 04:26:17
My oh my, anything from Origen or Clement of Alexandria that hasn’t been digitized or translated would be a blessing!
Mike Aubrey 2009-01-16 05:35:15
Of course, on Eusebius, if you wanted to take the time to type it out a number of his PG volumes (4 out of 6) are on Google Books:
http://www.luc.edu/faculty/mhooker/google_books-bible_judaism_christianity.html#migne_PG