Samuel Huskey, The Digital Latin Library: Cataloging and Publishing Critical Editions of Latin Texts
The Digital Latin Library has a two-fold mission: 1) to publish and cu-rate critical editions of Latin texts, of all types, from all eras; 2) to facilitate thefinding and, where openly available and accessible online, the reading of alltexts written in Latin. At first glance, it may appear that the two parts of the mis-sion are actually two different missions, or even two different projects altogether.On the one hand, the DLL seeks to be a publisher of new critical editions, anendeavor that involves establishing guidelines, standards for peer review, work-flows for production and distribution, and a variety of other tasks. On the otherhand, the DLL seeks to catalog existing editions and to provide a tool for findingand reading them, an effort that involves the skills, techniques, and expertise oflibrary and information science. But we speak of a“two-fold mission”becauseboth parts serve the common goal of enriching and enhancing access to Latintexts, and they use the methods and practices of data science to accomplish thatgoal. This chapter will discuss how the DLL’s cataloging and publishing activitiescomplement each other in the effort to build a comprehensive Linked Open Dataresource for scholarly editions of Latin texts.
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