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Bibliography of Perseus research articles.
Bibliography of research works by the Perseus staff and articles by others about the Perseus Digital Library, sorted by descending date. (English) (search this work)

Robert F. Chavez, Thomas L. Milbank. London Calling: GIS, VR, and the Victorian Period.
The Bolles Collection of Tufts University represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources on the history and topography of Victorian London. Texts, images, maps, and three-dimensional reconstructions are all interconnected forming a body of material that transcends the limits of print publication and exploits the flexibility of the electronic medium. The Perseus Digital Library has incorporated Geographic Information System and Virtual Reality technologies in a set of tools intended to help readers synthesize and visualize the numerous temporal and spatial interconnections between Bolles Collection materials. The tools, which are applicable to any large assemblage of related documents, also help readers grasp the complex temporal-spatial interactions that shape historical materials in general. (English) (search this work)

Gregory Colati. Collaborative Project: Managing Authority Lists for Customized Linking and Visualization: A Service for the National STEM Digital Library.
We propose two broad classes of service to the NSDL: automatic linking for key words and phrases, and authority control usinga variety of authority lists such as glossaries, encyclopedias, and subject hierarchies. (English) (search this work)

Gregory Crane, Robert F. Chavez, Anne Mahoney, Thomas L. Milbank, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, David A. Smith. Drudgery and Deep Thought: Designing Digital Libraries for the Humanities.
Expanded version of an article in CACM, spring 2001. (English) (search this work)

Gregory Crane. From Greece to Rome: Building a Roman Perseus.
Forthcoming, Journal for the Association of Classical Teachers, 2000. (English) (search this work)

Gregory R. Crane, David A. Smith, Clifford E. Wulfman. Building a Hypertextual Digital Library in the Humanities: A Case Study on London.
This paper describes the creation of a new humanities digital library collection: 11,000,000 words and 10,000 images representing books, images and maps on pre-twentieth century London and its environs. The London collection contained far more dense and precise information than the materials from the Greco-Roman world on which we had previously concentrated. The London collection thus allowed us to explore new problems of data structure, manipulation, and visualization. This paper contrasts our model for how humanities digital libraries are best used with the assumptions that underlie many academic digital libraries on the one hand and more literary hypertexts on the other. Since encoding guidelines such as those from the TEI provide collection designers with far more options than any one project can realize, this paper describes what structures we used to organize the collection and why. We particularly emphasize the importance of mining historical authority lists (encyclopedias, gazetteers, etc.) and then generating automatic span-to-span links within the collection. (English) (search this work)

Gregory R. Crane. Extending a Digital Library: Beginning a Roman Perseus.
This paper describes how the Perseus Project moved from Greece to Rome. (English) (search this work)

Gregory R. Crane, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. New Technology and New Roles: The Need for Corpus Editors.
Digital libraries challenge humanists and other academics to rethink the relationship between technology and their work. At the Perseus Project, we have seen the rise of a new combination of skills. The Corpus Editor manages a collection of materials that are thematically coherent and focused but are too large to be managed solely with the labor-intensive techniques of traditional editing. The corpus editor must possess a degree of domain specific knowledge and technical expertise that virtually no established graduate training provides. This new position poses a challenge to humanists as they train and support members of the field pursuing new, but necessary tasks. (English) (search this work)

Maria Daniels. Is Bigger Better? Web Delivery of High-Resolution Images from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Paper written for the session "Making Data Work: Functional Design Strategies" at Museums and the Web 2000, April 17-19, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, organized by Archives and Museum Informatics. (English) (search this work)

Anne Mahoney. Creating an Infrastructure for Scholarly Publication On Line. (English) (search this work)

Anne Mahoney. Explicit and Implicit Searching in the Perseus Digital Library.
From Information Doors, pre-conference workshop at HT00 conference, San Antonio, May 2000. (English) (search this work)

Anne Mahoney, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, David A. Smith, Clifford E. Wulfman. Generalizing the Perseus XML Document Manager.
The Perseus Digital Library includes tools for morphologicalanalysis; encoding and presentation of lexica; metadata andcataloguing; abstract mapping of various SGML and XML DTDs; and display of document sections. The system was developed for AncientGreek and has been extended to support Latin and Italian. We describehow we are generalizing this document management system for other languagesand for use by other projects. The original implementation did notclearly separate infrastructure from project-specific data and configuration. Determining which data elements, template files, and routines arepart of the system and which are part of the various corpora has helpedus determine what is crucial to the infrastructure of a multi-lingual digitallibrary, which naming conventions and meta-data standards should be sharedamong co-operating projects, and what features can be configurable by individualprojects. One goal of the present work is to make the Perseus DLinfrastructure available as open-source software. (English) (search this work)

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Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, Anne Mahoney, Gregory R. Crane. Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions.
Corpus editions can only be useful to scholars when users know what to expect of the texts. We argue for text quality indicators, both general and domain-specific. (English) (search this work)

David A. Smith, Gregory Crane. Disambiguating Geographic Names in a Historical Digital Library.
Geographic interfaces provide natural, scalable visualizations for many digital library collections, but the wide range of data in digital libraries presents some particular problems for identifying and disambiguating place names. We describe the toponym-disambiguation system in the Perseus digital library and evaluate its performance. Name categorization varies significantly among different types of documents, but toponym disambiguation performs at a high level of precision and recall with a gazetteer an order of magnitude larger than most other applications. (English) (search this work)

David A. Smith, Anne Mahoney, Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox. The Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library.
We describe a generalized toolset developed by the Perseus Project to manage XML documents in the context of a large, heterogeneous digital library. The system manages multiple DTDs through mappings from elements in the DTD to abstract document structures. The abstraction of document metadata, both structural and descriptive, facilitates the development of application-level tools for knowledge management and document presentation. We discuss the implementation of the XML back end and describe applications for cross citation retrieval, toponym extraction and plotting, automatic hypertext generation, morphology, and word co-occurrence. (English) (search this work)