Digital Classical Philology Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution

• Main Author: Berti, Monica
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2019; De Gruyter Saur; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Edition: 1
• Series: Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft
• Subjects: accessability; Ancient history; Computational and corpus linguistics; COMPUTERS / Computer Science; COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General; Digital Humanities; Digital Philology; General history of ancient world; Greek; Griechisch; History; HISTORY / Ancient / General; History and Archaeology; Impact of science and technology on society; Information; Language and Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Latein; Latin; Library & Information Science; library and information sciences; Library and information sciences / Museology; Linguistics; Mathematics and Science; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Science: general issues; Griechisch; Latin; Digital Humanities; Digital Philology; Greek; Latein
• ISBN: 3110599570; 9783110599572; 9783110596786; 3110596784; 9783110596991; 3110596997
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110599572

The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to information. Yet in reality, there are multifarious hurdles to information access – whether physical, economic, intellectual, linguistic, political, or technical. Thus, while new methods and practices for making information accessible arise on a daily basis, we are nevertheless confronted by limitations to information access in various domains. This new book series assembles academics and professionals in various fields in order to illuminate the various dimensions of information's inaccessability. While the series discusses principles and techniques for transcending the hurdles to information access, it also addresses necessary boundaries to accessability. This book describes the state of the art of digital philology with a focus on ancient Greek and Latin. It addresses problems such as accessibility of information about Greek and Latin sources, data entry, collection and analysis of Classical texts and describes the fundamental role of libraries in building digital catalogs and developing machine-readable citation systems.