I'm working on a new website with the objective or provided a modern interface to Greek works. I was hoping to get the word and get some feedback regarding features you would like to see.
I would like to offer many of the features available in apps such as Logos on a free website. The first version is available at http://textcritical.net/.
I'm adding work parsing at the moment and the ability to view the original languages and an English translation side-by-side.
Long-term plans including offering features such as:
eBook creation: ability to create eBooks of selected works. May provide the ability to make "reader's editions" that include the definitions and/or parsing of Greek words inline (e.g. "make me an ebook of Josephi Vita with definitions for all words that occur 10 times or less").
Vocabulary tool: that allows readers to view the most common words in a given text so that you can build up your vocabulary
Word use research: ability to do an analysis of a word to determine if the word or phrase is commonly used by the author or other authors, etc.
Crowd-sourced parsing: so that readers of the site can select sections of text and agree to provide parsing data beyond that which automated analysis can do (like associating pronouns to the subject/object).
I just uploaded the new version to the server which adds morphological parsing of Greek words. The parsing page is a little slow at the moment but performance will be improved soon once the database indexing is performed.
As for the glosses, I have a database of Greek words in the various forms. The site simply does a lookup for a given form in order to get the information for it. What is nice about this approach is that it allows the site to work with all works even if they don't include the parses within the work itself (almost none do).
Regarding the glosses, I suspect Nigel is asking "whence cometh the database".
Also, it might be useful to be able to annotate a work with all words that occur less than eg. 10 times in *another* work. For example, suppose I know all words that occur more than 10x in the New Testament (alas, I'm not there yet), and wanted to read Xenophon's Anabasis. I'd be able to get a version of the Anabasis which footnotes all words occurring less than 10x in the NT. That could be handy. That's not an "in a hurry" feature, just a "nice to have".
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Tim Nelson
B. Sc. (Computer Science), M. Div. Looking for work (in computing or language-related jobs).
TimNelson wrote:Regarding the glosses, I suspect Nigel is asking "whence cometh the database".
Also, it might be useful to be able to annotate a work with all words that occur less than eg. 10 times in *another* work. For example, suppose I know all words that occur more than 10x in the New Testament (alas, I'm not there yet), and wanted to read Xenophon's Anabasis. I'd be able to get a version of the Anabasis which footnotes all words occurring less than 10x in the NT. That could be handy. That's not an "in a hurry" feature, just a "nice to have".
That sounds a bit odd; it does make me wonder how predictable it is that one will turn from any one item in Greek literature to any other item in Greek literature. I suppose that most BG participants who go on to read other Greek texts do start out with the GNT. I did too, but that was an accident; the following year I was reading Homer and then went on the year after that to read Aristotle and Sophocles. I would think that implementation of such a feature would require some sort of calculation of what's most likely to be read next. How random might that be? Consider the thread Stephen Hughes has started on what to read after Xenophon's Oeconomicus?
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
TimNelson wrote:Regarding the glosses, I suspect Nigel is asking "whence cometh the database".
Also, it might be useful to be able to annotate a work with all words that occur less than eg. 10 times in *another* work. For example, suppose I know all words that occur more than 10x in the New Testament (alas, I'm not there yet), and wanted to read Xenophon's Anabasis. I'd be able to get a version of the Anabasis which footnotes all words occurring less than 10x in the NT. That could be handy. That's not an "in a hurry" feature, just a "nice to have".
That sounds a bit odd; it does make me wonder how predictable it is that one will turn from any one item in Greek literature to any other item in Greek literature. I suppose that most BG participants who go on to read other Greek texts do start out with the GNT. I did too, but that was an accident; the following year I was reading Homer and then went on the year after that to read Aristotle and Sophocles. I would think that implementation of such a feature would require some sort of calculation of what's most likely to be read next. How random might that be? Consider the thread Stephen Hughes has started on what to read after Xenophon's Oeconomicus?
I would prefer glosses that adapt based on the vocabulary you, as an individual, have learned.
And perhaps each principal part should be treated as a separate word for this purpose? That's a thought I've been toying with ...
TimNelson wrote:Regarding the glosses, I suspect Nigel is asking "whence cometh the database".
Tim is echoing my mantra here: If you want to make something public, please publish the data. In source code control, e.g. github. With a public license, e.g. Creative Commons ...
"Your user interface is my silo".
The texts for Luke's site are available in source code control here:
