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Gottskálk Jensson: Ummyndanir klassískra orðasafna
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Lykilorð
klassískar orðabækur, klassískir textar, textafræði, íslenska, tölvuvinnsla í hugvísind-
um
Keywords
classical dictionaries, classical texts, philology, Icelandic, computing in the human-
ities
Abstract
Most Ancient Greek and Latin lexica, as well as classical text editions, are still valid
scholarly works, over 70 years after they were published. Which has given classical
scholars, unentangled by copyright issues and the related extra costs, a considerable
advantage in applying the latest hardware technologies, and developing new soft-
ware for the transformation of this old—although not out-of-date—printed material,
into electronic textual bodies, for the purpose of scholarly research. Thus, paradoxi-
cally, computing in the Ancient Greek and Latin classics, especially in North Amer-
ican universities, has been cutting-edge for decades. This paper describes the most
important existing classics sites on the Internet (The Perseus Project and TLG), dis-
cusses in some detail the theoretical implications of the new technology, provides a
demonstration of the kind of research made possible through connecting texts and
lexica by means of parsing scripts, and speculates about possible future projects in
the context of Icelandic literature in Latin.
Gottskálk Jensson
Háskóla íslands
Aðalbyggingu
IS-101 Reykjavík
gthj@hi.is