Session 12: Historical Sources

Date: Thursday, December 15, 2016, 16h00 (UK time)

Session coordinator: Monica Berti (University of Leipzig)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/sVpwBoXtFHM

###Summary In this session students will work with historical sources that are lost in the original form but still extant as quotations and text reuses in later texts. These sources are called textual fragments and they belong to the so called fragmentary literature. The session will focus on Greek historical fragments and students will work with the collection of the Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG).

###Outline

• the DFHG collection: contents and features;
• searching the DFHG collection;
• digging the DFHG collection;
• exporting DFHG citations (CTS and CITE URNs);
• integrating the DFHG collection with external resources;
• DFHG OCR editing;
• DFHG API;
• exporting DFHG data.

###Required reading

• DFHG Project description: http://www.dfhg-project.org

###Further readings

• Berti, M. et al. (2016). "The Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS)". In Digital Methods and Classical Studies. Ed. N.W. Bernstein and N. Coffee. DHQ Themed Issue 10(2)

###Essay title

Discuss, with reference to one case study (e.g., by choosing one author), contents, features and search results that can be obtained by using the DFHG collection of Greek historical fragments.

###Practical exercise

• Search the DFHG collection by higlighting Greek and Latin words with the mouse in the DFHG main page and/or by searching words directly in the search tool.
• Use the DFHG Digger to filter the collection according to authors, works, work sections, and book numbers.
• Export DFHG citations by selecting a portion of text holding down the ALT-key (for instructions please read the DFHG Project description).
• Correct OCR mistakes using the “edit” function through the search functions (for instructions please read the DFHG Project description).
• Query the DFHG API with author names and fragment numbers.