Perseus Project
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Perseus Project is a digital library project of Tufts University that assembles digital collections of humanities resources. It is hosted by the Department of Classics.
The project was founded in 1987 to collect and present materials for study of ancient Greece. It has published two CD-ROMs and established the Perseus Digital Library on the World Wide Web in 1995. The project has expanded its original scope; current collections cover Greco-Roman classics, the English Renaissance, the papers of Edwin Bolles, and the history of Tufts University.
The editor-in-chief of the project is Gregory Crane, the Tufts Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship. He has been editor-in-chief since the founding of the Perseus Project.
Ancient Greek works in Perseus are stored as beta code, though they can be reformatted for display into a variety of transcription systems.
See also: List of digital library projects
[edit] Copyright status
The Perseus Project claims[1] copyright on texts that are already in the public domain. The legal status of this claim is trivial: see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp..
[edit] See also
- Stoa Consortium
- Digital Classicist
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
[edit] External links and references
- The Perseus Project
- Chicago Hopper site
- Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin 1996 Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-06956-1 A text written by Prof. Martin to accompany the Perseus Project on-line resources.
