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Dagmar Van Engen Introduction to Advanced Research 6-7-2011

Dagmar Van Engen Introduction to Advanced Research 6-7-2011. Greek and Roman Materials Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser Arabic Materials Germanic Materials 19 th Century American Renaissance Materials Richmond Times Dispatch. Collections. Entries .

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Dagmar Van Engen Introduction to Advanced Research 6-7-2011

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  1. Dagmar Van Engen Introduction to Advanced Research 6-7-2011

  2. Greek and Roman Materials • Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser • Arabic Materials • Germanic Materials • 19th Century American • Renaissance Materials • Richmond Times Dispatch Collections

  3. Entries

  4. Reading more than one sentence at a time Well, what does “in principio” mean?

  5. Latin Word Study Tool

  6. The dictionary entry ?

  7. I can’t read this in Latin . . .

  8. It comes in English, too!

  9. Texts that reference this chapter:

  10. Search Me

  11. Wait, there’s more: the map function

  12. Places

  13. Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander The Historical SparkNotes

  14. So how about English literature?

  15. The Renaissance Collection • Shakespeare • Spenser • Marlowe • Bacon • James I • Lanyer

  16. Places in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

  17. More about Kentucky

  18. Search for person, place, or date

  19. The Germanic Collection

  20. Oh, yeah, there’s Beowulf . . . but no vocabulary help!

  21. I don’t speak Old English.

  22. Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser

  23. Pots and Paintings: Berlin F 2531

  24. Accuracy • Currency • Purpose • Audience • Coverage • Style and Functionality Assessing Perseus

  25. Lots of Civil War texts in 19th Century American Collection – especially Confederate (“The Great Rebellion”?) • Greek and Roman section has translations for almost everything. Good for catching up on classical references. • Visual location bar is fun • Easy to skip between original and translated text Perseus is wonderful because . . .

  26. Plenty of search functions • Can search for a person or a place across all the Perseus texts • References to the text in other Perseus texts are easily accessible • Google maps for Thucydides and Livy Perseus is wonderful because . . .

  27. Old English texts • Old English language help • Up-to-date Greek and Latin dictionaries • Early Modern materials • People and place searches for texts • Text on one page: viewing a whole text at one time I wish Perseus had more . . .

  28. “Fourth-generation collections integrate not only . . . text and the original page images but also other forms of annotation (e.g., morphological and syntactic analysis, indices of people and places, markup for the particular sense of particular words in context).” • “We are . . . preparing to convert a range of such print resources into structured, machine-actionable form including lexica, grammars, commentaries, editions, editions of surviving texts and editions of fragmentary authors.” Thoughts and Questions

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