Editing Perseus Digital Library (section)

=== Collections ===
The Perseus Digital Library contains online collections on the Humanities pertaining to different subjects. 
The main collection focuses on the classical materials of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and features an extensive number of texts written in Ancient Greek and Latin chosen for their status as a canonical literary text, in a degree of completeness and representativeness no other digital library can claim.{{R|Lang}} It has however been noted that the materials that weren't included on account on not being traditionally studied are further devalued by the lack of representation.{{R|Lang}}

The library does not only host primary readings. Partnerships with museums allowed it to build a consequent collection of artifacts which showcases pictures of coins, sculptures, vases, but also gems, buildings and sites, as well as information concerning the context of artifact and its current location.{{R|"Official Website"}}{{R|"Perseus Youtube"}}
Moreover, Perseus includes commentaries and translations that are free of copyright. However, to be free of copyright, texts have to be sufficiently old, and, as a result, Classics scholars have insisted that the commentaries and translations provided by Perseus cannot be used in an academical setting due to their age and the existence of more recent editions for the most often researched texts.{{R|Lang}}

Although the classical section is the most complete and established of the website, the Perseus Digital Library is not limited to this collection, and has branched throughout its existence into other categories of knowledge.
Materials on early modern English literature are as such available, and used to be called the Perseus Garner.{{R|Wulfman}} They consisted of a heterogeneous compilation of primary materials from the early modern period in England, as well as selected secondary materials from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, comprising the works of [[Christopher Marlowe]], the Globe Shakespeare, volumes from the New Variorum Shakespeare Series, [[Raphael Holinshed|Raphael Holinshed's]] Chronicles, [[Richard Hakluyt|Richard Hakluyt's]] Voyages and the rhetorical works of [[Henry Peacham (born 1546)|Henry Peacham]] and [[Thomas Wilson (rhetorician)|Thomas Wilson]], among other primary sources. Several reference works, include glossaries and lexicons, are also included.{{R|Wulfman}} This collection of texts has however been criticized for its choices of inclusion, and described as neither balanced nor complete, and texts not included are devalued by their absence.{{R|Lang}}

Records from [[American Memory]], a corpus of electronic versions of the [[Library of Congress]] archival collections related to the cultural heritage of the United States, were harvested in order to offer a collection on the history of the 19th-century United States.{{R|Preece-Zepeda}} This third-party collection was further completed by materials on the [[American Civil War]]. This sub-collection, as well as materials on the Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin and the [[Richmond Times Dispatch]], are regarded as fairly complete due to their narrow subject.

Perseus also hosts a variety of documents on the study of [[Germanic people]], such as [[Beowulf]] and a variety of sagas in [[Old Norse]] along with translations.{{R|"Official Website"}} This sub-section has been described as fairly good, considering that this field of research is less well researched than the other.{{R|Lang}}

Finally, the Perseus Digital Library hosts [[Arabic]] materials, but its selection is limited to the [[Quran]] and dictionaries.{{R|Lang}}{{R|"Official Website"}}

The Library used to host the Bolles Collection of the [[History of London]], a digitized recreation of an existing special collection homogeneous in theme but heterogeneous in content, which interlinks maps of London, relevant texts, and historical and contemporary illustrations of the city.{{R|"Digital Humanities Companion"}} The collection got transferred to the [[Tufts Digital Library]]. The same can be said of the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri and the history of Tufts, which used to be on the website as well (Perseus). A section on the history of mechanics also used to be present on Perseus.{{R|Preece-Zepeda}}