Editing Perseus Digital Library (section)

=== Use of technology ===
The Perseus Library follows the goal of [[Digital Humanities]], which is to capitalize on the use of modern technology to further research in Classics and facilitate understanding of the material. As such, it uses a variety of tools to enrich the texts it hosts.

One of the way it does so is by automatically linking the texts to additional materials. Interlinks exist between a primary reading, its different versions, and its translations and commentaries. Users can also find maps of places mentioned in the texts as well as a historical timeline, and search tools allow readers to look for a text by its author or the presence of a specific [[lemma (morphology)|lemma]] or word.{{R|Lang}}{{R|Preece-Zepeda}}{{R|"Rydberg-Cox Libraries"}}{{R|Mahoney}}
Perseus also enhanced its texts through TEI-compliant<ref>{{Cite web |title=TEI: Text Encoding Initiative |url=https://tei-c.org/ |access-date=2023-06-19 |website=tei-c.org}}</ref> [[markup language]], which allows each word to be linked to a dictionary entry, a [[Morphology (linguistics)|morphological]] analysis tool known as Morpheus, a [[Word list|word frequency]] tool, and other texts where the word is used.{{R|Lang}}{{R|Wulfman}}{{R|"Rydberg-Cox Libraries"}}
Since the mark-up is automatically generated, older sections of the libraries have been noted to be less rich and complete than newer ones.{{R|Lang}} This structure allows for a machine-readable and searchable environment, and one of Perseus' goals is the automated generation of knowledge through [[text mining|text and data mining]].{{R|Preece-Zepeda}}

Each section of a text and item is also given a stable identifier of 10 digits,{{R|Preece-Zepeda}} which makes citations possible{{R|"Perseus Youtube"}} in the form of four different [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URIs]] (text, citation, work, catalog record) containing [[Uniform Resource Name|URNs]];{{R|Lang}} furthermore, metadata schemes are employed as to make each section or object meaningful outside of the context of the library.{{R|Preece-Zepeda}} Those sections are also given a Creative Commons license indicating conditions of use.{{R|Lang}}
However, one should note the lack of a TEI-header containing bibliographical information and metadata about the respective source, and that such information needs to be searched for on the Perseus Catalog.{{R|Lang}}
 
As a result of the use of this technology, Perseus has been useful to scholars of [[Classics#Philology|classical philology]] and [[Classics#Ancient History|history]] in facilitating the study of the material,{{R|Lang}}{{R|"Rydberg-Cox Acquisition"}} but also to students who have benefited from the various tools the library offers.{{R|Preece-Zepeda}}{{R|Mahoney}}