Volume 34, Number 1, March 2014 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized March 2014 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Volume 34, Number 2, June 2014 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized June 2014 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Digital Classical Philology

The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to information. Yet in reality, there are multifarious hurdles to information access – whether physical, economic, intellectual, linguistic, political, or technical. Thus, while new methods and practices for making information accessible arise on a daily basis, we are nevertheless confronted by limitations to information access in various domains. This new book series assembles academics and professionals in various fields in order to illuminate the various dimensions of information's inaccessability. While the series discusses principles and techniques for transcending the hurdles to information access, it also addresses necessary boundaries to accessability.This book describes the state of the art of digital philology with a focus on ancient Greek and Latin. It addresses problems such as accessibility of information about Greek and Latin sources, data entry, collection and analysis of Classical texts and describes the fundamental role of libraries in building digital catalogs and developing machine-readable citation systems

Not Scotch, but Rum: The Scope and Diffusion of the Scottish Presence in the Published Record

This report will be of interest to libraries responsible for collecting and preserving their country's contribution to the published record, as well as to scholars interested in exploring how countries manifest and transmit their cultural heritage through the published record.Key findings:A national presence in the published record is composed of materials published in or about a country or by its peopleA national presence in the published record is identifiable in library data using mainly automated processingThe Scottish presence in the published record includes nearly two million distinct publicationsThe Scottish presence in the published record is widely held in library collections around the worldScottish authors are especially influential in global diffusion of Scottish presence in published recordTreasure Island may be the most globally influential Scottish work in the published recordTartan Noir and works about/set in Scotland are key ways Scotland is manifested in contemporary worksThe national presence in the published record is a useful concept for libraries and scholar

Volume 35, Number 2, June 2015 OLAC Newsletter

Digitized June 2015 issue of the OLAC Newsletter

Alphabetical Order, the Dewey Decimal System, and Google

Read on Tuesday February 21, 2006 at the regular meeting of the Indianapolis Literary Club, Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, IndianaThe paper discusses the response to the invention of printing, the industrialization of printing and the development of the Internet in terms of using various strategies to organize and access information

Towards a Model of (Variant) Readings

In scholarly editing, more particularly in the context of collating various versions of a text, the definition of a variant reading is crucial. Yet, despite its importance, the meaning of a variant reading is often reduced to a “difference.” The reason for such a vague definition is that what makes a variant can largely depend on the field of study: scholars of the Homeric oral tradition will consider different variants from scholars of medieval traditions or early printed texts, or from genetic critics. This contribution will focus on the modelling of a reading, arguing that formalizing this concept is necessary in order to define, and thus model, a variant. This article will also address digital representation of a reading by focusing on one implementation: the JSON data format used in conjunction with collation programs such as CollateX