We've previously blogged about the project and still plan to explore a number of technical topics related to it in subsequent blog posts but this presentation gives an overview of the project.
Description
The Scaife Viewer is a new open-source reading environment for the Perseus Digital Library, developed as part of the Open Greek and Latin Project. This seminar will provide a tour of the Scaife Viewer, explain the underlying architecture and technologies used, describe how texts can be prepared for inclusion, and how people can contribute to the code.
Outline
- History and Motivation
- UI Tour Part 1
- The Text Pipeline
- CTS, CapiTainS, and Nautilus
- Architectural Overview
- UI tour part 2
- The Widget Architecture
- Technologies used
- Some code examples
- How to Contribute
- Roadmap for Future Work
Links
- Open Greek and Latin Project
- Scaife Viewer
- About the Scaife Viewer
- CapiTainS Guidelines
- Scaife Viewer Source Code
- Ways to Contribute
If you're interested in digitial classics or digital humanities in general, it's well worth checking out SunoikisisDC as there's a really wonderful collection of talks and many have rich readings and exercises to do to really learn more about the topics.
And if you're a Django, Python and/or Vue.js developer, we'd love to see you join us on the Scaife project.