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Building a digital library: the Perseus project as a case study in the humanities

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DL '96: Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Digital libraries

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https://doi.org/10.1145/226931.226932

Published: 01 April 1996 Publication History

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This paper outlines some of our preliminary findings in the Perseus Project, an on-going digital library on ancient Greek culture that has been under development since 1987.

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Building a digital library: the Perseus project as a case study in the humanities
1. Applied computing
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    1. Digital libraries and archives

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