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What's New at ARTFL
- We are happy to announce the release of a new database built with high-quality OCR texts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France: La Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique de Grimm et de Diderot. Grimm's newsletter affords a fascinating perspective on the cultural milieu of 18th-century Paris. (6/12)
- ARTFL is pleased to announce the release of a new, freely-available full-text electronic edition of Jean-Paul Marat's L'Ami du peuple. This edition consists of the nearly 700 issues of the French Revolutionary newspaper contained in printed volumes at the New York Public Library. We are extremely grateful to the NYPL for providing us with high-quality page images, as well as to the Stanford University Library for providing funds for data entry costs. (3/12)
- Thanks to data provided by the University of Oxford Text Archive, we have added 179 new works to the ECCO-TCP database, which now contains 2,387 works, over 75 million words, and 457,513 unique word forms. (3/12)
- An article about the CroALa collection's extensive use of PhiloLogic appears in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. (2/12)
- The main ARTFL database ARTFL-FRANTEXT has been significantly updated. We have added some 624 new works to the database, which now contains 3,558 texts, 215, 000,000 words and 675,000 unique word forms. The additions include works by Diderot, hundreds of 19th-century novels, and more than 50 major works by Voltaire provided by the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. (12/11)
- The final program for the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is now available at the colloquium website. This annual event, co-sponsored by the University of Chicago's Division of the Humanities, is a great opportunity for researchers in the humanities to come together with computer scientists in order to explore the current state of the field of digital humanities and to identify new avenues for research. The colloquium will be held November19th through the 21st at Loyola University Chicago.
- Through a partnership with Le Groupe de recherche international du CNRS "Savoirs artistique et traités d'art de la Renaissance aux Lumières" (STAR) at the Centre Jean Pépin UPR 76, ARTFL has begun the digitization of Panckouke's Encyclopédie méthodique. All volumes devoted to Architecture (2) and Beaux-arts (3) are now available. (10/11)
- Thanks to full text provided by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), ARTFL is very pleased to offer a PhiloLogic build of more than 2,200 works in English published during the 18th century. The PhiloLogic ECCO-TCP database contains some 73 million words and is open to the general public. (9/11)
- The ARTFL French Women Writers (FWW) Project has recently been updated. We have added some 60 new titles to the database, which now includes 158 individual works, 10.4 million words, and 117,000 unique forms. (8/11)
- We have recently completed correcting Volume 1 of the full-text version of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique - removing all of the "$" and "$word$" signs that were left unrecognized by our data entry contractors. We hope to have the remaining three volumes corrected in the coming academic year. (7/11)
- Thanks to digital page images provided by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley - we have added 32 new texts to the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes database, which now contains 284 individual works. (4/11)
- As part of the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Program, the ARTFL Project has developed a prototype French language dictionary called the Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF). The DVLF is an experimental approach to dictionary compilation that offers an interactive and community-oriented alternative to traditional methods of French lexicography. Moreover, the DVLF was featured as part of the University of Chicago's article on ARTFL available here. (2/11)
- The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the beta release of PhiloLogic 3.2, its open source full-text search and retrieval software. This latest version includes: full 64 bit support and a combined Linux/OS-X download; significantly streamlined compile/installation process; improved MySQL integration; better OS-X support; improved search performance; extensive bug/error fixes (noted on the wiki); and better collocation tables and new collocation clouds. (8/10)
- ARTFL's Dictionnaires d'autrefois collection now features full-text searching on all of its dictionaries. Likewise, full-text searching of the Chicago dictionnaires d'autrefois (restricted to the University of Chicago) is also now available. (6/10)
- The ARTFL Encyclopédie has been converted to a TEI-conformant encoding scheme and we have enacted another round of text and metadata corrections based on user submissions from our "Report Error" interface. In addition, we have also worked to correct the more than 1,200 author names that were mis-recognized as renvois. (4/10)
- ARTFL has made its PAIR (Pairwise Alignment of Intertextual Relations) interface available to its subscribers: The FRANTEXT vs. FRANTEXT form compares all the texts in the corpus against themselves, while the Encyclopédie vs. FRANTEXT form allows users to search for similar passages between the Encyclopédie and the main ARTFL-FRANTEXT database. Standard PhiloLogic search tips apply. The User Submit Form allows users to submit text, either input directly or from files or webpages, which is then compared with the ARTFL-FRANTEXT database. (3/10)
- ARTFL subscribers may now query a small database of Works in Translation compiled for testing of our PhiloLine system. Users are encouraged to contact us with any digitized work translated into French for inclusion in this new resource. (2/10)