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CANE workshop: Preparing Free Editions of Classical Texts

Welcome!

Instructors: Neel Smith, Gabe Weaver
Daily class: ca. 45 presentation, 30 minutes of "lab" time.
Week-long project: prepare an XML version of one Life of Cornelius Nepos
Collective project: collection of Lives available as printable PDFs, and as interactive web site with automatic links to morphological analyses.

Course contents

Why choices of technologies and licenses affect your freedom
Markup technologies to structure texts
Licenses to ensure freedom in scholarly use of texts

For the first session

Please skim background reading for main ideas.

Course materials and editions of ancient texts on this web site are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

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