Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 370.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 22:10:43 +0000
From: "Steve Killings" <steve_killings@hotmail.com>
Subject: Text Explorer
Hello all,
I have been a member of Humanist for some time but have, alas, rarely
contributed to the great discussions. I have been developing (slowly) a
large text database system for Medieval Latin texts which may be of some
interest to Humanist participants. It has now reached a more or less
significant level and I'd like to offer it here to anyone interested. It can
be downloaded at
http://www.commpact.com/TExplorer/
There are two principle elements: the .tdb Encoder and the TE Interface. At
present I am only making the TE Interface available with some sample texts
as I hope to integrate build, view and edit functions in later builds. The
texts available are:
1.Biblia Vulgata cum Glossa Ordinaria: Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam
Clementinam and the Glossa Ordinaria from the Douay edition. Filesize: (16.0
MB) (n.b. this is a monster database with over 1.3 million words. It is the
prototype db for this system)
2.Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor: Filesize: (4.12 MB) (255,107
words)
3.St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei: Filesize: (3.69 MB) (300,047 words)
4.Medieval Latin Verse - Carmina Burana: Filesize: (1.11 MB) (38,027 words)
The TE Interface includes some functionality taken over from the TACT system
(namely Collocates) and some standard Contextual Search and Browsing
features. Some additional features include Word Frequencies and the ability
to find word definitions using the on-line Lewis and Short Dictionary at
Tufts. The program can save collocates, search results and browse text in
Plain Text, Rich Text, MS Excel 97 and HTML.
I welcome function requests and bug reports.
Enjoy!
-Steve Killings
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