CroALa - a collection of words through a set of lists

A talk at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies (LBI), Innsbruck, Austria, 11 Sept 2012.

• www.ffzg.unizg.hr/klafil/croala: CroALa's home page
• CroALa's search form (to be explained)

• Libraries: BSB Digital, Gallica
• Searchable, “dirty” OCR: Google Books
• A neo-Latinist's bookshelf: CAMENA
• A philologist's work desk: Perseus Digital Library

Projects similar to CroALa — expose the fulltext side:

• Musisque Deoque / Poeti d' Italia in lingua latina
• Classical Latin Texts of the Packard Humanities Institute

• Alps in CroALa
• A bibliographic search: Alps in poetry
• Alps in poetry, by author

• Thematic searches in CroALa
• Experiment: transforming an index into a list of CroALa searches
• Searching CroALa with lists
• Index Graecitatis in CroALa
• Verba longiora Latinitatis posterioris in CroALa
• Loca terrarum in CroALa

what can a digital collection of neo-Latin texts offer somebody who is interested in neo-Latin contribution to politics, religion, mentalities?

First of all, it offers you the challenge: try to formulate what you're researching in strings of characters that can be sent to a computer. This is a significant challenge, but one that can lead — experto credite — to a clearer vision, sometimes even to reinterpretation of your research.

Second, the existing collection of Croatian Latin texts provides a place to test the conclusions reached elsewhere: are they applicable to Croatian Latin?

Third, we can share the system and knowledge so you can build your own collection (it can be a “collection” of a single author, even of a single text). Why is it important? Because if there were more collections built according to the same specifications, comparisons and tests would be much easier. And the results richer.