The Scaife Digital Library Viewer

Sunoikisis Digital Classics Spring/Summer 2018

Session 3. The Scaife Digital Library Viewer

Thursday April 26, 2018, 17h00-18h15 CEST

Convenor: James K. Tauber (Eldarion)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFiNYEDxr-0

Slides

Description

The Scaife Viewer is a new open-source reading environment for the Perseus Digital Library, developed as part of the Open Greek and Latin Project. This seminar will provide a tour of the Scaife Viewer, explain the underlying architecture and technologies used, describe how texts can be prepared for inclusion, and how people can contribute to the code.

Outline

• History and Motivation
• UI Tour Part 1
• The Text Pipeline
• CTS, CapiTainS, and Nautilus
• Architectural Overview
• UI tour part 2
• The Widget Architecture
• Technologies used
• Some code examples
• How to Contribute
• Roadmap for Future Work

Links

• Open Greek and Latin Project
• Scaife Viewer
• About the Scaife Viewer
• CapiTainS Guidelines
• Scaife Viewer Source Code
• Ways to Contribute