Welcome to the Perseus Digital Library's CapiTainS environment.

Perseus is bringing its primary source texts into CTS and EpiDoc TEI compliance in the context of the efforts on the Perseids Project, which is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and of the Open Philology Project, which is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at Leipzig.

Why CTS? "Canonical Text Services (“CTS”) is a component of the pioneering CITE architecture developed by the Homer Multitext Project. CTS offers several advantages. In brief, CTS URNs allow us to produce a semantically meaningful identifier which represents the position of a text in the hierarchy in which it is traditionally cited. This same identifier scheme can also be used to cite into the text at the passage level, within a specific version or instance of that text, or within the notional work the text represents. This permits more precise, refined citation of textual sources and provides a basis for better text alignment, text retrieval, and citation.

CapiTainS is a suite of tools and guidelines for the CTS standards. The user interface provided here is an extension of the Nemo Flask application and the texts are served by the Nautilus CTS provider. Texts are updated directly from the PerseusDL canonical github repositories as they pass tests in the Hook Continuous Integration environment.

How does this work relate to the current version of Perseus? Tufts University and the Perseus team are committed to maintaining Perseus 4.0 as is. The CapiTainS environment, developed through the support of the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig, offers a means of demonstrating the on-going text conversion efforts as we move towards a contributor-based model of publication. It is our hope that this environment will provide the basis for further collaboration within the digital classics and digital humanities communities.

For further information, suggestions for improvement, or error reports, please create a GitHub issue in the appropriate repository or contact Perseus via email. Repository names correspond with the collection name. For instance, Latin is canonical-latinLit; Ancient Greek is canonical-greekLit.