Diogenes
Diogenes is a desktop/laptop application for searching together with browsing the legacy databases of texts inwards Latin together with ancient Greek that were 1 time published on CD-ROM past times the TLG together with the PHI. (NB. These databases are non distributed amongst Diogenes together with must hold upwards obtained separately.)
Diogenes is a projection of the Department of Classics together with Ancient History, Durham University.
Version 4
Version four of Diogenes (released tumble 2019) represents a major overhaul of the software; all users are advised to upgrade. Previous versions of Diogenes are 32-bit software, then they volition accept stopped working nether the Catalina release of OS X.
New Features inwards Version 4
- Browser Component
- Previously, Version three of Diogenes included a browser factor (xulrunner) drawn from the Mozilla project. Unfortunately, this factor is no longer supported. Version four integrates a completely novel browser front-end (Electron), which is based upon Google Chrome. This major alter has enabled the elimination of many bugs together with the implementation of additional features.
- User Interface
- The interface has been modernised together with made easier to use, amongst improve usage hints. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 issue of oftentimes requested novel features accept been added, such every bit the mightiness to create a quick search inside 1 writer without having to showtime define a subset of texts containing that author.
- XML Export
- Texts tin forcefulness out hold upwards exported every bit TEI-compliant XML for usage amongst other text-analysis software. The evolution of his functionality was sponsored past times the DigiLibLT project. Exported texts validate against a sum TEI schema (see the notes on XML output).
- TLL integration
- PDFs of the impress version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae accept been made freely available from the website of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, together with if yous accept downloaded them, Diogenes provides a link to the right page of the right book of that dictionary for each Latin give-and-take that has an entry. If yous accept non nevertheless downloaded the files, Diogenes provides a facility to attention create this.
- Corrected LSJ
- Diogenes immediately includes past times default the version of the LSJ Greek Lexicon from Perseus amongst errors corrected past times the Logeion project.
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