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What's New at ARTFL
- We are pleased to announce the release , in collaboration with Service d'analyse de texte par ordinateur (ATO) , of a PhiloLogic4 implementation the Procès verbaux du Comité d’Instruction publique for both the Assemblée législative and the Convention nationale, 1791-1795. (11/24)
- We are delighted to announce the release of the John Carter Brown Library Haiti Collection, which was built using a combination of OCR and LLM-powered OCR correction. (7/24) As part of the same preliminary project, we have also released Philologic builds of the Brown French Collection and the Maryland French pamphlet collection (11/24)
- We are happy to announce the release of Jacques Savary des Brûlons' Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce, our first digital edition built using a combination of OCR and LLM-powered OCR correction. (4/24)
- The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the release of a new image-based exploration tool for Montaigne's Bordeaux copy of the Essais, which allows users to navigate through high resolution images of this edition and examine the extensive hand-written notes and corrections Montaigne made to his original text. (12/23)
- The ARTFL Project is happy to announce a new search and display interface for the high-resolution Encyclopédie plate images contained in volumes 18 through 28.
- In collaboration with the Observatoire des textes, des idées et des corpus (ObTIC) team at the Sorbonne, we are pleased to announce the first-ever PhiloLogic build of the Très Grande Bibliothèque (TGB) corpus. The TGB is a collection of documents from the Gallica digital library at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The corpus we are making available contains 112,907 texts published primarily in the 19th century. (12/22)
- You can now view a recorded talk given at the CIFNAL Speaker Series discussing our French collections and the computational methods we've developed to explore them. (2/22)
- In collaboration with Professor Dan Edelstein of Stanford University, the ARTFL Project is pleased to announce an initial release of the Oeuvres complètes de Maximilien Robespierre, a digital edition of the ten-volume complete works of Maximilien Robespierre published between 1910 and 1967 by the Société des études Robespierristes. We look forward to enhancing the collection's feature set in the months to come. (9/21)
- We have updated the Commonplace Cultures Web application to address a number of stability and functional issues. The new version can be accessed at the same URL as before: https://commonplacecultures.uchicago.edu. (8/21)
- The ARTFL Project has created a database to allow bibliographic searching across all of the text collections we have running under PhiloLogic. The database includes records for approximately 90 public and restricted access collections in nearly a dozen languages. Search results contain links to texts and the text collections. We will continue to update the database as we bring more collections online. Please see the PhiloLogic Federated Bibliography Search page to conduct a search.
- The ARTFL Project is happy to announce the initial release of the Intertextual Hub thanks to support from a Level II Digital Advancement grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Intertextual Hub is an experimental digital humanities reading environment that aims to situate specific documents in their broader context of intertextual relations, whether in the form of direct or indirect borrowings, shared topics with other texts or parts of texts, or other kinds of lexical similarity. Thus, the Intertextual Hub allows users to navigate between individual and larger groups of texts that are related through shared themes, ideas, and passages.
You can access the Intertextual Hub here: https://intertextual-hub.uchicago.edu/
For more information on the project: https://intertextual-hub.org/
- Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) and Glenn Roe (Sorbonne) are pleased to announce the publication of their new book Voltaire's Correspondence: Digital Readings, (Cambridge University Press). We used a host of ARTFL resources and tools to explore the more than 21,000 letters in the Voltaire corpus at both close and distant reading scales, see related Voltaire Foundation blog post. (10/20)
- The ARTFL Encyclopédie features prominently in the recent Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volume, Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies edited by Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe. Also of note is the chapter by Clovis Gladstone and Charles Cooney that outlines current research on ARTFL's Digging into Data project Commonplace Cultures. (7/20)
- ARTFL, en partenariat avec Anne Simonin, Pierre Serna et Yann Arzel Durelle-Marc, sont heureux d’annoncer l’ouverture du site La Loi de la Révolution Française 1789-1799. Ce projet réunit pour la première fois les collections dites « Baudouin » et « du Louvre », les deux premiers recueils officiels de législation de la France. Cette mise en ligne donne aux juristes la possibilité d’avoir facilement accès, pour la première fois, à l’ensemble de l’œuvre législative de la Révolution (1789-1799), et contribuera sans doute à une meilleure compréhension non seulement de la Révolution elle-même, mais aussi des institutions juridiques qui y puisent leur origine. (7/20)
- In collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford, we are happy to announce the release of the TOUT d'Holbach PhiloLogic database, the first publicly available collection of the vast majority of d’Holbach’s works. (3/20)
- In partnership with Le groupe Θ (Théorie et histoire de l’esthétique, du technique et des arts) at the Centre Jean Pépin UMR 8230 with the support of the ENS / PSL , we continue to add to the Encyclopédie Méthodique database. Volumes in Philosophie ancienne et moderne, Théologie, Encyclopédiana, and Assemblée nationale constituante have recently been digitized. In all, we now have some 34 volumes of text and plates available. (02/20)
- The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce that the full text of the second volume of the fourth edition (1741) of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia is now available for consultation. with volume one, via PhiloLogic4 LINK. This digitization effort, which proceeds from high-quality page images provided by the University of Chicago Library, builds on work carried out by the ARTFL Project over a decade ago to provide search functionality within a "dirty-OCR" version of the first edition (1728) of the Cyclopaedia. (01/20)
- We have implemented a new version of the FRC combining PhiloLogic, Ranked Relevance and Topic Model browsing. Please consult our post Modeling Revolutionary Discourse on the ARTFL blog for information and access to this build.
- The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the award of a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement grant for 2019-2020. The Intertextual Bridges: Search and Navigation across Heterogeneous Collections project will work to develop a prototype platform that will allow scholars to combine distant and close reading methods to discover relationships between texts and identify texts in collections for further study. (12/19)
- Building on the success of Android Encyclopédie reader app (see below), the ARTFL Encyclopédie is now also available through a free iOS reader app for iPhones and iPads. (7/19)
- The ARTFL Encyclopédie is now available as an Android reader app. This new version includes a text search and retrieval interface that interacts with the current database of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert running remotely on our servers. Users can do simple word or bibliographic searches and, from search results, link to larger text sections. (3/19)
- We are releasing a text-reuse database of over 40,000 shared passages identified in the ARTFL-Frantext collection. Tracking intellectual influence from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period has never been easier. You can access it here. (12/18)
- As a part of our ongoing efforts to create a searchable, full-text version of the Encyclopédie méthodique, we have developed a new beta resource that merges a number of newly digitized text and plate volumes--Arts academiques, Arts et metiers mecaniques, and Manufactures--with the previously released Architecture and Beaux-Arts volumes. (12/18)
- We are pleased to announce the release of two large-scale text-reuse databases within the context of our work on evaluating the legacy of the French Enlightenment on 19th century print culture. This project would not have been possible without the support of the Mellon Foundation, and the release by the BNF of 130,000 texts from their digital collection. In addition, we are also releasing TextPAIR, the sequence alignment package that we developed in the context of this project. (11/18)
- The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce that the full text of the first volume of the fourth edition (1741) of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia is now available for consultation via PhiloLogic4 HERE. The second volume is in preparation and is expected to be available within a few months. This new digitization effort, which proceeds from high-quality page images provided by the University of Chicago Library, builds on work carried out by the ARTFL Project nearly a decade ago to provide search functionality within a "dirty-OCR" version of the first edition (1728) of the Cyclopaedia. (11/18)
- The incredible richness of the Newberry Library’s French Revolution collection has long been known. The challenge, of course, has been to be able to explore it. In 2016-17, the Newberry Library’s French Revolution Pamphlets put online the complete digitized version of these archives. ARTFL is proud to introduce it under the power of PhiloLogic4's research capabilities. The build we are releasing to the public should be considered as work in progress, but we believe that we have reached a point where public availability will be of use. Click HERE for more information on this joint project and links to the latest installation. (3/18)
- As part of the larger 'Digitizing Raynal' project, design experts Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe from the ANU School of Art & Design, in collaboration with ARTFL and Glenn Roe at the ANU Centre for Digital Humanities Research, have developed a 'generous interface' that allows users to visualise textual changes (deletions, insertions, transpositions) across the 1770, 1774, and 1780 editions of the Histoire des deux Indes. Visit Visualising Raynal. (2/18)
- ARTFL Project researchers have published an article about the work recently undertaken to expand and modernize the Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF). Please find "Le Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française, un dictionnaire communautaire" in Repères DoRiF n. 14 - Dictionnaires, culture numérique et décentralisation de la norme dans l’espace francophone. (12/17)
- In collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford, we are happy to announce an updated release of the TOUT Voltaire database, now running under PhiloLogic4. We are also working closely with the newly-established Voltaire Lab to construct PhiloLogic4 version of Voltaire's extensive correspondance, which when added to his complete works, will represent one of the largest single-author textual databases available for research. (12/17)
- The ARTFL Project is happy to announce the release of PhiloReader App for Android devices. PhiloReader is a text search and retrieval interface that interacts with digitized text collections running under PhiloLogic4 on the ARTFL Project’s servers at the University of Chicago. This version of the app allows users to query and read texts from a range of collections that contain a variety of documents (dictionaries, newspapers, literary works, historical texts, etc) from a variety of languages, including Japanese, German, French, English, Sanskrit and other Indic languages. In the coming months, we will make available more reader apps that focus on specific collections or languages. More information and the App is available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ExpPhilo4Reader.app (11/17)
- The ARTFL Encyclopédie is now available under our next generation corpus analysis system PhiloLogic4. This new release offers many new features, functionalities and improvements. The powerful new faceted search and browse capabilities offered by PhiloLogic4 allow users better to leverage the organizational structure of the Encyclopédie -- classes of knowledge, authors, headwords, volumes, and the like. Further it gives them the possibility of exploring the interesting alternatives offered by algorithmically or machine generated classes. The collocation searches generate word-clouds or word lists that are clickable to obtain immediately concordances for any of the words. This release also contains:
- A beautiful new set of high-resolution plate images that can be viewed in clickable thumb-nail versions leading to larger images that can be viewed in much greater detail than was previously possible. We would like to thank the University of Chicago Library for providing these images.
- Biographies of the encyclopédistes directly accessible by simply clicking the name of the author of any given article. This information is drawn directly from Frank and Serena Kafker’s The Encyclopédists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of Authors of the Encyclopédie made available to us as part of our collaborative relationship with the Voltaire Foundation of the University of Oxford.
- Improvements such as some new author attributions, various corrections and better cross-referencing functionality. (11/17)
- The Digital South Asia Library program at the University of Chicago, in collaboration with The ARTFL Project, is pleased to announce the release of nearly a dozen dictionary apps for Android mobile devices, available on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Digital+South+Asia+Library,+University+of+Chicago
Languages represented include Tamil, both contemporary and Old Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Modern Nepali. A dictionary for Pashto includes audio files of headwords and many example sentences. More South Asian dictionary apps with audio files will be released in the near future for languages such as Kashmiri and Khowar. (5/2017)
We are pleased to announce the addition of Marat's Journal de la République française and Le Publiciste de la République française to the ARTFL Project edition of his L'ami du peuple which are available as Les journaux de Marat. We would like to thank the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley, which provided the page images journals and the Stanford University Library, which provided funds for data entry. (3/2017)
We are pleased to announce the release, in collaboration with Stanford University, the Archives Parlementaires under PhiloLogic4. The Archives parlementaires is a chronologically-ordered edited collection of archival and published sources on the French Revolution covering the first five years of the French Revolution, from the Cahiers des états généraux of 1789 until 15 nivôse an II (4 January 1794).
ARTFL is happy to announce the release of L'histoire des deux Indes by l'Abbé Raynal (1/17). This digital edition fully leverages the new functionality built into PhiloLogic4.
ARTFL is happy to announce the official rollout of PhiloLogic4, our next-generation search engine (1/17). This update will enhance the current user experience and bring new features to all of our databases. In addition to new search features, we are using this opportunity to upgrade databases in various ways. Our newly released version of Théâtre classique, for example, has been upgraded with 120 additional texts as well as enhanced metadata access support. We will post news of significant upgrades as we migrate to PhiloLogic4.
ARTFL is delighted to announce version 2.0 of our Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF) (1/17). This is a much improved version that includes the following enhancements:
- a brand new web UI that works just as well on desktop computers, tablets, and phones;
- much faster performance and rock solid stability;
- collocations and word associations, and many more examples from the francophone world.
ARTFL est heureux d’annoncer l’ouverture du site de la collection de décrets révolutionnaires dite collection Baudouin numérisée : https://collection-baudouin.univ-paris1.fr. Ce projet, financé par l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), a été initié par Anne Simonin (CNRS, Université de Paris I) en partenariat avec Pierre Serna (Université de Paris I, Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution Française). L’ANR RevLoi (acronyme du projet) a bénéficié de la collaboration des Archives Nationales.
ARTFL is very pleased to have been awarded a third-round Digging into Data grant in partnership with the University of Oxford's e-Research Centre, generously funded by the NEH and JISC. The project, "Commonplace Cultures: Mining Shared Passages in the 18th Century using Sequence Alignment and Visual Analytics", aims to explore 18th-century literary culture from the perspective of the "commonplace," and through the concerted application of sequence alignment algorithms for shared passage detection and large-scale visual analytics on the largest collection of 18th-century works ever assembled. Updates on the project's progress can be found on the project website: http://commonplacecultures.org/. (1/14)
Our colleagues at the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes project have recently added a post about their use of PhiloLogic to their blog. The post includes a video that demonstrates the use of PhiloLogic in their Epistemon database. (12/13)
ARTFL is currently developing the next generation of its search and retrieval tool, PhiloLogic. To see PhiloLogic4 in action, please visit our PhiloLogic4 Beta Test of the ARTFL edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. We are particularly interested in hearing from our user community about this new interface, and welcome users to provide general feedback by using the PhiloLogic4 Feedback Form. (9/13)
A new full-text version of the Rousseau Online database, is now available for advanced search and analysis under PhiloLogic -- an extension of rousseauonline.ch, the digital edition of Rousseau's Collection complète des Œuvres published under a Creative Commons Licence, and released in 2012 by infoclio.ch, the Swiss portal for historical sciences, in cooperation with Prof. J.M. Gallanar and the e-rara.ch. (9/13)
The ARTFL Project, in collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford, has recently completed work on the TOUT VOLTAIRE database -- a fully searchable plain text (without critical apparatus or notes) collection of Voltaire's complete writings, the most reliable version of his works available online. (7/13)
We are very pleased to announce that the ARTFL Encyclopédie is now available on the Apple iPad for free download at the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/encyclopedie/id616158118?mt=8. The ARTFL Encyclopédie application for the iPad contains, in the original French, a complete copy of the first edition of this famous work, enabling users to browse its contents from cover to cover, in a manner that would have previously been impossible. The iPad app supports searching and browsing by volume, article, topic or class of knowledge, as well as authors. (3/13)
We are pleased to announce that the Epistemon database, a collection of meticulously tagged poetic and literary texts curated by the Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes Project and hosted at ARTFL, has been updated. This collection, which permits searches to be sorted by an extensive set of bibliographic metadata, now contains 40 texts. (8/12)
ARTFL releases a PhiloLogic implementation of 456 classical French theater texts. Searches can be filtered by date and speaker. (8/12)
We are happy to announce the release of a new database built with high-quality OCR texts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France: La Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique de Grimm et de Diderot. Grimm's newsletter affords a fascinating perspective on the cultural milieu of 18th-century Paris. (6/12)
ARTFL is pleased to announce the release of a new, freely-available full-text electronic edition of Jean-Paul Marat's L'Ami du peuple. This edition consists of the nearly 700 issues of the French Revolutionary newspaper contained in printed volumes at the New York Public Library. We are extremely grateful to the NYPL for providing us with high-quality page images, as well as to the Stanford University Library for providing funds for data entry costs. (3/12)
Thanks to data provided by the University of Oxford Text Archive, we have added 179 new works to the ECCO-TCP database, which now contains 2,387 works, over 75 million words, and 457,513 unique word forms. (3/12)
An article about the CroALa collection's extensive use of PhiloLogic appears in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. (2/12)
The main ARTFL database ARTFL-FRANTEXT has been significantly updated. We have added some 624 new works to the database, which now contains 3,558 texts, 215, 000,000 words and 675,000 unique word forms. The additions include works by Diderot, hundreds of 19th-century novels, and more than 50 major works by Voltaire provided by the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. (12/11)
The final program for the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) is now available at the colloquium website. This annual event, co-sponsored by the University of Chicago's Division of the Humanities, is a great opportunity for researchers in the humanities to come together with computer scientists in order to explore the current state of the field of digital humanities and to identify new avenues for research. The colloquium will be held November19th through the 21st at Loyola University Chicago.
Through a partnership with Le Groupe de recherche international du CNRS "Savoirs artistique et traités d'art de la Renaissance aux Lumières" (STAR) at the Centre Jean Pépin UPR 76, ARTFL has begun the digitization of Panckouke's Encyclopédie méthodique. All volumes devoted to Architecture (2) and Beaux-arts (3) are now available. (10/11)
Thanks to full text provided by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), ARTFL is very pleased to offer a PhiloLogic build of more than 2,200 works in English published during the 18th century. The PhiloLogic ECCO-TCP database contains some 73 million words and is open to the general public. (9/11)
The ARTFL French Women Writers (FWW) Project has recently been updated. We have added some 60 new titles to the database, which now includes 158 individual works, 10.4 million words, and 117,000 unique forms. (8/11)
We have recently completed correcting Volume 1 of the full-text version of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique - removing all of the "$" and "$word$" signs that were left unrecognized by our data entry contractors. We hope to have the remaining three volumes corrected in the coming academic year. (7/11)
Thanks to digital page images provided by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley - we have added 32 new texts to the Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes database, which now contains 284 individual works. (4/11)
As part of the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Program, the ARTFL Project has developed a prototype French language dictionary called the Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF). The DVLF is an experimental approach to dictionary compilation that offers an interactive and community-oriented alternative to traditional methods of French lexicography. Moreover, the DVLF was featured as part of the University of Chicago's article on ARTFL available here. (2/11)
The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the beta release of PhiloLogic 3.2, its open source full-text search and retrieval software. This latest version includes: full 64 bit support and a combined Linux/OS-X download; significantly streamlined compile/installation process; improved MySQL integration; better OS-X support; improved search performance; extensive bug/error fixes (noted on the wiki); and better collocation tables and new collocation clouds. (8/10)
ARTFL's Dictionnaires d'autrefois collection now features full-text searching on all of its dictionaries. Likewise, full-text searching of the Chicago dictionnaires d'autrefois (restricted to the University of Chicago) is also now available. (6/10)
The ARTFL Encyclopédie has been converted to a TEI-conformant encoding scheme and we have enacted another round of text and metadata corrections based on user submissions from our "Report Error" interface. In addition, we have also worked to correct the more than 1,200 author names that were mis-recognized as renvois. (4/10)
ARTFL has made its PAIR (Pairwise Alignment of Intertextual Relations) interface available to its subscribers: The FRANTEXT vs. FRANTEXT form compares all the texts in the corpus against themselves, while the Encyclopédie vs. FRANTEXT form allows users to search for similar passages between the Encyclopédie and the main ARTFL-FRANTEXT database. Standard PhiloLogic search tips apply. The User Submit Form allows users to submit text, either input directly or from files or webpages, which is then compared with the ARTFL-FRANTEXT database. (3/10)
ARTFL subscribers may now query a small database of Works in Translation compiled for testing of our PhiloLine system. Users are encouraged to contact us with any digitized work translated into French for inclusion in this new resource. (2/10)