- April 2025: ARTFL is delighted to announce the initial release of the ARTFL Diderot collection, a corpus of over 200 texts by Diderot. We expect to update this collection with new texts on a regular basis.
- March 2025: We are happy to announce the launch of ARTFL's permalink resource, which institutions can use to gai naccess to stable permalinks to all of ARTFL's collections and individual texts.
- February 2025: We are happy to announce the re-release of Roget's Thesaurus.
- November 2024: In collaboration with Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, we are pleased to announce the release of her La Décade philosophique comme système 1794-1807 en 9 volumes under PhiloLogic at ARTFL.
- November 2024: We are pleased to announce the release, in collaboration with Service d'analyse de texte par ordinateur (ATO) , of a PhiloLogic4 implementation of the Procès verbaux du Comité d’Instruction publique for both the Assemblée législative and the Convention nationale, 1791-1795.
- July 2024: 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. As part of the same preliminary project, we have also released Philologic builds of the Brown French Collection and the Maryland French pamphlet collection
- April 2024: 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.
- December 2023: 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.
- December 2022: 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.
- February 2022: 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.
- September 2021: 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.
- August 2021: 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.
- January 2021: 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.
- December 2020: 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/ - October 2020: 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.
- July 2020: 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.
- March 2020: 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.
- February 2020: 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.
- January 2020: 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.
- 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.
- December 2019: 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.
- July 2019: 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.
- March 2019: 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.
- December 2018: 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.
- December 2018: 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.
- November 2018: 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.
- November 2018: 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.
- March 2018: 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.
- February 2018: 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.
- December 2017: 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.
- December 2017: 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.
- November 2017: 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
- November 2017: 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.
- May 2017: 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. - March 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.
- February 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).
- January 2017: ARTFL is happy to announce the official rollout of PhiloLogic4, our next-generation search engine . 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.
- January 2017: ARTFL is delighted to announce version 2.0 of our Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF) . 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.