metadata
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
language:
- grc
- la
- en
pretty_name: Mouseion Greek and Latin library data
tags:
- classics
- ancient-greek
- latin
- digital-humanities
- lemmatization
Mouseion: open data for a connected Greek and Latin library
This dataset powers the Mouseion library, a project hosted by Polis – The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities. Every file is plain JSON and can be reused directly.
Contents
| Path | What it holds |
|---|---|
catalog.json |
Works, editions, translations, citation style, statistics |
text/{work}/{book}.json |
Every word with lemma and grammar code, English translation by section, phrases, links to dictionaries and quotations, manuscript variants (Iliad) |
lines/{work}.json |
Plain text of each citable unit |
lemmas.json, tags.json |
Dictionary forms with short glosses and counts; 9-character grammar codes (Perseus treebank scheme) |
index/{lang}/{n}.json |
Where each dictionary form occurs (work, book, unit, token, grammar) |
forms/{lang}.json |
Accent-free spelling → dictionary forms |
dict/{n}.json |
LSJ and Lewis & Short entries and attested forms |
phrases.json |
Phrase dictionary sample and automatically mined formulae with occurrences |
scholia/{book}.json |
Venetus A scholia on the Iliad, linked to lines, with sample English drafts |
Book files also carry notes (footnotes of the printed edition), noterefs and notecited (passages those notes cite, linked both ways). Works marked hidden in the catalog are duplicate copies of another work.
How it was made
- Texts and translations: Perseus Digital Library and Open Greek and Latin (First Thousand Years of Greek), CC BY-SA.
- Lemmas and grammar: Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (human-checked) for Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus and five plays of Sophocles; LatinCy and a Greek spaCy model elsewhere (automatic, marked as such).
- Dictionaries: LSJ and Lewis & Short from the Perseus lexica, CC BY-SA.
- Venetus A text, images and scholia: Homer Multitext project, Creative Commons.
- Editors' notes: footnotes and apparatus of the printed editions, with their citations resolved using the abbreviations of LSJ and Lewis & Short.
- Quotations: shared five-word sequences between earlier and later authors, found automatically.
- AI translations: a few demonstration drafts, labelled and unreviewed.
Derived data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0; credit the original projects above when reusing it.