Dickinson College Commentaries is a digital project of
Dickinson College, which is located in
Carlisle, near
Harrisburg
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, in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania
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. The project assembles digital commentaries on texts in Latin and ancient Greek and publishes core vocabularies of the most common words in those languages. It is hosted by the department of
Classical Studies.
History
In 2010 DCC launched a pilot site in
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWi ...
that was dedicated to notes on the selections from
Gallic Wars
The Gallic Wars were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland). Gallic, Germanic, and British tribes fought to defend their homel ...
used in the American
Advanced Placement Latin Exam. The site moved to
DrupalDrupal
/ref> in 2012.
The project director is Christopher Francese, the Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies at Dickinson College.
Peer Review
Commentary proposals are reviewed and edited in a process similar to that used by traditional academic print publishers.
Copyright status
Dickinson College Commentaries supports open-source content, and publishes all content under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.
External links
Dickinson College Commentaries
Dickinson Classics Online
(Chinese sister project)
Anne Mahoney, “Latin Commentaries on the Web.” Teaching Classical Languages 5.2 (2014): 133–143.
References
Computing in classical studies
Discipline-oriented digital libraries
Educational projects
Digital humanities
Dickinson College
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