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Dickinson College Commentaries is a digital project of Dickinson College, which is located in Carlisle, near
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, in the U.S. state of
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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
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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 {{Classics-stub