Abstract
Documenting text-reuse (when one text includes a quotation or paraphrase of, or even allusion to another text) is one example of the problem of analysis and alignment. The most clever analytical tools will be of no avail unless their results can be cited, as scholarly evidence has been cited for centuries. This is where the CITE Architecture can help. CITE solves several problems at once. The first problem is the endless possible number of analyses (by which we mean “desirable ways of splitting up a text”): do we choose to “read” a text passage-by-passage, clause-by-clause, word-by-word, or syllable-by-syllable? The second, related to the first, is that of overlapping hierarchies: The first two words of the Iliad are “μῆνιν ἄειδε,” but the first metrical foot of the poem is “μηνιν α”; the first noun-phrase is “μῆνιν οὐλομένενην”, the first word of the first line, and the first word of the second line, and nothing
About the authors
Christopher W. Blackwell is the Louis G. Forgione University Professor of Classics and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Furman University. He has 28 years’ experience in digital humanities projects. Since 2002 has been co-Project Architect, with Neel Smith, for the Homer Multitext, and co-author of the CITE Architecture.
Neel Smith is Professor of Classics and Chair of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He has been working with applications of digital technology to the humanities for more than thirty years. He was a founding member of the Perseus Project, and since 2002 has been, with Christopher Blackwell, a co-architect of the Homer Multitext project and the CITE Architecture.
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