Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts
The University of Oklahoma is the recipient of a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the continued development of the Digital Latin Library project, which—when complete—will create resources that people of varying levels of interest and expertise in Latin can use to find, read, discuss, study, teach, edit and annotate Latin texts of all types and eras.
“This grant is a great tribute to the leadership of our University and its faculty and staff in the fields of classics and letters,” said OU President David L. Boren.
This grant will allow OU and its collaborators to move forward on the implementation and launch of this Linked Open Data resource for providing resources and support of new scholarly educational materials related to Latin texts....