Updates

We added 300 new authority records for authors and editors in connection with the work we're doing to catalog the Teubner volumes available in the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Metadata for all Latin content on http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it, which includes many works in Medieval and Neo-Latin, is available in a convenient reader view at http://www.internetculturale.it. For that reason, we built and ran a scraper on that site and pulled metadata only from Latin texts in BibIT. In all, 145 items were added on 2018-07-07. Going forward, the plan is to reconnect to the site on a quarterly basis and process any new records that have been added since the last connection.

Instead of scraping the collection available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper, we built an application to process the texts in the git repository at https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit. We did this because, as its name suggests, the repository is canonical for the old Perseus site and the new Scaife Viewer (https://scaife.perseus.org). Since the Scaife Viewer does not yet have all of the texts from the old site, we included links to the Scaife Viewer where they are available. Otherwise, the links point to the old Perseus site. It is clear that this collection will need active monitoring, since it is undergoing many changes. The total number of items from the Perseus repository added to the DLL Catalog on 2018-06-25 was 452.