CAMENA Neo-Latin texts republished on Github
CAMENA (Corpus Automatum Multiplex Electorum Neolatinitatis Auctorum) was a DFG-funded research project carried out at the German Department of Heidelberg University Chair of German Literature (Modern Period), in cooperation with the Information Technology Center and the Library of the University of Mannheim, and led by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann; we have to be particularly thankful to the spiritus movens of Wolfgang Schibel, as well as to Reinhard Gruhl, Emir Zuljevic, Heinz Kredel, and other members of the team. The project was active from 1999 to 2013; in my opinion, it was one of the most important Neo-Latin digital initiatives.
Since the machine-readable texts of CAMENA were made available under the Creative Commons Attribution / Share Alike license, I am republishing the XML files of all the CAMENA collections as a Github repository, to enable further digital experiments with CAMENA Neo-Latin material.
The repository is on Github; we welcome all corrections and improvements, and suggest that you propose them as issues or as pull requests from your fork.
Should the repository grow, in any direction? (New texts? Additional encoding and annotations?) I would be more than happy to discuss this as well!
The CAMENA Github repository contains 949 XML files in its POEMATA section, 382 files in the HISTORICA & POLITICA, 296 files in the THESAURUS ERUDITIONIS, and 124 files in CERA, with the total of 1751 files. These files contain 50,458,045 words (tokens) below the text element.
Sincere gratitude goes to people involved in CAMENA for all their efforts, and for making this possible. Sumus nani gigantum humeris insidentes.