Thursday, November 02, 2006

PhiloLogic™




PhiloLogic™ is the primary full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool developed by the ARTFL Project and the Digital Library Development Center (DLDC) at the University of Chicago. This is a Free Software implementation of PhiloLogic for large TEI-Lite document collections. The wide array of XML data specifications and the recent deployment of basic XML processing tools provides an important opportunity for the collaborative development of higher-level, interoperable tools for Humanities Computing applications.


  • light, fast, robust, extensively used and tested
  • few dependencies, basic installation almost wholly self-contained
  • out of the box operation with many configuration options
  • TEI-Lite XML/SGML (and variants such as MEP and CES) with Unicode support
  • support for plaintext, Dublin Core/HTML, and DocBook
  • MySQL back-end for bibliographic searching
  • optional XML-aware or non-XML bibliographic loaders
  • interoperability across certain systems
  • fault tolerant
  • open source


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