Summary and motivation

greeklib.js is a javascript library for working with citable text in polytonic ancient Greek in a web browser or other javascript environment.

Release notes

Main features:

• defines the Token class to represent a citable, classified token
• implements the tokenize function to tokenize a single citable text passage

Installation

The file greeklib.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded via jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/greeklib@1.0.0/greeklib.js.

Documentation

• available on github

Source

• available on github

Caveats

The javascript library and the markdown documentation were written entirely by gemini-2.5-pro. The code passes a series of sanity tests, but I have not even looked at the javascript. When I encountered errors, I let gemini fix them. Use the code as you like, but be aware that I have no idea what it does or how it works.

Auditing the build:

• github repository includes a complete transcript of the chat used to generate the script, with saved intermediate versions of the javascript library. See the repository README for details.

Summary and motivation

hmt-lib.js is a javascript library for parsing and manipulating data in published releases of the Homer Multitext project (HMT), including normalized and diplomatic editions of texts, indexing of relations of text passages to images and manuscript pages, indexing of Iliad lines and scholia, and documentation of manuscript sources.

Release notes

This announcement covers both the initial 1.0.0 release and immediately following 1.1.0 release. Main features:

• load a published release of HMT
• retrieve text corpora and specific text passages in diplomatic and normalized editions
• discover relations among text passages, documentary images, and manuscript pages
• discover relations between Iliad passages and scholia
• label texts and objects with catalog metadata
• add precomposed menu widgets to web pages to select Iliad texts and manuscripts

See the github repository for more details.

Installation

The file hmt-lib.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded vis jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/hmt-lib@1.1.0/hmt-lib.js.

Documentation

• available on github

Source

• available on github

Caveats

The javascript library and the markdown documentation were written entirely by gemini-2.5-pro. The code passes a series of sanity tests, but I have not even looked at the javascript. When I encountered errors, I let gemini fix them. Use the code as you like, but be aware that I have no idea what it does or how it works.

Auditing the build:

• github repository includes a complete transcript of the chat used to generate the script, with saved intermediate versions of the javascript library. See the repository README for details.

Summary and motivation

urn-lib.js is a javascript library for parsing, validating, comparing, and retrieving data associated with CTS (Canonical Text Services) URNs and CITE2 URNs.

Release notes

Initial release. Main features:

• analyze and manipulate CTS URNs and CITE2 URNs
• comparison of CTS URNs and CITE2 URNs based on equality or URN congruence
• retrieve data from delimited-text sources based on URN congruence

Installation

The file urn-lib.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded vis jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/urns-lib/urn-lib.js.

Documentation

• available on github

Source

• available on github

Caveats

The javascript library and the markdown documentation were written entirely by gemini-2.5-pro. The code passes a series of sanity tests, but I have not even looked at the javascript. When I encountered errors, I let gemini fix them. Use the code as you like, but be aware that I have no idea what it does or how it works.

Auditing the build:

• github repository includes a complete transcript of the chat used to generate the script, with saved intermediate versions of the javascript library. See the repository README for details.

Summary and motivation

hmt-iiif-lib.js is a javascript library for working with images available from the Homer Multitext project’s IIIF image server, using URN notation. It provides a lightweight, from-scratch IIIF image viewer, along with utility functions for generating IIIF URLs.

The Homer Multitext project (HMT) makes its archive of images available via the IIIF protocol, but its published data releases use CITE2 URNs to provide stable references to images and regions of interest (ROIs) within those images. hmt-iiif-lib.js simplifies working with this material in a web browser or other javascript environment.

Release notes

Initial release. Main features:

• add a pannable/zoomable image viewer to a web page for an image identified by CITE2. ROIs are visually highlighted.
• overlay multiple ROIs on a single image by invoking the viewer with a list of URNs with differeing ROIs
• “citation mode” allows users to select new ROIs with option-click/drag, and returns CITE2 URNs for all user-selected regions
• compose an IIIF request for an image that can be embedded in a web page

Installation

The file hmt-image.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded vis jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/hmt-image-lib/hmt-iiif-lib.js.

Documentation

• available on github

Source

• available on github

Caveats

The javascript library and the markdown documentation were written entirely by gemini-2.5-pro. The code passes a series of sanity tests, but I have not even looked at the javascript. When I encountered errors, I let gemini fix them. Use the code as you like, but be aware that I have no idea what it does or how it works.

Auditing the build:

• github repository includes a complete transcript of the chat used to generate the script, with saved intermediate versions of the javascript library. See the repository README for details.

Summary and motivation

cex.js is a javascript library for working with CEX data sources in a web browser or other javascript environment.

The Homer Multitext project publishes its data releases in a single, plain-text document on github. (The current release is always available at this URL.) The release file follows the Cite EXchange format (CEX), defined here.

The javascript library in cex.js simplifies working with CEX data in a web browser or other javascript environment.

Release notes

Initial release. Main features:

• load and parse CEX data from string values, local files or URLs
• discover CEX block labels, read contents of blocks by label
• discover data models, and find collections implementing a model
• retrieve a delimited-text table for the contents of all blocks of a given type

Installation

The file cex.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded vis jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/cex-lib/cex.js.

Documentation

• available on github

Source

• available on github

Caveats

The javascript library and the markdown documentation were written entirely by gemini-2.5-pro. The code passes a series of sanity tests, but I have not even looked at the javascript. When I encountered errors, I let gemini fix them. Use the code as you like, but be aware that I have no idea what it does or how it works.

Installation

Install from the central registry with Julia’s package manager.

• in package mode from the Julia REPL ] add Obsidian
• from a Julia terminal session: using Pkg; Pkg.add("Obsidian")

Documentation

• package documentation is available on quarto.pub. Documentation includes a brief tutorial and more detailed guides on how to use the new functions.

Source

• available on github

Installation

LexiconMining.jl is an unpublished package. You can install it directory from its github repository.

• in package mode from the Julia REPL ] add https://github.com/neelsmith/LexiconMining.jl.git
• from a Julia terminal session: using Pkg; Pkg.add(url="https://github.com/neelsmith/LexiconMining.jl.git")

Documentation

• package documentation is available on quarto.pub

Source

• available on github

Progress

• check this milestone in the github repository to follow progress in implementing generation of Tabulae data sets

Installation

Install from the central registry with Julia’s package manager.

• in package mode from the Julia REPL ] add HmtArchive
• from a Julia terminal session: using Pkg; Pkg.add("HmtArchive")

Documentation

• package documentation is available on quarto.pub
• the documentation of CitablePhysicalText.jl includes a tutorial on how to use the new iiifmanifest function.

Source

• available on github

Documentation

The images are documented in six IIIF manifests, one for each volume.

• links to the IIIF manifests

using CitablePhysicalText, CitableBase
using CitableImage

imgsvc_baseurl = "http://www.homermultitext.org/iipsrv"
imgsvc_root = "/project/homer/pyramidal/deepzoom"
imgsvc = IIIFservice(imgsvc_baseurl, imgsvc_root)

manifestids = ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neelsmith/complutensian-texts/refs/heads/main/iiif/complutensian-bne-v$(i)-manifest.json" for i in 1:6]
configs = iiifconfig.(manifestids)


codexurls = ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neelsmith/complutensian-texts/refs/heads/main/codex/bne_v$(i).cex" for i in 1:6]
codices = [fromcex(f, Codex, UrlReader)[1] for f in codexurls]

totalpages = [length(c.pages) for c in codices] |> sum
@info("Total pages documented in manifests: $(totalpages)")

Precompiling CitablePhysicalText...
    322.1 ms  ✓ Graphics
  10959.3 ms  ✓ ImageCore
   1831.1 ms  ✓ ImageBase
   2364.0 ms  ✓ ImageMagick
   2436.0 ms  ✓ ImageMorphology
   2805.5 ms  ✓ PNGFiles
    974.1 ms  ✓ HistogramThresholding
   2138.1 ms  ✓ JpegTurbo
   1296.0 ms  ✓ ImageAxes
   1822.3 ms  ✓ Sixel
   1469.3 ms  ✓ ImageTransformations
   1306.3 ms  ✓ ImageShow
   1360.5 ms  ✓ ImageDistances
   1165.3 ms  ✓ ImageMetadata
   1755.1 ms  ✓ ImageBinarization
   1920.0 ms  ✓ ImageContrastAdjustment
   1377.4 ms  ✓ Netpbm
  25178.2 ms  ✓ TiffImages
  25756.3 ms  ✓ ImageFiltering
   2681.5 ms  ✓ ImageSegmentation
   4962.8 ms  ✓ ImageCorners
   5499.8 ms  ✓ ImageQualityIndexes
   3595.6 ms  ✓ Images
   3184.4 ms  ✓ CitableImage
   3094.6 ms  ✓ CitablePhysicalText
  25 dependencies successfully precompiled in 57 seconds. 239 already precompiled.
[ Info: Total pages documented in manifests: 3029

manifests = [iiifmanifest(codices[i], configs[i], imgsvc) for i in 1:6]

Release notes: version 0.12.0

• adds the iiifmanifest function to generate IIIF manifests automatically from Codex objects.

Installation

Install from the central registry with Julia’s package manager.

• in package mode from the Julia REPL ] add CitablePhysicalText
• from a Julia terminal session: using Pkg; Pkg.add("CitablePhysicalText")

Documentation

• package documentation is available on quarto.pub
• the package documentation includes a tutorial on how to use the new iiifmanifest function.

Source

• available on github

Release notes: version 0.1.0

Initial release. Some significant features:

• download and parse OSHB annotations for all or specified portions of the Hebrew Bible (more than 423,000 individually annotated words)
• all words keyed to canonically identified passages using CTS URNss
• can instantiate Julia objects from OSHB morphological codes for Hebrew morphology

Installation

Install from the central registry with Julia’s package manager.

• in package mode from the Julia REPL ] add OpenScripturesHebrew
• from a Julia terminal session: using Pkg; Pkg.add("OpenScripturesHebrew")

Documentation

• available on quarto.pub

Source

• available on github

Changes and current versions numbers

• version 1.3.1 of the REPL script corrects an error in the interactively displayed usage instructions

Current version:

• script for use in REPL: 1.3.1

Documentation

See the github repository.

Changes and current versions numbers

• easier options for using the REPL offline with a previously downloaded dataset
• options in both REPL script and Pluto notebook for counting results rather than formatting the full text of matching articles in Markdown

Current versions:

• Pluto notebook: 1.2.0
• script for use in REPL: 1.3.0

Documentation

See the github repository.

Back to the future

I used RSS feeds 15-20 years ago, but like a lot of other people, I thought RSS had died. It’s proven to be too simple and useful to go away altogether, however, and seems like a particularly good fit for following irregular announcements about changes to code and documentation.

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