Literature
Texts
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garychowcmu/daizhigev20
Plain-text dump of the Daizhige collection of premodern Chinese writings: classics, histories, Buddhist and Daoist canons, poetry.
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PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit CC-BY-SA-4.0
TEI XML editions of ancient Greek literature from the Perseus Digital Library, with canonical citation identifiers.
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mahavivo/core-books
Plain-text editions of core premodern Chinese classics, chosen after a standard reading guide and partly proofread.
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OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek CC-BY-SA-4.0
TEI XML editions of Greek works from Homer to about 250 CE, filling gaps left by Perseus.
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PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit CC-BY-SA-4.0
TEI XML editions of classical Latin literature from the Perseus Digital Library, ready for reading and citation.
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OpenITI/RELEASE
Versioned releases of the OpenITI corpus of premodern Arabic and Persian texts, with metadata.
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palewire/cummings.ee MIT
Poems of E. E. Cummings, added year by year as each work enters the public domain, with the site source.
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lagrange-landada/shuowen
A digital text of Duan Yucai's Qing-dynasty commentary on the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary.
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projectbenyehuda/public_domain_dump
Public-domain Hebrew literature from Project Ben-Yehuda, as plain text with and without vowel points, and HTML.
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sveinbjornt/sagadb.org BSD-3-Clause
The Icelandic sagas in Old Norse and translation, with the code of the Saga Database site.
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pruizf/disco CC-BY-4.0
Corpus of Spanish-language sonnets from the 15th to the 20th century, encoded in TEI.
Datasets
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chinese-poetry/chinese-poetry MIT
Classical Chinese poetry as JSON: Tang and Song shi, Song ci, Yuan qu, the Shijing, the Chuci and the Analects.
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Werneror/Poetry MIT
Over 850,000 classical Chinese poems from pre-Qin to modern times, in CSV, for reading and text analysis.
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NiuTrans/Classical-Modern MIT
Parallel corpus pairing classical Chinese passages with modern Chinese translations, for study and translation research.
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aparrish/gutenberg-poetry-corpus
Lines of poetry extracted from Project Gutenberg books, prepared for computational poetry and text experiments.
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snowtraces/poetry-source MIT
Classical Chinese shi, ci and qu arranged by dynasty, two editions of the Complete Tang Poems, and a read-only API.
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PerseusDL/lexica CC-BY-SA-4.0
TEI XML files of Greek and Latin lexica digitised by the Perseus Digital Library.
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kanripo/KR-Catalog
Catalogue files of the Kanseki Repository, a collection of premodern Chinese texts.
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hugovk/gutenberg-metadata
Single JSON file of author, title and other metadata for Project Gutenberg ebooks.
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KaijieMo-kj/Ancient-Chinese-Allusion-Resource-Database
A database of allusions in classical Chinese poetry, built to help recognise them automatically.
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nk2028/tshet-uinh-images
Scans of rhyme dictionaries and rhyme tables of the Qieyun tradition, for historical Chinese phonology.
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dracor-org/gerdracor
German Drama Corpus: German plays encoded in TEI-P5, used by DraCor for structure and character-network analysis.
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dracor-org/rusdracor
Russian Drama Corpus: Russian plays encoded in TEI-P5, for reading and character-network analysis on DraCor.
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dracor-org/shakedracor
Shakespeare's plays from Folger Digital Texts, adapted to the DraCor pipeline for character-network analysis.
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COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-eng
English part of the European Literary Text Collection: novels first published 1840–1920, encoded in TEI XML.
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COST-ELTeC/ELTeC-fra
French part of the European Literary Text Collection: novels first published 1840–1920, encoded in TEI XML.
APIs
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palemoky/chinese-poetry-api GPL-3.0
Self-hostable REST and GraphQL service for classical Chinese poems, with search and simplified or traditional output.
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thundercomb/poetrydb GPL-2.0
Open API serving public-domain English poems, searchable by author, title, lines and line count.
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garethbjohnson/gutendex MIT
JSON web API for searching Project Gutenberg book metadata by author, title, language and topic.
Tools
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standardebooks/tools
Command-line tools Standard Ebooks uses to typeset, check and build carefully produced public-domain ebooks.
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LingDong-/cope
Desktop editor for composing classical Chinese regulated verse, with tone-pattern and rhyme hints while writing.
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quadrismegistus/prosodic GPL-3.0
Python parser that scans English and Finnish verse for metre and rhythm.
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pgcorpus/gutenberg GPL-3.0
Pipeline that downloads and cleans Project Gutenberg into the Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus for research.
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ropensci/gutenbergr
R package to search, download and clean public-domain texts from Project Gutenberg for text analysis.
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ganjoor/desktop MIT
Free desktop reader for the Ganjoor collection of classical Persian poetry, with search and highlighting.
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DistributedProofreaders/dproofreaders GPL-2.0
Web application volunteers use to proofread and format public-domain books page by page for Project Gutenberg.
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cis-india/Wikisource-Reader Apache-2.0
Android app for reading public-domain and freely licensed books from Wikisource, in Indian and other languages.
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Vincent-Carrier/oxytone AGPL-3.0
Reading environment for ancient Greek texts with LSJ lookups, morphology highlighting and Anki flashcard export.
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defense-humanites/bailly.app AGPL-3.0
Web app for consulting the Bailly Greek–French dictionary, built on the openly licensed Bailly 2020 data.
Lists
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hackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books
Reading list of widely recommended books grouped by subject, from fiction and history to philosophy and science.
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RichardLitt/awesome-fantasy
Curated reading list of fantasy novels and series, with related films and other resources.
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fpsvogel/learn-latin-and-greek
Curated list of dictionaries, grammars, readers and communities for learning Latin and ancient Greek.
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open-guji/guji-resource-index
Index of websites offering digitised Chinese ancient books, noting the source, licence and download options.