Anemoskala: corpus and concordances for major Modern Greek poets

Abstract

This paper reviews Anemoskala, an online resource offering a fully searchable textual corpus of major Modern Greek Poets (19th and 20th century), alongside with concordances and other scholarly components. Anemoskala is a digital resource originally designed to support teaching and research, and this overall goal is closely related to its scholarly identity, structure, and selection criteria for the corpus. The article assesses Anemoskala by paying attention to issues of editorial enrichment, data modelling and information architecture and interface design of the corpus’ data. Although the project follows a development workflow of high scholarly quality and rigor, parts of this work are currently missing from the end user as the resource does not allow any further reuse of its content while also lacking of a robust documentation of the technical part of its implementation, from encoding decisions to technologies used. As the project is still under development, suggestions related to its technical infrastructure, documentation, sustainability, reuse scenarios and overall user experience are also discussed.

Keywords

• concordances
• corpus
• modern greek literature
• tei
• text collection
• work in progress