“We
liked the versatility of the dtSearch Engine”
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Content Data Solutions has provided
solutions to industry-leading publishers and manufacturers
for more than 40 years. With roots in directory
and page composition, pre-press services and information
management, Content Data has
evolved from devising systems to more efficiently
deliver information via the printed page, to applying
technology to facilitate the management and transmission
of information via electronic media.
The
Electronic Publishing Services (EPS) Group of
Content Data Solutions focuses on bibliography lists and linguistic
references for libraries and scholars around the
world. Included in this group’s projects
is the creation of an electronic version of the
authoritative monolingual Latin lexicon, the Thesaurus
Linguae Latinae (TLL). The TLL documents
and describes the use of the Latin language in
surviving texts up to A.D. 600. Work on this lexicon
began in 1894 and continues today.
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“Working
with dtSearch has been nothing but good news”
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Published by KG Saur Verlag, the TLL is the
authoritative starting point for all research
involving Latin. Typically, Latin philologists,
Latin scholars, Latin students, and others interested
in Classical Studies will find great use in this
research tool. It provides detailed documentation
of usage, etymology, history, and the survival
of Latin in other languages. The TLL further supports
its presentation with citations of Latin texts
and scholarly articles. The TLL is composed of
Latin, Greek, and Hebrew characters along with
a number of unique, special characters.
Before electronic conversion, the TLL only existed
as printed volumes—consuming more than four
feet of shelf space. The published volumes of
the TLL to date are volumes A-M and O.
Content Data Solutions' role in this project was to create
an exact replication on CD of the existing printed
version of the TLL with a customized interface.
The company provided the functionality to navigate,
retrieve, link, and display the newly captured
electronic text of the TLL. For full-text searching
across the electronic TLL, Content Data chose the
dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine.
"We liked the versatility of the dtSearch
Engine," said Nick Naro, Director, Electronic
Publishing Services. "Technical
support has been very helpful. Working with dtSearch
has been nothing but good news."
For more information on Content Data Solutions, please call 1-800-872-2828
or (215) 682-5000, or visit the company on the
Web at www.contentdsi.com.
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