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Directory records for Vitruvius Digital Library and Vitruvia
This page offers transparent English-language descriptions suitable for evaluation by research-resource directories, particularly SSH Open Marketplace. It does not imply submission, acceptance, endorsement, peer review, or affiliation with any directory. The two resources below should be catalogued separately and related to each other.
1. Vitruvius Digital Library
- Resource type
- Digital library / research collection; suggested catalogue category: Tools & Services
- Website
- https://diegoalonsok-png.github.io/vitruvius-digital-library/
- Project identifier
- DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23868911
- Creator
- Diego A. Kurilo, architect with a specialisation in Urban Planning; independent author and editor, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Languages
- Latin originals; Spanish, French and English editorial reading materials; selected Greek and Latin classical resources
- Cost
- Free to access; no account required to read the public site
- Source code
- Public GitHub repository; public visibility is not a grant of an open-source licence
- Related works
- V514 · Latin–Spanish study edition; V554 · Latin–French study edition; V297 · The Architect of Theory
Suggested directory description
Vitruvius Digital Library is an independent, freely accessible digital research collection devoted to Vitruvius' De architectura, Latin textual tradition, historical editions, manuscript provenance, architectural vocabulary and comparative reading. It provides locus-oriented reading and search tools, references to institutional facsimiles and historically situated editorial materials, and access to related Greek and Latin resources. Its author's V514, V554 and V297 study publications have separate Zenodo DOIs. The project differentiates editorial transcriptions, modern translations, external digitised witnesses and machine-derived OCR. It is a research aid, not a completed comprehensive critical collation or a formally peer-reviewed edition.
2. Vitruvia — humanities search interface
- Resource type
- Web-based research search tool; suggested catalogue category: Tools & Services
- Website
- Vitruvia search
- Parent collection
- Vitruvius Digital Library; relation: relates to / is part of
- Development status
- Beta; search behaviour and experimental semantic functionality are being revised and tested
- Scope
- Search of indexed local texts and catalogue information in the project, with separately attributed links to selected external scholarly and public resources. External sites are not automatically part of the hosted corpus.
- Code and rights
- Inspect public source; no open-source software licence is asserted without an explicit licence grant
- Cost
- Free to use on the public site
Suggested directory description
Vitruvia is the developing humanities-oriented search interface associated with Vitruvius Digital Library. It supports discovery of indexed passages, bibliographic materials, classical terminology and related resources, with links back to documented sources wherever available. The interface is in beta: indexing, ranking and experimental semantic or external retrieval functions require independent validation. Literal results, editorial interpretations and external references should not be treated as equivalent evidentiary categories.
Rights and methodological notice
Free access is not the same as permission to redistribute. Diego A. Kurilo retains applicable rights to his original books, translations, commentary and editorial material; their free online reading availability does not itself grant unrestricted reuse. Third-party texts, images, manuscript facsimiles and institutional digitizations retain their own applicable rights and source attributions. The repository is publicly inspectable; the applicable code licence must be checked separately, and no blanket open-source licence is represented here.
Stable DOIs identify publication records; they do not by themselves certify peer review. Textual concordances, manuscript-to-locus associations and OCR readings must be checked against their sources.