The SUDA project: collaborative Web-based translation

SOL (Suda On Line) is a collaborative Internet-based project involving dozens of researchers to transform the Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, into a searchable electronic text in English translation. The text will include SGML tags to delimit content such as personal names, places, and treatises and will also contain bibliographic and other references, many of which will be hypertext links to other projects elsewhere. SOL allows us to identify translators, establish editorial control, allocate encyclopedia entries to translators, accept translations, have translators modify their accepted translations, have editors vet translations, present texts with Greek and English components, present overall translation status, and perform searches.