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The CITE Collection Tables and the Perseus Catalog
The most up-to-date CITE Collection Tables include all the data that is in the Perseus catalog_data repository and include four ways of searching the data: Author, Textgroup, Works, and Versions. The user can also select an entire individual CITE collection to view at one time (although the Versions list can take quite a long time to load).
The Authors Table includes a full list of the authors currently represented in the Perseus Catalog (but not records for authors in catalog_pending) along with the author’s CITE URN, authority name, canonical identifier (TLG, PHI, STOA), a link to the author’s MADS file on Github, and alternate IDs such as their LCNAF (in some cases authors that wrote across languages such as Cicero, have identifiers in multiple canons).
The Textgroups Table includes a full list of the textgroups in the Perseus Catalog and includes the textgroup’s CITE URN, CTS URN, English groupname, whether a MADS record has been created, the URN status (currently only three statuses are in use: published, duplicate or invalid), a notes field, and a “redirect to” field (the field for entering the correct CITE URN if a textgroup is found to be invalid and a valid CITE URN has already been published).
The Works Table includes a full list of works found within the catalog and includes the works CITE URN, CTS URN, English title, original language of the work, a notes field, URN status, and a “redirect to” field.
The Versions Table includes a full list of the published versions in the catalog. Each version has a CITE URN, a CTS URN, an English label (essentially all of the work and title metadata), and English description (the editor and author information combined).
The CITE Collections tables can be searched for specific information using a variety of fields, largely dependent on the type of information in the table. All four types of data items can be searched for using their CITE URNs and CTS URNs. Authors can also additionally be searched for by author name and alternate IDs, textgroups by their group name, works by their title and original language, and versions by their label or by their description (as described above).
All of these tables can be edited and should be when information in the catalog is found to be incorrect either at the individual version level or sometimes at a higher level. A unique password must be created in order to login and make changes to individual records. After a record has been edited the status edited_by should be changed to the individual editors name.
Typical edits that have been made to the CITE Tables so far include, fixing typos in Author or Work names, redirecting URNs when invalid or duplicate versions have been published, adding alternate IDs to authority records, etc.