Latin Text Archive Improved
The original reason for starting the website www.ipsissima-verba.org/ was to provide a place to archive Latin texts and translations. I wrote the original PHP software myself, and it was highly specialized for this task.
Once I made the switch to Drupal for content management, I could no longer achieve the same functionality, but the advantage was a stronger and more generic overall architecture.
Having learned a little bit about Drupal module writing for the Kenrick Liturgical Ministries website, I decided to try to improve the Latin Text Archive.
I now have the site in a much more usable configuration. When you view a Latin text, the translations, analysis, etc. that are associated with it appear in the right sidebar. If you view a translation or another piece of associated content, it appears side by side with the original text for comparison.
If I keep up this work, I’d like to develop a specialized way of categorizing texts. Right now, free tagging seems to be the best option since a hierarchy gets quite unwieldy when you have so many contingents (What is it? Which book is it in? Which edition of the book? Where is it in the book? etc.).
