The Sixth Generation of the Perseus Digital Library and a Workflow for Open Philology

This paper presents an overview of recent developments by the Perseus Digital Library in creating theBeyond Translation reading environment, a foundational component in the transition toward Perseus 6,built on the ATLAS (Aligned Text and Linguistic Annotation Server) architecture. It highlights theintegration of diverse open data sources from multiple digital humanities projects, all brought together tosupport an innovative, richly layered digital reading experience. Following this, the paper details the keyservices offered by Beyond Translation, including text-translation alignments, advancedmorpho-syntactic analysis, audio annotations, and enhanced access to integrated reference resources suchas commentaries and dictionaries. The paper concludes with a discussion of forthcoming enhancementsand the future trajectory of the ATLAS architecture.