Contribute
Scholia is built on the conviction that great texts deserve careful, structured attention. Every work in the library has been parsed sentence by sentence, cross-referenced across translations, and enriched with margin references, commentary links, and annotation tools. This is painstaking work, and we need help.
What goes into adding a text
Bringing a single work into Scholia involves several stages:
- Digitization and transcription — sourcing a reliable edition in the public domain, correcting OCR errors, and preserving the original orthography.
- Structural markup — dividing the text into its table of contents hierarchy, paragraphs, and sentences, and aligning margin reference systems (page numbers from standard editions).
- Modernization — producing a modernized-orthography version for readability while keeping the original available.
- Translation alignment — matching each sentence in the source language to its counterpart in one or more translations.
Then there is additional commentary and resources; identifying verbatim quotations, paraphrases, and allusions to other works, and linking them at the sentence level.
Each of these stages requires both technical skill and scholarly judgment.
Who we are looking for
Whether you are a professional academic, a graduate student, or a serious independent reader, there is meaningful work to contribute:
- Philologists and classicists — help with transcription accuracy, orthographic questions, and critical apparatus.
- Translators — contribute new translations or help align existing ones sentence by sentence.
- Scholars of philosophy, theology, and literature — identify intertextual references, write commentary, and review resource links.
- Software developers and engineers — the platform is open to contributions on the tooling and infrastructure side as well.
Get in touch
If you are interested in contributing, or if you have a text you would like to see added to the library, reach out:
We will respond to every serious inquiry.