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Description
The Latin Text Archive (LTA) is an online platform hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) since 2020 (https://LTA.bbaw.de). Its primary objective is to facilitate computer-assisted semantic analysis of Latin texts and corpora spanning various epochs and genres. Conceived as an open platform from its inception in the mid-2000s, it enables external editors and text providers to make their editions available for morphological and semantic analysis. This is why it currently contains over 58,000 texts comprising more than 106 million words. However, the LTA is currently facing three significant challenges: 1) How can metadata from different editions and academic backgrounds be aligned? 2) How to organise the text material for AI-supported text analysis. 3) How can the LTA be maintained and continuously improved in times of reduced funding? This presentation addresses these three challenges and aims to stimulate discussion by exploring possibilities rather than presenting definitive solutions.