Word count on urn:cts:latinLit:phi0631.phi008 ?

[PonteIneptique]

Hi there !
While looking into URN for the In Ciceronem, I found the word count of 48k words on the catalog :

• http://catalog.perseus.org/catalog/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0631
• https://github.com/PerseusDL/catalog_data/blob/fffbc6369e8b5fbf33f511f963c126e15a584828/mods/latinLit/phi0631/phi008/opp-lat5/phi0631.phi008.opp-lat5.mods1.xml

If we look at the original content ( http://www.archive.org/stream/sallustiiincicer00sall#page/n17/mode/2up ) or at some online transcription (Like Thayer's http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Sallust/pseudo/In_Ciceronem*.html ), this number seems quite off :)

[AlisonBabeu]

Hi @PonteIneptique (always nice to hear from you! :) ).

In terms of the word counts for an individual work, that was information added into the Perseus Catalog externally. I believe for Latin works such as this work by Sallust, that the word count was drawn from the PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) database, but @gregorycrane would know more about that since he loves word counts! So for the short term, all I can say is that you may be quite right, I've actually never had anyone ask a question about a word count before.

[PonteIneptique]

@AlisonBabeu What do you know, PhD, catalog browsing, data checking... When I can give feedback, I do :)

[AlisonBabeu]

And such excellent feedback as always @PonteIneptique!

[PonteIneptique]

Thanks :)