phi0959.phi015 has a very wrong number of words

[PonteIneptique]

Hi @AlisonBabeu :D

In

catalog_data/mods/latinLit/phi0959/phi015/opp-lat2/phi0959.phi015.opp-lat2.mods1.xml

Lines 10 to 12 in e8b7ad7

	<mods:extent unit="words">
	<mods:total>224765</mods:total>
	</mods:extent>

200k words are counted, but, it's a poem of 474 lines: https://books.google.fr/books?id=I9QIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA97&redir_esc=y&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false
Might have been a count based on the full book ?

[AlisonBabeu]

hi @PonteIneptique, so this word count is not something that Perseus itself generated or counted, but have instead inherited them from the PHI Canon, which states that this work as 224765 words. The XML file can be found here (https://github.com/PerseusDL/catalog_data/blob/master/perseus/wordcounts.xml) and all of the word counts for Latin works in the Perseus Catalog (that had a PHI ID) were added automatically. It is strange in that the text of the file here in the PHI canon (https://latin.packhum.org/loc/959/15/0#0) seems to be nowhere near that long. I actually have no idea how these word counts were first generated by the PHI, but this is not the only work I've found where the word count seems to be way off. Hope this answers your question, and happy new year!