RevLog Edition Tool

• Edition Tool, Virtual Research Environment
• Name: AskSten Scriptorium
• Requirements:
  • Usability:
    • Easy-to-use
    • Plug&Play
    • local
    • GUI
    • collaborative
    • auto-save, ctrl-z (?)
  • I/O: standard formats and models, possibility to import in Omeka S

Form (text's metadata):

• Title
• Author (Wikidata URI)
• Date of origin (Wikidata URI)
• Place of origin
• Language
• Direction of the script
• Notes
• Editor(s)

<teiHeader>
    <fileDesc>
        <titleStmt>
            <title><!-- title of the resource --></title>
        </titleStmt>
        <publicationStmt>
            <p><!-- Information about distribution of the resource--></p>
        </publicationStmt>
        <sourceDesc>
            <p><!-- Information about source from which the resource derives --></p>
        </sourceDesc>
    </fileDesc>
</teiHeader>

Add witness form:

• Ms Identifier
  • Settlement
  • Repository
  • Id
• Contents…
• Physical Description
  • Form (e.g. codex)
  • Material: parchment|paper
  • Extent
  • Layout:
    • Columns
    • Lines
  • Hands:
• Images: URL (IIIF) or PDF

<msDesc>
 <msIdentifier>
  <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
  <repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
  <idno type="Bod">MS Poet. Rawl. D. 169.</idno>
 </msIdentifier>
 <msContents>
  <msItem>
   <author>Geoffrey Chaucer</author>
   <title>The Canterbury Tales</title>
  </msItem>
 </msContents>
 <physDesc>
  <objectDesc>
   <p>A parchment codex of 136 folios, measuring approx
       28 by 19 inches, and containing 24 quires.</p>
   <p>The pages are margined and ruled throughout.</p>
   <p>Four hands have been identified in the manuscript: the first 44
       folios being written in two cursive anglicana scripts, while the
       remainder is for the most part in a mixed secretary hand.</p>
  </objectDesc>
 </physDesc>
</msDesc>

Desiderata:

• Choose siglum of witness

• [ ] automatic marking of variations
• [ ] automatic completion of text (tab)
• [ ] automatic selection of text (right click)
• [ ] dealing with punctuation
• [ ] define collation's sensibility (punctuation, brackets, format, case, spaces, language specific options)
• [ ] navigation
• [ ] add folio/page beginning
• [ ] add line beginning
• [ ] tricky: transpositions
• [ ] tricky: big texts ⇒ automatic split
• [ ] export collation
• [ ] mark entities and add Wikidata (persons, places, institutions, references, quotations)
• [ ] select more than one cell

• [ ] Add apparatus (critical, sources)
• [ ] Apparatus settings (positive/negative, in line/block, direction)

• [ ] Add translation
• [ ] Add semantic comments (stand-off)

1. PDF (LaTeX ekdosis)
2. HTML (XSLT)