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:

• [x] Choose siglum of witness
• [ ] Witnesses: add input field folios (e.g. ff. 59ra-61vb)
• [ ] Add section “Editions” ⇒ add existing edition with this fields: author, title, editor, publisher, year of publication, place of publication, pages
• [ ] Import options: txt, doc/docx, xml/tei, latex (?)

• [ ] automatic marking of variations
• [x] 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 column 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
• [ ] merge cells
• [ ] add another row (as another witness) for Editor(s) emendationes and conjectures

• [x] addition [= new column]
  • [ ] iteration
• [x] omission [= missing value for cell]
  • [ ] deficit [diff. with om.?]
• [x]substitution [= another reading in cell]
• [x] alteration [= another reading in cell]
  • [ ] delevit
  • [ ] erasit
  • [ ] expunxit
  • [ ] praem.
  • [ ] supplevit
  • [ ] adnot.
  • [ ] subl.
• [ ] inversion (words, passages) [check]
  • [ ] inv.
  • [ ] transp. [how]
• [ ] Saut du même au même
  • [ ] backward = dittography
  • [ ] forward = omission
• [ ] a.c. and p.c. [how? divide cell: a.c. and p.c.] + corr.
• [ ] sed del. et corr. mg. [?]
• notes on notes:
  • alia manu
  • mg. /sub. lin. / sup. lin. / inf. / sup.
  • hom. (for omissions)
  • lectio dubia
  • sic
• Text external history
  • illegible ⇒ lacuna: the ms once contained something that has disappeared (can take the aspect of an omissions in the copies)
  • corruption [?]

• Tags:
  • Alteration: [del.] [eras.] [exp.] [praem.] [suppl.] [adnot.] [subl.] [corr. => a.c + p.c.]
  • Notes: [a.m.] [mg.] [sub. lin.] [sup. lin.] [inf.] [sup.] [hom.] (for omissions) [sic]
  • Ms: [illeg.] [lacuna] [lec. dub]
• Comments:
  • pre :〈words〉 before the lemma/reading text.
  • post:〈words〉 after the lemma/reading text.
  • prewit:〈words〉 before the list of witnesses for the lemma/reading.
  • postwit:〈words〉 after the list of witnesses for the lemma/reading.

1. Presentation of errors/variants in a table
2. Presentation of errors/variants in a list

• [ ] 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)