Conversten

Conversten is a tool that allows converting a critical edition or translation into TEI XML.

The main screen displays a list of converted files, and a button to add upload files.

Two things to point out:

1 - There's a button to give feedback on the conversion. This is very valuable for our team to improve the tool.

2 - We can change the conversion parameters at any time by clicking the “re-convert” button.

Clicking on the title of any of the editions takes us to an online preview

Here we can review the converted document, and in particular inspect the apparatus criticus to see if it matches our expectations.

Again, there's a feedback button that allows you to comment on errors, desiderata, and improvements

When uploading a file we choose between “critical edition” and “translation”

Conversten will try to automatically understand the structure, but we can help it by making sure:

1 - That the title and author are correct (we can correct the autodetected one) 2 - (optional) we can remove the title and author from the body of the text, since it's already specified in the step before. If in doubt leave to zero. 3 - For critical editions, we can help Conversten by manually completing the list of witness if there are any missing.

4 - For translations, we can enter the language of the translation columns if it's not detected automatically. We can also specify if we want the translations to be in a column in the same page as the original text, or in the page opposite the original text.