Abstract
The various mechanisms offered by the TEI schema and Guidelines for the encoding of critical editions suffer from one major shortcoming: the lack of user-friendly tools allowing philologists and their readers to display and process TEI-encoded editions. After witnessing –and personally experiencing– this frustration, I decided to develop an application especially dedicated to supporting philologists in their work, and helping them to fully benefit from their encoding work. The TEI Critical Apparatus Toolbox is now available online (http://ciham-digital.huma-num.fr/teicat/). This article describes the context in which this application was developed, its current features, and the plans for future improvements.
Highlights
The only requirement is that this edition must be encoded using the Parallel Segmentation method. As long as this method is used, any style can be used in the le: positive or negative apparatus, use of , use of only, or a mix of di erent styles – which is common in work-in-progress editions, when some lemmata have already been chosen while other apparatus entries still contain only readings, waiting for a choice by the editor
We hope that the Critical Apparatus Toolbox will be able to adapt to these evolutions: since the functions of the interface are powered by Javascript, updating the XSLT should be enough to adapt to new rules or elements in the module
A little more than ve years after that survey, the general landscape of the TEI has evolved toward a better recognition of the importance of providing the users with tools that require as little technical knowledge as possible to let textual scholars reap the fruits of their encoding
Summary
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 10, 07/12/2016 Selected Papers from the 2015 TEI Conference. Displaying the work-in-progress edition: in the early stages of a critical edition, it is quite common to be undecided yet regarding the manuscript (if any) on which you are going to base your edition, so the possibility of displaying the di erent versions of the text according to various witnesses, and in di erent states, is quite helpful. Using di erent styles of TEI encoding: even if an editor is planning to produce a text encoded with lemmata ( elements), it is quite common to encode only “neutral” readings ( elements) while the work is still in progress, choosing which element will become a only at a later stage, when all or enough witnesses have been collated and examined. An early-stage edition may comprise apparatus entries containing either a lemma and one or more readings, or only readings – a state that can be confusing to some display tools
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