Tools and Environments for Digital Scholarly Editing.
A special issue of RIDE

Call for Reviews

CollateX
and experiments with CollateX



Condorcet workshop 2019 (Paris):
Digital Philology and Medieval Text Processing Workflow


[slides: elespdn.github.io/talks/20190117_condorcet.html]
  • 1.a. Short intro to CollateX

  • 1.b. Demo / hands-on

  • 2. Identifying categories of variants
1.a. Short intro to CollateX

Collation

comparison of two or more texts in order to find similarities and differences

Semi-automated collation

since the '60s

Prerequisites

digital texts

Tools


Among the most used ...

Gothenburg's model

Cost Action Interedition, 2009

(Juxta + CollateX)


  1. Tokenization
  2. Normalization
  3. Alignment
  4. Analysis and feedback
  5. Visualization

CollateX resources


  • Dekker, Ronald Haentjens, Dirk van Hulle, Gregor Middell, Vincent Neyt, and Joris van Zundert. 2015. “Computer-Supported Collation of Modern Manuscripts: CollateX and the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 30 (3): 452–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqu007.

  • Dekker, Ronald Haentjens, and Gregor Middell. 2011. “Computer-Supported Collation with CollateX: Managing Textual Variance in an Environment with Varying Requirements.” In Supporting Digital Humanities (University of Copenhagen, 17-18 November 2011).

Demo / hands-on


  • try the Demo on CollateX website https://collatex.net/demo/

  • (if you have Python3 on your machine) try the Python version. Follow the installation instructions and use the sample data and scripts provided in the Github repo
2. Identifying categories of variants

Substantive vs formal
(graphic and phonetic)
variants

http://boccacciocommedia.unil.ch










Silva, Georgette, and Harold Love. 1969. “The Identification of Text Variants by Computer.” Information Storage and Retrieval 5 (3): 89–108.

Robinson, Peter. Collate

  • dictionary, defvars
  • fuzzy match


1991, annunciato nella lista di diffusione Humanist
(dhhumanist.org/Archives/Virginia/v04/1240.html)
Robinson, P. M. W. 1989. “The Collation and Textual Criticism of Icelandic
Manuscripts (1): Collation.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 4 (2): 99–105.
github.com/elespdn/collation_spelling

CollateX
and experiments with CollateX



Condorcet workshop 2019 (Paris):
Digital Philology and Medieval Text Processing Workflow


[slides: elespdn.github.io/talks/20190117_condorcet.html]