DIGITAL EDITING OF MANUSCRIPT TEXTS

Zdeněk Uhlíř

EMBARK Workshop

Prague 25.08.2011

WHAT IS EDITING TEXTS

preparing a new representation of wording aspects

work: virtual entity document: concrete entity text: abstract entity

TYPES OF EDITION

pragmatical edition creating new representation on base of any former

record critical edition

creating the right wording of the text (canonical text – archetype – Ur-Text)

contextual edition finding intra-textual relations = individual style finding inter-textual connections = context sensu

stricto identifying trans-textual level = context sensu largo

EDITOLOGY

user-oriented reader or any other interested person truthworthy text/wording

editor-oriented scholar-resercher textology

APPROACH

historical text is transparent to other level of reality

philological text is a final reality

DIGITAL EDITION

open = not closed prepared for linking: context

unfinished = never finished prepared for both deeper work and

automatic processing: metinformation, transinformation

MARKUP LANGUAGES

XML eXtensible Markup Language internal/rational structuration of information metalanguage (in logical meaning)

HTML HyperText Markup Language external/visual structuration of information metalanguage (in logical meaning)

STANDARDS

TEI: Text Encoding Initiative for text encoding written in XML interoperable in frame of the digital

environment elements: for human user attributes: for machine user elements & attributes: virtualization of

information

METHOD

TEI XML: editor

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CSS: correcting

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XSLT: automatic transformation

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HTML: user/reader

CRITICAL APPARATUS

historical point of view blablabla

laudetur<note><app><lem>laudetur</lem> <rdg>laudatur</rdg></app></note> blablabla

philological poinf of view …

TEXT TO IMAGE CORRELATION

blablabla <pb n="1v"> blablabla

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linking of the text following after <pb> to the correponding image/digital copy of the leave

"1v"

TEXT TO TEXT RELATION

[author-text level]

blablabla <cit><bibl>Augustinus</bibl> <q>hohoho</q></cit> blablabla

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[editor-text level]

blablabla <note><bibl>Augustinus Hipponensis: De civitate dei. In: PL, etc.</bibl>

<q>hohoho</q></note> blablabla

FURTHER THINKING…

context levels collection item microtext motif

linking to other documents other resources

annotations interoperable environment various levels of information

THANK YOU!

Zdeněk Uhlíř

Zdenek.Uhlir@nkp.cz

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