Textual Variance

The working group on genetic editions is part of the TEI special interest group on manuscript SIG:MSS.

A modular architecture for computer-aided collation tools
Developers of CollateX and Juxta met in 2009 at a joint workshop of the EU-funded research projects COST Action 32 and Interedition with the aim to agree on a modular architecture for collation software, so these two as well as similar projects would have a common base for collaboration. The participants identified the following 4 modules/tasks, which are essential to computer-aided collation and consequently might also need to be discussed in the context of encoding their TEI-compliant in- and output:

Tokenizer
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Aligner
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Analyzer
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Visualization
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Modelling textual variance

 * Multi-Version Document Format. Schmidt, D. and Colomb, R, 2009. A data structure for representing multi-version texts online, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67.6, 497-514. (See the related blog and the post “What's a Multi-Version Document?”.
 * Multi-Version Texts and Collation. Schmidt, Desmond. “Merging Multi-Version Texts: a Generic Solution to the Overlap Problem.” Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, Montréal, Canada, August 11 - 14, 2009. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 3 (2009). doi:10.4242/BalisageVol3.Schmidt01.]

Criticism of the current critical apparatus encoding scheme

 * Vetter, L. and McDonald, J. ‘Witnessing Dickinson’s Witnesses’, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 18.2: 2003, 151-165.
 * Schmidt, D., 2010. The inadequacy of embedded markup for cultural heritage texts. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25(3), pp. 337-356.

Computer-aided collation: Concepts and algorithms

 * Matthew Spencer, Christopher J. Howe. Collating Texts Using Progressive Multiple Alignment. Computers and the Humanities. 38/2004. S. 253–270.
 * Michael Stolz, Friedrich Michael Dimpel. Computergestützte Kollationierung und ihre Integration in den editorischen Arbeitsfluss. 2006.

Computer-aided collation: Software

 * Collate
 * CollateX
 * Juxta
 * NMerge