DIGITAL EDITING OF MANUSCRIPT TEXTS Zdeněk Uhlíř EMBARK Workshop Prague

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 ▼ CSS: correcting ▼ XSLT: automatic transformation ▼ HTML: user/reader

CRITICAL APPARATUS historical point of view  blablabla laudetur laudetur laudatur blablabla philological poinf of view  …

TEXT TO IMAGE CORRELATION blablabla ▼ linking of the text following after to the correponding image/digital copy of the leave "1v"

TEXT TO TEXT RELATION [author-text level] blablabla Augustinus hohoho blablabla ▼ [editor-text level] blablabla Augustinus Hipponensis: De civitate dei. In: PL, etc. hohoho 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 ♥☺♥