# Two workflows for the digital edition of the unpublished Elisa Chimenti's Corpus (Naples 1883-Tangier 1969)

Bianca Vallarano, Ada Desideri

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Bianca Vallarano, Ada Desideri. Two workflows for the digital edition of the unpublished Elisa Chimenti's Corpus (Naples 1883-Tangier 1969). IEEE CiSt'23 - 7th IEEE International Congress on Information Science and Technology- 3rd Conference on Digital Preservation and processing technology of Written Heritage, Dec 2023, Agadir-Essaouira, Morocco. pp.593-599, 10.1109/CiSt56084.2023.10409924. hal-04359862

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TWO WORKFLOWS FOR THE
DIGITAL EDITION OF THE
UNPUBLISHED ELISA CHIMENTI'S
CORPUS

(Naples 1883-Tangier 1969)

Bianca Vallarano (University of Naples L'orientale/ University of Lille)

Ada Desideri (Sorbonne University)
# Table of CONTENTS

## 1. Introduction

A. Elisa Chimenti

B. Why a digital edition ?

## 2. Workflows

A. WORD-HTML

B. XML:TEI-EVT

## 3. New proposition
Elisa Chimenti

1. Naples 1883 - Tangier 1969

2. Teacher, journalist and writer

3. Cultural and linguistic hybridization

4. Heterogeneous corpus

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**International associated laboratory on archives of female writing of the exile**
(Archives de l'écriture de l'exil au féminin), coordinated by Silvia Tatti (University of Rome La Sapienza) and Camilla Cederna (University of Lille), since 2018
Two digitisation workflows for a scholarly
digital edition of Chimenti's corpus
<figure><img src="image_3.png" /><figcaption># WORD-HTML workflow (Univ. of Lille)</figcaption></figure>
# TXT-EVT workflow (Univ. of Siena)

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# Advantages/Disadvantages of the two workflows

## WORD-HTML

* more laborious

* important group (humanists and computer scientists)

* audience : broader (student's)

* rich hypertextual paths

## TXT-EVT

* simpler workflow

* EVT makes the works simpler but risks also to limit it

* audience : scientific community

* complex critical edition (multiple apparatuses)
Comparison

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>transcription</th><th>annotation</th><th>pivot format</th><th>visualisation</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1°<br>workflow</td><td>WORD</td><td>WORD</td><td>XLM / XML-TEI</td><td>HTML</td></tr><tr><td>2°<br>workflow</td><td>TXT</td><td>XML-TEI</td><td>-</td><td>EVT</td></tr></tbody></table>
# New proposition

1. Transcription in txt format

2. Annotation of structural phenomena (inline in the txt file)

3. Generation of an XML-TEI file for this annotation

4. Critical annotation in XML-TEI

5. Visualisation

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# New proposition

## Advantages

* tiny and uniform storage of transcriptions;

* no proprietary software is strictly needed;

* going on in the digital processing of textes, waiting for publication;

* differentiate critical processing;

* keep possibilities open for the publication.

## Disadvantages

* critical annotation would be done directly in TEI

* difficult to read;

* necessity to be trained.

* difficult to modify the structural annotation at a later stage.
# Thank you !

## Patrie

Pour chacun de nous
un petit intérêt égoïste qu'on défend envers et contre
tous.

Il ne devrait y avoir pour tous les hommes
qu'une seule patrie, la terre

Elisa Chimenti, Miettes (Archives FMEC, unpublished)