Digital Classicist London 2017: 6. Elisa Nury
Channel: Digital Classicist London Seminars
Date: 2017-07-07

Elisa Nury (King's College London)
Collation Visualization: Helping Users to Explore Collated Manuscripts

Abstract and details: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017-06en.html

Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017.html

The comparison of manuscripts and recording of variant readings is an essential, but challenging task towards the preparation of a scholarly edition. A large amount of detailed data is collected during collation, and needs to be analysed and visualized. In the recent years, the use of digital format has been increasingly incorporated within the collation workflow: from writing down variants in Word or Excel documents to adopting complex automated collation tools such as CollateX. It has thus become necessary to display collation results on the computer in a meaningful way, which will help scholars to explore the collated manuscripts.