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Tools for textual scholarship
The purpose of this list is to keep track of the tools, within and without Interedition, that are used for text critical edition and textual scholarship.
Interedition tools
- Prototype collation tool
- CollateX development site
- Demonstration microservice: the TEI Tokenizer
Non-Interedition tools and reference links
Lists of tools for textual scholarship
Tools for data gathering about texts, traditions, and manuscripts
- Ars Edendi: a list of Greek and Near Eastern critical editions in progress
- EDENDA: a list of Latin patristic critical editions in progress
- Pinakes: Textes et manuscrits grecs - an online compilation of catalogues of Greek manuscripts worldwide
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Online version of the venerable reference for Greek texts and quotations. Useful for source and quotation analysis.
Tools for textual data creation
- ABBYY FineReader (Non-free software): Optical character recognition (OCR) software that handles a variety of non-Western printed scripts
- Classical Text Editor (Non-free software): a word processor specifically adapted for text critical edition and apparatus. Requires manual collation of manuscripts and text variants.
- eLaborate: a tool for transcription, annotation, and publication of manuscripts (Huygens Institute, KNAW)
- TILE: the Text-Image Linking Environment (Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities)
- T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation), a prototype of which can be seen in the edition of the Norman Anonymous (Center for Digital Theology, St. Louis University)
- Scripto: a tool for crowd-sourcing the transcription of documents online
- TextLab: a tool for transcription of manuscript images
- Codex Sinaiticus: a tool for displaying transcriptions with images. Software might be made available with some coaxing.
- Transcribe Bentham: a modified wiki environment for community transcription of the works of Jeremy Bentham
Tools for textual data analysis
- Juxta: software for the automatic collation, comparison, and visualization of differences among texts
- The Perseus Project: a variety of tools for Greek and Latin texts, e.g. dictionary lookup, text search, morphological analysis
- PhiloLogic: a suite of tools for text retrieval, search, and analysis. Also hosts many of the Perseus Project tools.
- Mobyle portal: collection of biological statistical tools, useful for phylogenetic statistical analysis
- FigTree: a tree viewer for the results of phylogenetic analysis (as produced, for example, by the Mobyle tools)
Tools for digital textual publication
- Versioning Machine: a tool for the display and comparison of collated texts in TEI format
- Anastasia: a system for publication (online or CD-ROM) of text editions in XML format