TEI and Scholarly Digital Editions: how to make philological data easier to retrieve and visualise

Autor: Martignano, Chiara
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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ISSN: 2532-8816
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7096927
Popis: In the past few decades the number of TEI-encoded scholarly digital editions (SDEs) has risen significantly, which means that a big amount of philologically edited data is now available in a machine-readable form. One could try to apply computational approaches, in order to further study the linguistic data, the information about the textual transmission, etc. contained in multiple TEI-encoded digital editions. The problem is that retrieving philological data through different TEI-encoded SDEs is not that simple. Every TEI-encoded edition has its own markup model, designed to respond to the philological requirements of that particular edition. The TEI guidelines, for example, show how the @type attribute can be used with the element to distinguish between different types of variants. However, every edition may have its own set of possible values, beyond “orthographic” and “substantive”, to markup a wider range of phenomena of the textual transmission. For this reason, it is difficult to identify the same types of data through different digital editions unambiguously. A possible way to simplify the retrieval of philological information from multiple digital editions is to link them to a same model that is able to represent SDEs on a more abstract level. This abstract model could be formalised as an ontology. Then inside different TEI-encoded editions it would be possible to add a further markup layer that binds each abstract component to the corresponding class of the ontology. There are already some ontologies that were created for representing scholarly edited texts [1] and, more specifically, the critical apparatus [2]. My goal is to use these existing models, as well as the TEI guidelines, to analyse different scholarly editions (both digital and printed) and identify all the abstract components of a scholarly edition. The final goal of this preliminary research is to lay a theoretical foundation for an abstract model that can help make philological data more visible and easier to retrieve. [1] http://e-editiones.ch/ontology/scholarly-editing. [2] ‘The Critical Apparatus Ontology (CAO)’. n.d. Accessed 18 August 2022. https://fgiovannetti.github.io/cao/.
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