Issue 11: Tools and Environments

Reledmac. Typesetting technology-independent critical editions with LaTeX

Reledmac https://ctan.org/pkg/reledmac (Last Accessed: 2019-07-21). Reviewed by Andrew N. J. Dunning (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford).

Reledmac, an open-source package for the LaTeX typesetting system, offers a reliable method to arrange text on a page with multiple levels of scholarly apparatus and commentary. Its straightforward interface and wide availability has allowed its use in several projects aiming to visualize an edition encoded in TEI XML in a printed format.

Tustep. Review of the Tübinger System von Textverarbeitungs-Programmen

Tustep - Tübinger System von Textverarbeitungs-Programmen https://www.tustep.uni-tuebingen.de/ (Last Accessed: 2019-10-01). Reviewed by Christian Griesinger (University of Wuppertal).

This review deals with the Tübinger System von Textverarbeitungs-Programmen called TUSTEP. It describes some of the principal functions of TUSTEP, outlines sample use cases and shows benefits and downsides. While TUSTEP is one of the oldest and long-lasting applications in the area of text processing, its flexibility and functional scope make it worth to…

Omeka Classic. Un environnement de recherche pour les éditions scientifiques numériques

Omeka Classic https://omeka.org/classic (Last Accessed: 2019-12-18). Reviewed by Elina Leblanc (Université Grenoble Alpes).

This review focuses on Omeka, an open-source Content Management System (CMS), which has been specifically designed for the management and the display of digitized historical content. Originally, this CMS was not intended for the creation and display of scholarly digital editions. However, the active community of Omeka’s users has developed several plugins…

Ediarum. A toolbox for editors and developers

ediarum http://www.bbaw.de/telota/software/ediarum (Last Accessed: 2019-10-15). Reviewed by Andreas Mertgens (University of Cologne).

ediarum.DB, ediarum.BASE.edit and ediarum.REGISTER.edit are the three currently released modules of the ediarum editing environment developed by the TELOTA initiative at the BBAW in Berlin. The set of two frameworks for the Oxygen XML Editor and one exist-db application aims to support digital scholarly editors in generating and annotating TEI-XML Data. The…

Juxta Web Service, LERA, and Variance Viewer. Web based collation tools for TEI

Juxta Web Service http://juxtacommons.org/ (Last Accessed: 2019-12-20). Reviewed by Torsten Roeder (Leopoldina).

The review presents and compares three open source and web-based text collation tools, namely Juxta Web Service, LERA, and Variance Viewer, and investigates their suitability especially for philological work with TEI. While all tools adequately fulfill the general requirements of text collation, each of them supports individual workflow concepts and…

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