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RIDE A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources

Issue 14: Scholarly Editions

Edited by Torsten Roeder and Martina Scholger. 2021-11. DOI: 10.18716/ride.a.14.

5 reviews in this issue.

Reviewing the bread and butter of CoReMa, Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages

CoReMA: Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages http://gams.uni-graz.at/corema (Last Accessed: 2021-04-31). Reviewed by Helena Bermúdez Sabel (Université de Neuchâtel).

CoReMa, Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages is an ongoing project whose method involves a semantically annotated, conservative edition of medieval manuscripts containing cooking recipes. With a rigorous philological approach and the aid of semantic web technologies, CoReMa’s method aims at teasing out the textual relations between different recipe…

Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion

Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion http://www.imss.fi.it/ms72/INDEX.HTM (Last Accessed: 2021-01-17). Reviewed by Anna Sofia Lippolis (University of Bologna).

Galileo Galilei’s Notes on Motion is a diplomatic digital edition most recently updated in 1999 that results from a joint collaboration between the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale and the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, both in Florence, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. It provides the digital edition of Galilei’s…

Digitale Edition der Augsburger Baumeisterbücher

Die Augsburger Baumeisterbücher. Digitale Edition der mittelalterlichen Stadtrechnungen von 1320 bis 1466 https://www.augsburger-baumeisterbuecher.de (Last Accessed: 2021-08-13). Reviewed by Franziska Klemstein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar).

This review focuses on the digital edition of the ‘Augsburger Baumeisterbücher’. The primary objective of the project is to make the sources from the period 1320 to 1644 accessible and usable and to provide a comprehensive index. In the following, the review describes the source material, the web presentation and the technical background. It locates the…

Decameron Web

Decameron Web https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/ (Last Accessed: 2021-06-15). Reviewed by Eleonora Peruch (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna).

Decameron Web (DW) offers an online digital edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron both in Italian and English language. It is a comprehensive information portal about the Decameron and the cultural, historical context of the time in which it was written. Thanks to its high usability and consolidated sustainability, DW has reached sufficient maturity and…

A comparative review of The Carlyle Letters Online and The Jane Addams Digital Edition

The Carlyle Letters Online https://carlyleletters.dukeupress.edu/home (Last Accessed: 2021-12-14). Reviewed by Elisa Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College).

The Carlyle Letters Online (CLO) and The Jane Addams Digital Edition (JADE) represent digital scholarly edition projects comparable in their scale (7 – 8,000 documents), their relationships with print editions projects, and their self-definition as a database. They differ remarkably in their methods of document curation, the organization of their contents…

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