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Variants and Versioning between Textual Bibliography and Computer Science

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Angelo Di IorioAuthors Info & Claims

AIUCD '14: Proceedings of the Third AIUCD Annual Conference on Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2802612.2802614

Published: 18 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Some challenging questions arise today on the relations between textual bibliography and computer science: can philologists and computer scientists collaborate not only for encoding variants in digital form -- Critical Editions -- but also for interpreting these variants from a qualitative and quantitative point of view? Which are the potentialities of a critical approach to the textual bibliography, supported by versioning categories and tools? And, in general, are the studies of text variants fated to disappear or will computer science be able to provide new methods and tools to investigate the origins and evolutions of a text?

In this paper we address some of these research questions by presenting a fruitful collaboration over a qualitative analysis of the variants of the first chapter of "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni. PhiloEditor, a web tool for displaying and annotating text variants, successfully supported such analysis and introduced a new methodology that has been already successfully applied to the legal domain.

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Variants and Versioning between Textual Bibliography and Computer Science
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications

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AIUCD '14: Proceedings of the Third AIUCD Annual Conference on Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem

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DOI:10.1145/2802612

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Sabel H(2019)Encoding of Variant Taxonomies in TEIJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative10.4000/jtei.2676Online publication date: 2-Jul-2019
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Spadini E(2019)Exercises in modelling: textual variantsInternational Journal of Digital Humanities10.1007/s42803-019-00023-7Online publication date: 30-May-2019
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