Creating a digital critical edition of a classical text with XML/TEI
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https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2532-8816/23486Keywords:
DL2, Digital Critical Edition, XML-TEI, DEPA, Textual Variants, Stand-Off MarkupAbstract
The paper analyses the feasibility of a digital critical edition of a classical text using XML/TEI, highlighting its limits and potential. After outlining the complexity of textual transmission, it discusses the two TEI methods for linking text and apparatus: Parallel Segmentation and Double End-Point Attachment. Within the RETI project, a variant of the DEPA method in stand-off mode integrated in EVT3 enables the representation of manuscript families, corrective hands, and witness hierarchies. Specific metadata classify variants by stemmatic relevance, making the constitutio textus process visible.
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