Amongst all the various digital resources available to experts in historical or legal research, a useful tool for the edition of glosses has yet to be developed. Because glosses, by their nature, cling to the text that generates them (i.e., the glossed work), they pose a number of specific editorial challenges: how should the relationship between text, glosses, and the sources cited in the glosses themselves be managed? Is it possible to manage and elaborate graphical connections between glosses and texts, or between different portions of comments that contribute to an understanding of the same work? How can the relationships between this data be conveyed in a critical edition? How can all the different characteristic data of the glosses be presented in a single critical document? In addressing the main issues related to the edition of glosses, this article proposes that the new XML-TEI encoding developed during the project of critical edition of glosses to the to the Constitutions of Melfi (1231) provides a useful solution. Alongside a presentation of the commands created for this new encoding, the article provides a practical example of data processing as well as graphical representations of the main tags created for the critical edition of glosses.
L’edizione critica di glosse tra discipline umanistiche e tecnologie informatiche
Michele Spadaccini
2022-01-01
Abstract
Amongst all the various digital resources available to experts in historical or legal research, a useful tool for the edition of glosses has yet to be developed. Because glosses, by their nature, cling to the text that generates them (i.e., the glossed work), they pose a number of specific editorial challenges: how should the relationship between text, glosses, and the sources cited in the glosses themselves be managed? Is it possible to manage and elaborate graphical connections between glosses and texts, or between different portions of comments that contribute to an understanding of the same work? How can the relationships between this data be conveyed in a critical edition? How can all the different characteristic data of the glosses be presented in a single critical document? In addressing the main issues related to the edition of glosses, this article proposes that the new XML-TEI encoding developed during the project of critical edition of glosses to the to the Constitutions of Melfi (1231) provides a useful solution. Alongside a presentation of the commands created for this new encoding, the article provides a practical example of data processing as well as graphical representations of the main tags created for the critical edition of glosses.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
