Workspace for Collaborative Editing

Development of a Digital Work Environment

Workspace

Project Management: Universität Trier - Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH)

Project Participants: University of Birmingham – Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) · Universität Münster – Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF)

Sponsors: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

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Contact person (TCDH): Dr Thomas Burch

References:

Sievers, Martin; Houghton, Hugh; Smith, Catherine : “The Workspace for Collaborative Editing.” Long paper at the conference “Digital Humanities 2014.” University of Lausanne. S. 210-211.

Research Area: Software Systems and Research Infrastructure, Digital Edition and Lexicography

Keywords: Tools for Editions, Religious Studies, Bibliotheken, Archive, Digital Technologies and Tools

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Website of the Project: Workspace for Collaborative Editing

The aim of the project was to design and develop a distributed digital work environment for collaborative editing. This was specially adapted to the requirements for the editing work of the two research groups involved.

The working environment supports the entire range of functionalities required by these two partners, e.g. within the framework of the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP): data storage and processing, the mass transcription of manuscripts in different languages, collation, the overarching analysis of relationships between the Texts, the printed publication as well as the publication on the Internet.

The Virtual Manuscript Reading Room (NTVMR), which connects the other building blocks with one another in a modular manner, serves as an introduction to the work environment. A project-specific XML format (TEI-based) was used as the exchange format.

The most important contribution of TCDH was the conception and development of the web-based graphical online transcription editor OTE by Yu Gan and Martin Sievers. The open source software is available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/wfce-ote/. The editing tool, which is based on TinyMCE and JavaScript, is used at the research institutes in Münster and Birmingham, among others, and was also further developed for the MuYa project.

Topics

digital tool box

Developing Software Systems

The software systems we develop together with humanities and cultural scholars are ergonomic and goal-oriented solutions to support individual and dynamic research projects effectively.

Technological concepts

Implementing Research Projects Digitally

We model text data and multimedia objects, apply our tools and establish procedures, design websites and ensure sustainable research data management.

give a common thread

Managing Research Data

You can achieve your research goals with professional data management.

open science

Open Science

Open Access, Open Source, Open Data as well as other terms represent a research sector with transparent approaches and freely available results.

Project management

Project Management

We consider our work processes to be an interface between technical expertise, knowledge-based services and humanities research in the range of Digital Humanities.

national research data management

Research Infrastructures

As is often the case, the key to success is cooperation. Together with our partners, we participate in international, national and regional research infrastructures.

Data preparation

XML / Web-Technologies

We consistently use generally accepted methods for the modeling, development and transformation of information.