The Alexandrian and Antiochene Bible Exegesis in Late Antiquity

History: Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller (GCS)

Source: https://archive.org/details/hippolytuswerke01hipp

Today

Publishing in the 21st century

Reuse – Analysis of data with your own tools

(Several data sets: editions, metadata, TEI schema, manuscript descriptions)

Reading – Reduced data presentation – Safe long-term archiving

Reading & Searching – Analysis of data with preselected tools

Project Plan

Training and Use of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR)

Why?

  • amount of manuscripts (and text to be transcribed)
  • manuscript transcription error prone

eScriptorium

The PTA as platform for digital critical editions (and beyond)

The PTA in a nutshell

  1. Publication platform (and tool) for Akademienvorhaben „Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike“
  2. Also archive for editions (in all languages, Christian texts from antiquity have been transmitted) and translations – also retro digitalised editions
  3. Focus: critical editions (with extensive documentation of the manuscript tradition to be able to evaluate editorial decissions)
  4. Data is open access (CC-BY, CC-BY-SA – some exceptions)
  5. Easy reuse of data (data publication https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/ + Zenodo; API [cts, git])
  6. Web publication (with several access routes and some tools)
  7. Using Standards: TEI (P5) (adapted Schema), CapiTainS Guidelines (CTS; structure of files/folders), normdata (annotations).

PTA: Data

Texts

https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/pta_data

Manuscript descriptions

https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/pta_manuscripts

Metadata

https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/pta_metadata

Edition guidelines

https://github.com/PatristicTextArchive/Schema

PTA Workflows

PTA: Web-Interface

https://pta.bbaw.de

Multiple approaches available

  • authors and works (texts)
  • manuscript descriptions
  • indices (biblical and other references, persons, places)
  • search (fulltext, distance; metadata)

Authors and Works

Manuscripts

Indices

Bible index

Persons index

Places index

Search (preview)

“Reader” interface

(2[4]-column; versioning)

Visualisation of metadata

Visualisation of metadata (sources, identifiers) and recommendations for reuse (citation, permalink, versions, license)

Visualisation of variants

Variant “apparatus”

Visualisation of annotations

Enrichment of annotations (here: biblical references, also: persons, places; using authority files)

Dictionary

(Preview: with analyzed data)

Manuscript transcriptions

Embedding of digitized images of manuscripts (via IIIF standard)

Manuscript database

Manuscripts overview

Manuscript database entry

Encoding guidelines

Digital Analysis using the data

Simple: Using your text editor

Search for quotes from Colossians in Severian using VSCode with opened pta_data-Folder

Stage 2: Using Python

Introductions

Jupyter-Notebooks

Thank you!

Contact

Dr. Annette von Stockhausen

BBAW, Akademienvorhaben „Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike“