Developed by the Center for Digital Theology of Saint Louis University, in collaboration with the Carolingian Canon Law Project of the University of Kentucky, this new digital tool is a sophisticated web-based application that assists scholars in transcribing these manuscripts. T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) seeks to address both the accessibility and usability of digital repositories. Could it then be possible to make these digital manuscripts both accessible and highly usable? That process can easily mimic the same mistakes that the original scribe could make: haplography (omission of content between similar or identical words “saut du même au meme”), dittography (repetition of letters or syllables), duplication or omission (of letters, words, or lines), often caused by homoearcton and homoeoteleuton (similar beginnings and endings of words), and transpositions. Transcribers currently move from the image to a word processing application in another display window (either on the same screen or on a different monitor). Moreover, the current practice of transcribing from digitized pages can easily permit mistakes to occur. They can even make it difficult for scholars to extract what they often want most: a transcription of the manuscript’s content. This is completely understandable, but those viewers sometimes place limits on how a digital surrogate can be viewed. This has moved many sources that were once difficult to access into the “completely accessible” category.īut does that make them usable? Despite the desire to make many manuscript collection freely accessible, many digital repositories use “tiled-based” viewers in order to protect unauthorized copying of the collection. Instead, they can now sit themselves down in front of their laptop and display each successive page. Textual scholars no longer have to travel to distant countries for view the essential manuscript(s) for their research. One of the exciting turn of events for scholars has been the growing number of unpublished, hand-written documents now available on the world wide web.
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