From a collection of documents to a published edition: how to use an end-to-end publication pipeline

Presentation of the workshop

The goal of our workshop is to demonstrate how a digital literary corpus could be processed for publication with TEI Publisher.

The workshop participants will learn to experiment with a ready-to-use solution that provides an easy and quick publication of a corpus. They will also get tips and shortcuts to help speed up the creation of a digital edition.

By the end of the session, this workshop will provide the participants with a visualization of their respective corpus, with side by side transformed text and original image; all of which then showing what can be achieved while working with TEI in the context of an end-to-end publication pipeline.

The program for this workshop is the following:

• Firstly, it will start with a presentation of the pipeline, its objectives and how it works.
• Then, the time we have will be divided into several slots corresponding to every step of the pipeline. Each slot will start with a quick presentation of what is expected of the participants and what tools they will need to use.
• Next, they will be allotted some time to work with their data and to process them for publication.
• At the end of the day, a 30mn feedback session will make it possible for each participant as well as for the workshop organizers to assess the benefits of the session and envision further possible collaborations.

Tools introduced during this workshop

• Cantaloupe (Open-source dynamic image server for on-demand generation of derivatives of high-resolution source images): https://cantaloupe-project.github.io/
• eScriptorium (A Digital Text Production Pipeline for Printed and Handwritten Texts using machine learning): https://escriptorium.paris.inria.fr/
• Oxygen XML (off-the-shelf XML editing software, providing must-have tools, and covering most XML standards): https://www.oxygenxml.com/
• TEI Guidelines (Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange): https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
• TEI Publisher (Instant Publishing Toolbox, developped by e-editiones: https://teipublisher.com/index.html

Content of the repository

• images: folder of the facsimile for the first step; the images have been extracted from the Internet Archive [facsimile] and Wikipedia [picture],
• instructions: markdown files giving step by step instructions for each part of the workshop,
• scripts: XSLT and Python scripts to transform texts for the second step,
• alto and text: files for the second step,
• tei, text and xml: XML and TXT files for the third and fourth step.
• slides of the workshop

Bibliography

• Chagué, Alix, and Floriane Chiffoleau. An accessible and transparent pipeline for publishing historical ego documents. 2021. ⟨hal-03180669⟩
• Chagué, Alix, and Hugo Scheithauer. 2021. page2tei, an XSL Transformation to transform PAGE XML into TEI XML (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]
• Chiffoleau, Floriane, DAHN Project, Digital Intellectuals, 2020-2021: https://digitalintellectuals.hypotheses.org/category/dahn
• Chiffoleau, Floriane, Anne Baillot, Manon Ovide. A TEI-based publication pipeline for historical ego documents -the DAHN project. Next Gen TEI, 2021 – TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting, Oct 2021, Virtual, United States. ⟨hal-03451421⟩
• Kiessling, Benjamin et al. 2019. “eScriptorium: An Open Source Platform for Historical Document Analysis”. In: 2019 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Workshops (ICDARW). Vol. 2, pp. 19–19. DOI:10.1109/ICDARW.2019.10032
• Pierazzo, Elena. 2019. What future for digital scholarly editions? From Haute Couture to Prêt-à-Porter. International Journal for Digital Humanities, Springer, 1, pp.1-12. ⟨10.1007/s42803-019-00019-3⟩. ⟨hal-02117714⟩