Chiara Di Pietro

Bio: Chiara Di Pietro is an academic researcher from University of Pisa. The author has contributed to research in topics: User interface design & Model–view–controller. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications receiving 49 citations.

Edition Visualization Technology: A Simple Tool to Visualize TEI-based Digital Editions

Abstract: The TEI schemas and guidelines have made it possible for many scholars and researchers to encode texts of any kind for (almost) all kinds of purposes, but this excellent standard is matched by an astounding diversity of publishing tools, which is particularly true when it comes to image-based digital editions. The different needs of scholars, coupled with the constant search for an effective price/result ratio and the local availability of technical skills, have led to a remarkable fragmentation: publishing solutions range from simple HTML pages produced using the TEI stylesheets (or the TEI Boilerplate software) to very complex frameworks based on CMS and SQL search engines. Researchers of the Digital Vercelli Book project started looking into a simple, user-friendly solution and eventually decided to build their own: EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) has been under development since about 2010 and has turned into a flexible tool that can be used to create a web-based digital edition starting from transcription files encoded in TEI XML. This paper describes why this tool was created, how it works, and developments planned for the future.

Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces

Abstract: The present volume “Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces” is the follow-up publication of the same-titled symposium that was held in 2016 at the University of Graz and the twelfth volume of the publication series of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE). It is the result of a successful collaboration between members of the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz, the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network DiXiT, a EC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, and the IDE. All articles have undergone a peer reviewing process and are published in Open Access. They document the current state of research on design, application and implications of both user and machine interfaces in the context of digital scholarly editions. The editors of the volume are grateful to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions for enabling not only the symposium in 2016 but also the publication of the present volume with their financial support. Special thanks are also due to the staff of the Centre for Information Modelling, above all Georg Vogeler, who contributed to the successful organisation and completion of the symposium and this volume with their ideas and continuous support. Furthermore we want to thank all authors as well as all peer reviewers for the professional cooperation during the publication process. Last but not least we want to thank the many people involved in creating the present volume: Barbara Bollig (Trier) for language corrections and formal suggestions, Bernhard Assmann and Patrick Sahle (Cologne) for support and advises during the typese ing process, Selina Galka (Graz) for verifying and archiving (archive.org) all referenced URLs in January 2018, Julia Sorouri (Cologne) for the design of the cover as well as the artist Franz Konrad (Graz), who provided his painting “Desktop” (www.franzkonrad.com/gallery/desktop-2008-2010/) as cover image. We hope you enjoy reading and get as much intrigued by the topic “Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces” as we did.

Progettazione e implementazione di nuove funzionalità per EVT 2: lo stato attuale dello sviluppo

Abstract: EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) e un software per la pubblicazione di Edizioni Scientifiche Digitali sul Web. Il suo sviluppo risale agli inizi di questa decade, e puo vantare una storia alquanto interessante: nato come una iniziativa di tipo didattico nell’ambito di uno specifico progetto di edizione digitale, nel corso del tempo si e evoluto in uno strumento flessibile apprezzato e utilizzato da molti ricercatori. La versione di sviluppo attuale si basa sulla beta che e stata pubblicata nell’ottobre del 2017: pur essendo molto piu ricca di funzionalita rispetto alla prima versione alpha (rilasciata nel luglio 2016) e ancora incentrata sul supporto per edizioni critiche. Una versione completa, con il supporto per edizioni di tipo diplomatico e diplomatico-interpretativo sara pubblicata nella prima meta del 2019. Questo contributo intende fornire un aggiornamento sui progressi piu recenti e anche proporre alcune considerazioni riguardo lo sviluppo di tale strumento, in particolare riguardo i problemi che si incontrano nel progettare un’Interfaccia Utente che deve organizzare in uno spazio bi-dimensionale un gran numero di elementi posti su livelli diversi; le nuove funzionalita che saranno introdotte nella prima versione stabile e l’impatto che avranno sugli utenti; la validita del metodo di sviluppo open source e i rapporti con altri progetti.

Between Innovation and Conservation: The Narrow Path of User Interface Design for Digital Scholarly Editions

Abstract: In 2016, the Edition Visualization Technology (EVT: evt.labcd.unipi.it/) team started the design phase necessary for the development of the next version of this tool aimed at easy publishing of TEI XML-based digital editions: the current version (EVT 1.2), in fact, only supports diplomatic transcriptions linked to the corresponding manuscript images; EVT 2.0 will fully support critical editions encoded according to the TEI parallel segmentation method. To reach this goal, a completely new approach based on the AngularJS framework and the MVC (Model View Controller) architectural pattern was necessary because the old architecture, relying on XSLT 2.0 transformations, was no longer flexible enough to meet all the UI and navigation requirements of critical editions. Furthermore, during the design phase we decided that in some cases keeping a layout inspired by traditional printed editions would be a great help for our final users. After a long but interesting development process, a beta version of EVT 2 is out: we believe that the UI layout and solutions we devised are both effective in the short term, for all the projects that will adopt EVT, and a significant contribution to the theoretical discussion revolving around the very concept of DSE.

Il Codice Pelavicino tra edizione digitale e Public History

Abstract: Il Progetto Codice Pelavicino Digitale ha come obiettivo la pubblicazione di un’edizione digitale, liberamente accessibile online, di questo importante manoscritto del XIII secolo. Nel presente articolo si intende da un lato evidenziare le caratteristiche dell’edizione ed i principali problemi che si sono dovuti affrontare, dall’altro presentare il modo in cui si e arrivati alla scelta del digitale all’interno di un ambiente, quello delle Accademie, degli Archivi ecclesiastici e degli storici locali, in genere molto restio ad accettare simili innovazioni. L’edizione e basata su uno standard internazionale per quanto riguarda la codifica dei testi, gli schemi e le linee guida offerte dal consorzio TEI, e fa uso del software EVT per generare il sito web che permette di consultare testo critico e immagini del manoscritto.

A Survey of Text Alignment Visualization

Abstract: Text alignment is one of the fundamental techniques text-related domains like natural language processing, computational linguistics, and digital humanities. It compares two or more texts with each other aiming to find similar textual patterns, or to estimate in general how different or similar the texts are. Visualizing alignment results is an essential task, because it helps researchers getting a comprehensive overview of individual findings and the overall pattern structure. Different approaches have been developed to visualize and help making sense of these patterns depending on text size, alignment methods, and, most importantly, the underlying research tasks demanding for alignment. On the basis of those tasks, we reviewed existing text alignment visualization approaches, and discuss their advantages and drawbacks. We finally derive design implications and shed light on related future challenges.