Manuscript Web is a Virtual Research Environment developed as an open eXist-db application for publishing documents and their transcriptions in the form of a digital scholarly edition, allowing textual scholars to expose links and relations between a literary or historical work’s different versions.
This application is developed by Joshua Schäuble, a PhD student based at the University of Antwerp's Centre for Manuscript Genetics. Joshua is currently preparing a PhD in the field of Digital Humanities, supervised by Dirk Van Hulle and Wout Dillen.
Development of Manuscript Web started in 2017 as part of the DARIAH-VL VRE-SI, an FWO funded research infrastructure that was rebranded as CLARIAH-VL in 2019, when the Belgian representatives of the European ESFRI Infrastrcutures DARIAH and CLARIN decided to join hands. In 2019, further development of Manuscript Web was outsourced to the CATCH 2020 project as part of the University of Antwerp’s co-financing plan for CLARIAH-VL. CATCH 2020 (a medium-sized FWO infrastructure for the Computer Assisted Transcription of Complex Handwriting) will use Manuscript Web as a vehicle for its HTR-enabled transcription and text recognition tools.
