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Creating a digital critical edition of a classical text with XML/TEI

Federica Lazzerini, Matteo Di Franco

Umanistica Digitale | May 21, 2026

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The paper analyses the feasibility of a digital critical edition of a classical text using XML/TEI, highlighting its limits and potential. After outlining the complexity of textual transmission, it discusses the two TEI methods for linking text and apparatus: Parallel Segmentation and Double End-Point Attachment. Within the RETI project, a variant of the DEPA method in stand-off mode integrated in EVT3 enables the representation of manuscript families, corrective hands, and witness hierarchies. Specific metadata classify variants by stemmatic relevance, making the constitutio textus process visible.

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Federica Lazzerini

first | University of Turin

Matteo Di Franco

last | University of Naples Federico II

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@article{Lazzerini2026Creating,
  title = {Creating a digital critical edition of a classical text with XML/TEI},
  author = {Federica Lazzerini and Matteo Di Franco},
  journal = {Umanistica Digitale},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.60923/issn.2532-8816/23486},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2532-8816/23486}
}

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