EPPT Trial Projects

Edition Production and Presentation Technology (EPPT)

Edition Production & Presentation Technology (EPPT)

[The following independent, image-based projects have provided samples to help us test the generic value of the EPPT editing tools, designed to facilitate the integration of images and text through XML encoding. To see how it works, Install the EPPT following the instructions. After installation, you will be able to examine and assess how the tools serve the Trial projects, or you can start your own project with the aid of the relevant Tutorials.]

The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales Project plans to transcribe, collate and analyze the more than 80 fifteenth-century witnesses of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Samples of MSS Hengwrt and Devonshire are used in this trial.	The Vercelli Book Codex Vercellensis is an Old English collection of homilies and poems dating from the end of the tenth century. The sample used here is from Homily XX. The project is directed by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco.
Brižinski spomeniki - the Freising MSS In Scholarly Digital Editions of Slovenian Literature, Matija Ogrin and Tomaž Erjavec emphasize language (lexis, orthography, paleography, and pronunciation) in the earliest surviving Slovenian texts (c. AD 1000).	Chester Beatty Biblical Papyrus III. f.30 The Western Collections of the Chester Beatty Library contain a large collection of papyrus rolls from Antiquity. This sample, provided by Patrick Durusau, comes from a Greek Acts of the Apostles, 17:9-17, c. AD 250.
Roman de la Rose - Digital Surrogates This project, led by Stephen G. Nichols, has aleady mounted six different witnesses of the Roman de la Rose on its site. The samples used for the EPPT trial come from the Douce and Morgan manuscripts.	Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 25 This manuscript is an eleventh-century witness to a much earlier ninth-century Carolingian sermonary used by Anglo-Saxon preachers. Paul Szarmach and Thomas Hall are producing a digital edition.
Electronic Boethius This project is preparing an image-based electronic edition of the two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and a seventeenth-century transcript of Alfred's Old English Boethius. The project has also developed the EPPT and its suite of editing tools.	Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Led by Robert Englund and Peter Damerow, CDLI is an international effort by Assyriologists to give online access to the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 B.C., to the end of the pre-Christian era.
Henry III Fine Rolls The Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London intends to publish the Fine Rolls of Henry III from 1216 down to 1248 in English Calendar format, in both print and electronic form. The EPPT sample comes from membranes C. 60/8.	The Peasants' Revolt Andrew Prescott is beginning an image-based electronic project using materials in the Public Record Office relating to the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. The EPPT sample comes from records of the proceedings against the insurgents in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Visionary Cross / Digital Rood The Visionary Cross Project is creating a multimedia edition of three significant Anglo-Saxon artefacts: the eighth-century Ruthwell Cross, the late tenth-century poem, Dream of the Rood, and the mid-eleventh-century Brussels Reliquary Cross.	Epistolary Politics and the Poetic Miscellany The Devonshire MS is an early Renaissance miscellany of courtly poetry by Wyatt and Surrey, and others, including prominent women of the court, such as Mary Shelton, Margaret Douglas, Mary Howard, and Anne Boleyn.

[We provide the EPPT software for free, but with no guarantees of continued maintenance. If you download and use this software, we hope and expect that you will report bugs as you find them. We in turn will issue free software updates, announced on the EPPT-Users Listserv, as our limited time and resources permit.]

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