Research services for digital editions
Are you planning a digital edition? The ZB has a wide range of expertise in this field. We are your practical and implementation-focused partner and can support you in creating digital editions: from digitisation and Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) right through to publication using the TEI Publisher.
The ZB’s services for digital editions
Discover what we offer: we’d be delighted to support you with your digital edition projects. Please get in touch if you’d like to make use of one or more of the services listed below. We’d be happy to draw up a proposal for your project and prepare a cost estimate that you can use for your research grant application or similar.
Digitale Produktion und Plattformen
- Cataloguing and metadata creation: If you wish to digitally edit ZB collections, we will create the necessary core metadata and, where applicable, further item- and project-specific details at the individual item level.
- Access to the GND authority data web form: As an editorial team, you have the option of independently entering GND authority data on individuals and institutions via a web form. We’ll show you how it’s done.
- Digitisation of the collections to be edited: Our digitisation centre digitises internal and external collections if these have not yet been scanned for your project.
- Full-text recognition / Automatic Text Recognition (ATR): We create machine-readable full texts (HTR/OCR) from your digital source documents (handwritten or printed). In addition to layout and word recognition, we offer proofreading of the automatically generated raw texts on request.
- Further text and index tagging in Transkribus and/or Oxygen: We are happy to share our expertise to help you tag other text features, such as underlining or strikethroughs, in Transkribus and/or Oxygen. We also create index entries for people, places and the like.
- (Assistance with) developing the editorial model: We are happy to assist you in establishing the editorial model, which sets out the guidelines according to which the texts are to be transcribed and annotated.
- Training in the tools used: We offer training in the use and operation of tools such as Transkribus or Oxygen. This enables you to work on your edited text in a targeted and efficient manner.
- (Assistance with) planning and setting up the front end, including publication: We contribute our expertise to the design of the front end and to clarifying questions regarding diplomatic transcription and the reading version, the display of digitised material, the various index functions and search options in full text and the index, etc. We can also take care of the technical set-up and publication using the TEI Publisher app.
Basic information on digital editions
Are you new to the field of digital editions? Are you looking for guidance on the steps involved in creating a digital edition and the factors to bear in mind? The following publications provide an initial overview:
- The Living Handbook of Digital Scholarly Editing. A Practical Guide for Editors and Users [link to follow]
- Proto4DigEd Handbook: Prototypical Workflows for Digital Scholarly Editions (DSE)
- KONDE White Paper
The Center for Digital Editions & Edition Analytics offers further support and information, particularly for editorial teams based at UZH.
The ZB’s digital editions
In close collaboration with the research and academic communities, we are currently carrying out three of our own editorial projects. We publish them using the TEI Publisher. Here you will find an overview of our editorial projects.
