The Workspace for Collaborative Editing
The Workspace for Collaborative Editing was a collaborative Anglo-German project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) between 2010 and 2013.The goal was to create an online workspace to support the creation of a new edition of the Greek New Testament, the Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, led by the Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster (INTF) and the International Greek New Testament Project (IGNTP). This was conceived as a replacement to the Collate software created by Peter Robinson, used since 1995 by both projects but now obsolete. The specifications included the creation of a user-friendly online interface to create XML transcriptions of New Testament manuscripts and a collation tool using the CollateX algorithm developed by the INTEREDITION consortium, with the integration of tools for analysis of the manuscript tradition (the Münster Coherence-Based Genealogical Method) and addition of patristic and versional material to the apparatus.