Visualizing STEP’s contribution to the Editorial Workflow as a Production Platform.It also comes with a suite of applications that enhance its usability: STEP Tools. That platform is called STEP, for Scholarly Text-Editing Platform. “Our practice” includes not only the practices in use in the Peirce Project or the IAT editions (each having adapted distinct methodologies to its respective author), but also those in use in other scholarly editions, especially those that handle complex texts: texts that mix graphics with scientific, mathematical, logical symbols, and the alphabets of various ancient and contemporary languages.įailing to find any comprehensive but specialized solution likely to remain usable across decades, we decided to launch the creation of a new production platform conceived by scholarly editors, leading a team of developers, for current and future scholarly editions. What we need is a highly customizable tool that conforms flexibly and yet exactly to our practice and workflows, not a tool to which our practice is forced to conform through inevitable compromises and painful workarounds. We have distinct tagging needs in each stage of our production process, from transcription to critical editing to layout, including all intermediary steps for proofing, revisions, and corrections, not to mention all the steps that go into building a comprehensive critical textual apparatus. What we need, in our distinct profession as makers of critical editions, is a sophisticated tool whose every aspect has been designed from the start to meet our practical typing, tagging, editing, and publishing needs. Time being of the essence, training must be fast and intuitive. Depending on funding, transcribers may come and go, and harried editors can’t afford to fathom how best to anchor tags for days on end. One reviewer wrote on the oXygen website that it was “the premier XML editor for geeks.” That is the core difficulty: shoe-string editions cannot afford to hire geeks, who are not good at transcribing texts without committing mountains of errors for lack of the right mindset. It takes time to get trained into them, and even more time to correct the work done with them (validation takes care only of encoding errors and does not reduce real errors that imperil the credibility of rigorous scholarship).
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All come with a steep learning curve and so many options that they fail to meet our practicality test, however. Their paragons, oXygen XML Editor, XMLSpy, and others, are versatile, powerful, and support every XML schema language, including TEI. Some were alluring, whether proprietary or open-source. We examined several solutions, in the US and abroad. We wanted something that took care of the tedium while also doing much more. Doing so for thousands of texts compounds the challenge.
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If transcribing a manuscript without tags is already difficult, producing a fully tagged transcription of a complex text riddled with deletions, insertions, and other textual niceties can be extraordinarily time-consuming and confusing.
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The solution we were looking for must be flexible easy to use, learn, teach, and implement and as foolproof as possible to decrease the possibility of transcription and encoding errors. One particular demand became overarching in this quest, driven by realism and practical bottom-line considerations. Faced with the need to revamp our technological infrastructure from the ground up in part because XML supplanted SGML as the dominant markup language, we began looking for a cross-platform non-proprietary durable solution, in phase with permanently expanding digital expectations. While remaining committed to print, the Project has long been developing plans for a different kind of online critical edition. Most such editions have been looking for ways to transition from print to digital while also complying with the standards dictated by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). International expectations have much evolved regarding the methods and technical requirements to be followed in the electronic production and dissemination of scholarly editions. The Peirce edition has reached a crossroad like every other edition. “We cannot make a machine that will reason as the human mind reasons until we can make a logical machine which shall be endowed with a genuine power of self-control.” Charles S.