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Although EVT has slowly evolved into a versatile and powerful tool for publishing historical sources and literary texts on the basis of the XML/TEI format, none of the modifications - and periodic rewrites - of its code base has significantly changed the way in which edition data is handled. Even today, in fact, the main goal is to visualise and navigate such data, no doubt in a sophisticated way (support for multiple edition levels, support for named entities management, text-image linking), but in any case limited to what we might call “core functionalities” of a DSE. Texts encoded in XML/TEI, on the other hand, are a potential treasure trove of information just waiting to be interrogated and made available to the user. In this article I identify three use cases – the processing of special characters encoded by means of the and elements; the management of named entities, realia and other interesting elements of the text; the use of ontologies within an XML/TEI document – related to literary texts in Old English in order to propose a TEI encoding and a subsequent processing able to put the user in a position to receive answers to complex, transversal queries involving cross-links between different types of elements.

Edizione critica digitale del Codice Pelavicino, un manoscritto della fine del XIII secolo conservato presso l’Archivio Capitolare Lunense (Sarzana) e contenente diversi documenti tra cui il Liber Iurium della Chiesa di Luni. L'opera si compone di un insieme di testi di corredo, materiali di consultazione, le immagini del manoscritto e l’edizione critica vera e propria, ed è consultabile sul web grazie al software open source EVT. L’edizione digitale del codice consente lo studio del manoscritto senza richiedere la sua consultazione fisica e presenta tutte le caratteristiche – potenziate – di una tradizionale pubblicazione cartacea. Il sito che ne consente l’accesso è costruito per favorire la partecipazione di studiosi e appassionati al lavoro stesso di lettura e interpretazione dei documenti ivi trascritti., A digital critical edition of the Codice Pelavicino, a manuscript dating back to the end of the XIII century preserved in the Archivio Capitolare Lunense (Sarzana) and containing several documents, among which the Liber Iurium related to the Bishop of Luni. The edition includes several accessory texts, digitized images of the codex and the actual critical edition. The EVT open source software has been used to build the web-based edition. This digital edition of the manuscript allows to browse and study it without requiring physical access. It also presents all features of a traditional printed edition, enhanced thanks to the digital medium. The web site hosting the edition has been designed to foster participation and sharing of comments among all interested scholars and enthusiasts who intend to read and interpret the transcribed documents.

This paper aims at showing how integrating the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages (ALIM) into the ILC4CLARIN repository can provide mutual benefits. Making ALIM available to a large community of scholars and researchers, on the one side, represents the first step to reduce the lack of resources for Medieval Latin in CLARIN and, on the other side, constitutes an unprecedented contribution to not only linguistic investigations, but also to the studies of the culture and science at the basis of the Western European society. The paper describes the adopted approach aiming to keep intact the structure of the archive and its metadata, which are both accurately mirrored into the ILC4CLARIN repository in order to maintain existing access practices of the users. This structure can be found in exactly the same state within the CLARIN VLO. Finally, the paper illustrates the advantages of experimenting with some ALIM data, once introduced within the CLARIN Language Resource Switchboard service: first results are shown from the analysis of some texts with the UDPipe tool suite and the distant reading tool Voyant.