IntraText
IntraText® is a tool that offers an intuitive but very accurate interface to browse texts in a hypertextual way, based on a Tablet PC interface.
The IntraText interface applies a cognitive ergonomics model based on lexical hypertext and on the Tablet PC or touch screen interface. It uses a set of tools and methods based on HLT (Human Language Technologies).
From the reader's point of view
IntraText is a reading, reference and search tool. It can be used to read a work, to browse a text as hypertext, to search for words and phrases just through a simple click of your pen or mouse.
Concordances, word lists, statistics and links to cited works are useful to drive your reading and to improve the knowledge of the text. You can freely move from reading to any of the other features, since relevant words in the text are linked to their respective concordances and then back to the text. You can use any of the search and help options of your browser.
The Tablet PC interface allows to browse and search without keyborad, just using the mouse of the computer or the pen ot touch screen of the Tablet PC. The ease of use and accessibility of IntraText are some of the most appreciated features.
From the publishing point of view
IntraText is a well structured tool to create and make available high quality electronic editions, particularly for the editorial, philological and linguistics aspects. IntraText editions can be published on Internet, Intranet or distributed on CD-ROM in several ways.
IntraText uses the lexical hypertextualization to define links between the text and the concordances of relevant words.
IntraText allows to reproduce faithfully the scholarly editions: footnotes (even when structured in several apparatuses), philological annotations, references to one or more different editions, distinction between the author's lexicon and the lexicon of other authors, several languages in the same text, etc.
Finally, IntraText allows intra- and extra-textual links to citations. Extra-textual citations are automatically linked when the cited work is available in IntraText edition.
Control of the editorial quality
The system that generates IntraText checks the text for several issues, according to a schema conceived to improve content quality and representation quality. In particular:
- lexical control: the system displays words not matching a reference vocabulary and creates a specific check list;
- footnote control: if the text has footnotes, the system verifies the correspondence between footnotes and references and creates a detailed report. This feature has been included as many IntraTexts have thousands of footnotes.
- multimedia element control (e.g. pictures): if the text has multimedia elements, the system checks whether each multimedia element file is available and generates a detailed report.
- references control: if a text links to other parts of the same text or links to other texts available in IntraText edition, the system checks the coordinates of each quotation (e.g.: "Mt I, 28"), listing them in a check list.
IntraText collections
IntraText allows to create text collections as a whole hypertext, for example the Opera Omnia of an author, corpora, etc. The IntraText collection creates a browsing system which preserves the identity of each collected text (author, title, structure, criteria for concordance reference) but unifies them through the concordances. In an IntraText collection, the TOC has two levels: the index of the works and, for each work, its own TOC.
External links
- IntraText Digital Library
- Resource Library and John Paul II Encyclicals on The Holy See site
- Bíblia Sagrada - Edição Pastoral