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This paper concerns the Charrette Project, a multimedia electronic archive of a medieval manuscript tradition. In this paper, we argue that the computer's strengths in manipulating complex and varied resources should be an important organizing principle in the conception and construction of electronic text projects. Specifically, we describe the elements of the Charrette archive, its architecture, and its potential for scholarly research and pedagogical applications.
Toby Paff is UNIX Systems Programmer at the Computing and Information Technology Center (CIT) at Princeton University. He has worked as Humanities Specialist and Manager of Information Access at CIT.
Peter W. Shoemaker is an advanced doctoral candidate in the Department of RLL at Princeton University. He is currently completing his dissertation, The Rhetoric of Patronage in Seventeenth-Century France.
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Gina L. Greco is an Assistant Professor of French at Portland State University. Her research interests include medieval intertextuality, Arthurian literature, and manuscript culture. She is currently a member of the Modern Language Association of America's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Research and Pedagogy.
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Greco, G.L., Paff, T. & Shoemaker, P.W. The Charrette project: Manipulating text and image in an electronic archive of a medieval manuscript tradition. Comput Hum 30, 407–415 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00057937
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