Readux

Post date: Feb 20, 2019 8:42:51 AM

Readux is a new exciting platform for reading, marking up, and publishing annotated facsimiles. It is an open source software platform developed at Emory University by software engineers and specialists in digital texts and digital humanities publishing. It is probably the collaboration of experts in these different skills (who sadly only too often work in isolation) that allows this project to be both slick in design and UI, thorough in the way texts are presented and intuitive in the way texts can be analyzed.The software offers a web-based space to engage with digitized print materials and provides a user-friendly way to publish critical editions as a stand-alone website and to develop interactive projects.

I originally reached this platform hoping to find a place to upload, maintain and publish my digital corpus but it seems there is no possibility of using the platform for your own sources (yet). What Readux does do is showcase sources from the archives of the Emory University Libraries. While looking through the catalogs of these, I saw they actually have quite a nice collection of Haggadot (albeit not that many with interesting English translations) but these are not presented on the Readux platform.

On the documentation page of Readux the developers wrote: "The Emory Libraries digitization team is happy to consider requests for materials to be added to the Readux collections. Scholars whose requests are approved should allow at least one month for processing." I think I will take them up on this and will request a Readux collection of Haggadot.