annotatepavese
What Does It Mean to Annotate?
In the PAVES-e project, “annotation” refers both to the development of an encoding model and textual representation, and to the semantic enrichment of the text through references, media links, and interpretive layers.
LEAF
To encode texts (especially letters and the correspondence), PAVES-e adopted a tool specifically designed for the representation of semantic relationships: LEAF Writer, an online XML & RDF editor developed within the Linked Editing Academic Framework.
Through its intuitive graphical interface, LEAF Writer allows for the easy insertion of elements such as <persName>, <placeName>, <orgName>, <title>, <rs>, <quote>, <term>, and <date>, starting from a TEI-encoded file (automatically generated by a simple Python script). The tool also enables immediate linking to VIAF, Wikidata, DBpedia, and GeoNames via dropdown menus.
LEAF was chosen not only for its semantic capabilities but also for its cloud-based collaborative editing via GitHub, which ensures document versioning, along with a built-in parser that validates the document and displays the raw XML code in a side panel.
Multimedia Commentary
A defining feature of digital annotation in literary texts is its multimedia dimension. Working with texts in a digital environment allows for the integration of different media codes, giving readers real-time access to images, sounds, and voices that have translated Pavese’s works into forms such as film, comics, music, podcasts, and more.
Podcast
Graphic novel
Other Media
Pavese has been portrayed through films based on his novels, documentaries about his life and landscapes, photographs, and illustrated books—a rich archive of multimedia reinterpretations that PAVES-e uses in targeted ways to comment on key passages from his works.
