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By: Hayim Lapin

Hayim Lapin — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:36:29 +0000

For those who are keeping track, I have now edited this post twice to correct the fragment groups of Cairo Genizah fragments. Not sure what was going on with my brain when I first posted!

By: Hayim Lapin

Hayim Lapin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:05:50 +0000

If I understand the question, this is something that is undergoing revision. Gaps are noted in two ways. First, the actual lacunae are noted, and tagged with an estimated character length. Where there is no margin preserved on at least one side, however, my practice is to only mark the distance from the end or beginning of the line to the edge of a circumscribing rectangle around the fragment. My hope is that this will facilitate the “tiling” of multiple fragments. (The alternative is simply to divide the length of the expected text in half ….)
Second, and this is still under development, we plan to use xpointer to identify the corresponding start positions and end positions in a fragment on a “central” document. In theory (we have not implemented this yet), if the collation is reliable enough, we should be able allow the user to pull the text of any other witness to fill the lacuna. One could implement this in an “edition” format, pulling the missing text from a select witness, or a kind of diagnostic alignment table, allowing the user to see the possible range of variation etc.)

By: daniel

daniel — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:03:12 +0000

Very nice Hayim! Of course, the joins are a really nice “collateral” result of your work.
Do your pointers indicate the approximate size of the lacuna?
D’sh Hama