"Unlock Your Sources": Hands-On Workshop Interactive Collation of Multiple Text Variants Using LERA

Friday 14 Mar 2025, 11:00 → 16:30 Europe/Berlin

Online and Conference Room, 6th floor (mpilhlt at Turmcaree)

Polina Solonets (Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie)

Are you working with multiple versions of a text? Wondering how to compare different textual witnesses and what insights this could reveal? Curious about how digital tools can help you take a fresh look at historical material?

Then join us for a hands-on workshop on LERA, an interactive tool designed for analyzing differences and similarities across multiple text versions.

●     Learn directly from Marcus Pöckelmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), LERA’s creator, about its features and how it can support historical text analysis.

●     Hear from Manuela Bragagnolo (mpilhlt/ University of Trento), who is already using LERA in her research project HyperAzpilcueta, about real-world applications for comparing text witnesses across different languages.

●     Get practical experience in the second part of the workshop—bring your own texts (.xml or .txt) or work with those provided and explore LERA’s capabilities firsthand!

The first part of the workshop includes a presentation of the tool, followed by a testimonial from the HyperAzpilcueta project, and will be held in a hybrid format. The hands-on session will take place on-site at mpilhlt.

Come unlock the secrets of your sources—see you there!

lera_import.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 LERA Presentation

In a hybrid mode

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 16:30 Hands-on Session

On-site only