Collating

Collating

Collation is the process of comparing different versions of a text to discover the location and type of textual variants. Collation is fundamental to a variety of scholarly pursuits, for example in the Arts and Humanities field it can be used for the accurate reconstruction of texts of classical works. In the past collation was performed by hand; today, it is performed with the assistance of a computer.

There are three methods for collating texts:

  • Read two texts side by side and note the differences
  • Compare printed page images
  • Transcribe and compare transcriptions with aid of a computer.

Related methods include Content analysis, Stemmatics and Stylometrics.

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Projects/tools relating to this method:



Type Title Last updatedsort icon
Project Performance as a medium of learning in museums and at heritage sites - an investigation 18.08.2010
Project The Listening Gallery: Integrating Music with Exhibitions and Gallery Displays, Medieval to Baroque 12.08.2010
Project Jonathan Swift Archive 11.08.2010
Project Magnetic moments in the past: Developing archaeomagnetic dating for application in UK archaeology 22.07.2010
Project Who Were the Nuns? 22.07.2010
Project The British Book Trade Index on the Web 21.07.2010
Project Women in Modern Irish Culture 20.07.2010
Project An investigation into what constitutes a reproduction in the 20th Century, through the 19th Century collotype process 19.07.2010
Project The Cairo Genizah manuscripts: Taylor-Schechter Old Series and the Mosseri Collection 19.07.2010
Project The decipherment, description and online accessibility of 16,500 medieval Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Genizah manuscripts 17.07.2010
Project Pacific Pathways: Multiplying Contexts for the Forster ('Cook-Voyage') Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum 16.07.2010
Project Capturing the past, preserving the future: digitisation of the national review of live art video collection 16.07.2010
Project The Prehistoric Stones of Greece: a resource from field-survey 16.07.2010
Project The origin and spread of stock-keeping in the Near East and Europe 15.07.2010
Project Staging the Henrician Court 15.07.2010
Project The origin and spread of Neolithic plant economies in the Near East and Europe 14.07.2010
Project A Descriptive Catalogue of the James M. Carpenter Collection of Traditional Song and Drama 13.07.2010
Project British town maps, 1470-1895: a catalogue and cartographical analysis 13.07.2010
Project The Online Froissart Project 06.07.2010
Project Tibetan visual history 1920-1950: an online resource 05.07.2010
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