HFR Team

HFR (as well as its sister projects, especially TLH^dig) makes use of various tools developed specifically for the project that enable the creation, review, further processing, and presentation of the festival ritual texts in both the base corpus and the critical editions, as well as the function of other online offerings of HFR and HPM. The tools can also be partially applied outside of HFR for one's own textual research or to make texts available for online display on HPM. The purpose and use of the tools are briefly outlined here; links may lead to more detailed instructions and/or to the online version of the tool.

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SimTex

The SimTex (“Simple Text Input”) tool makes it possible to enter text by simple, often pre- existing text markings (such as capitalization, period or hyphen as character connectors), or by quickly adding a few additional markings (e.g. %, &, °, #, or _ ), to provide conventional transliterations of cuneiform texts with style sheets that tag the different parts of a cuneiform transliteration (publication/inventory number, column/line references, logograms, language, editorial notes, etc.). The produced documents (in fodt format) can be further processed with open-source or commercial office programs, or processed as xml files for numerous other information technology applications.

• Simtex online
• Simtex protocol

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KOR2

A large number of the conventions of HFR text transliterations can be automatically implemented by the KOR2 (“Correction 2”) tool. This tool is valuable for quality assurance and standardization in the HFR project. As its name implies, it was applied in the course of a second comprehensive correction process (after initial correction and photo-collation) in the HFR base corpus. It further processes the transliterations provided with style sheets, for example to replace obsolete readings of logograms with the valid ones, or to bring style markings in line with the latest technical requirements.

• (Online-Application in preparation)

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Annotation

The annotation tool automatically creates a lexical and morphological annotation of Hittite text transliterations, which are prepared as xml documents using the Simtex and KOR2 tools. A more detailed description of the annotation for HFR is located here.

• (Online-Application in preparaion)
• Abbreviations of morphological glossing (HTML or PDF).
• Annotation protocol