CEED: a Cooperative Web-Based Editor for Critical Editions

In this paper some of the results of the ERC Advanced Project PhiBor project are presented. PhiBor’s main objectives are to produce a comprehensive inventory of manuscripts of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt, his main work on metaphysics, and to create on their basis a TEI P5 compliant digital critical edition. In order to permit scholars with little or no technical skills to produce a digital edition, we are developing CEED: a web-based critical edition editor. The main goal of CEED is to provide a user-friendly editor that lets scholars perform their work without requiring the acquisition of technical skills. The editor produces TEI P5 digital editions by leveraging the well known word processor approach. CEED environment is also meant to ease cooperation between scholars, since a project can be shared by several different contributors