The Traherne Digital Collator

An email sent on the SHARP listserv by Dr Giles Bergel alerts us to the release of The Traherne Digital Collator 3.0. The collator was produced jointly by The Oxford Traherne and the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford. The Oxford Traherne, as their website is named, is the homepage of the project to edit and publish a critical edition of the works of Thomas Traherne (c.1637–1674). The 16-volume edition has been commissioned by Oxford University Press, and claims it will be the first fully annotated critical edition of Traherne. Clearly along the way these scholars have felt compelled to make more efficient the laborious process of comparing different printed editions of their study text. And lo and behold they have. “The software employs computer vision technology to automatically resize and overlay pages of books and other printed matter, correcting for differences in scale, perspective and page curvature.” They show this example: “Diff mode, showing base image in blue…