An Interactive Visualization for the Analysis of Annotated Text Variance in the Legendary Der Heiligen Leben, Redaktion

Abstract

The medieval legendary "Der Heiligen Leben, Redaktion" exists in two variants. As part of an ongoing digital edition project, the difference phenomena between these variants are manually annotated and categorized. We present an interactive, comparative visualization approach for the exploration of these annotation data with the goal of analyzing the nature of text variance in this work. The approach combines a set of coordinated close and distant reading views in an overview+detail design and provides means for category-filtering and detailed inspection of the data. We conducted a task and requirement analysis in cooperation of the involved medievalists and visualization researchers and sketch two scenarios of usage.