The research office: from a list of copies to a ready report

The “research office” in the Researcher plan turns a list of copies into a report ready for the introduction of an edition.

In this video

• Add any copy from the search results to your project, with its siglum (A, B, C…) and its level of importance.
• Examine each copy against the weighting criteria: proximity to the author, attestation and integrity of the text.
• Set the weight of each criterion yourself according to your method, so the copies are weighed and ranked by your judgement, not by a ready-made template.
• Document every judgement with its evidence: the place of the collation note, the text of the samāʿ (audition) note and a sample of the corruption.
• Rank the copies and choose the base copy; we suggest an order, the decision is yours, and every change is kept in a log.
• Record your own reading of the catalogue data and, if you wish, send it to Al-Mufahris.

1. Create a project for each book you are editing.
2. Add copies to it from search results or your bookmarks (up to 20 copies).
3. Choose the base copy and score each copy on eight weighting fields: date, script, audition notes, completeness, chain of transmission…
4. Record your notes on each copy.
5. Request a text report that gathers the copies, their criteria and their ranking, ready to paste into the edition's introduction.

The app suggests and never decides: the final judgement on the witnesses is yours, and the catalogue data is left untouched.