Display line-level variants across print/manuscript editions
Variant Viewer is a minimal Jekyll framework for displaying line-level textual variants across multiple editions of a print or manuscript document. Using this framework, scholars can help readers and students understand the ways in which historical documents changed over time.
To use the variant viewer for a project, please consult the quickstart section below.
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To run the variant viewer locally on your machine, you will need to install git and ruby on your machine. Once those are installed, you can run:
# clone the source code
git clone https://github.com/YaleDHLab/variant-viewer
# change directories into the source code repository
cd variant-viewer
# install the application dependencies
bundle install
# start the application server
jekyll serve
If this all goes well, you should be able to navigate to localhost:4000/variant-viewer/ in a web browser to see the source code in action.
The data for this application is defined in JSON files witin the _data directory. Please see the Wiki for descriptions of the data schemas of these files.