2017 article

CATview: The Colored and Aligned Texts Tool by M. Pöckelmann, Paul Molitor, and Jörg Ritter

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, Vol. 6, pp. 163–166.

By: P. Broyles*

TL;DR: CATview, developed within the Semi-Automatical Difference Analysis of Complex Text Variants (SaDA) project at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, is a JavaScript component that can be added to a digital edition to visualize the correspondence among parallel witnesses. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 14, 2023

CATview, developed within the Semi-Automatical Difference Analysis of Complex Text Variants (SaDA) project at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, is a JavaScript component that can be added to a digital edition to visualize the correspondence among parallel witnesses. The tool allows developers to add a simplified representation of the witnesses' alignment to the interface of a website, offering a quick, useful visual overview of similarities and divergences, and facilitating easy navigation of the edition.