The Hasidic Stories Browser – an alternative frontend to a TEI-Publisher corpus

The community meetings are held online using this link, usually on the first Tuesday of each month at 17:00 CET/CEST. No registration is required to attend. We warmly invite you to propose topics info@e-editiones.org for the forthcoming meetings.

Community meetup on September 02, 2025 at 17:00 CET.

A team led by Prof Gadi Sagiv at the open university of Israel is building an annotated collection of Hasidic stories published between 1814 to 1914. The stories have been OCR-ed and annotated (in the TEI-Publisher v7 annotator) for people, places and themes, resulting in an extensive TEI-XML corpus which is still expanding. To enable both close and distant reading of the corpus, a browser was built using standard programming frameworks and techniques (.Net Blazor, served from Azure) enabling a flexible and specialized UI and Ux, with complex and multilevel faceting. The browser incorporates TEI-Publisher HTML5 components to display the editions (facsimile and text) as well as the individual stories with additional information. Custom endpoints built with the TEI-Publisher infrastructure use XQuery to extract the relevant information from the corpus as a whole and from individual documents. It is hoped that this approach will enable additional non-standard displays of TEI-Publisher corpora when appropriate.

https://www.hasidic-stories.org/