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A WORKSHOP FOR THE SOURCES

Read closely.
Work together.

Bring a reading and its evidence into the same conversation. Every shared revision reaches your editor; every contribution keeps its author.

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Read the text

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Inspect the evidence

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Review together

YOUR SCRIBA ACCOUNT

Enter the workshop

UsernamePassword

Scriba project roles are independent of classroom roles.

Editors lead individual projects. Use the Administrator link for account controls; it requires an administrator account.

Scriba registration and project applications

Project

Choose a project

Choose a project or create one to begin.

Tools & workflowTools

Specialist text and manuscript tools

Build your digital edition

FROM DIGITAL TEXT

Edit an existing text

Import a document or paste a passage, then read, revise and review together.

Continue an existing text

Open an imported text above; eligible sources can become a working edition.

FROM MANUSCRIPT IMAGES

Read a manuscript

Add page images, draw overlapping regions, and record letters, words and longer readings.

Begin without a digital text. You and your collaborators supply and review the readings.

Bring text and manuscript together

Connect a precise text passage to the image region that supports its reading.

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Source or passage

Shared work

Working drafts are shared from their first save.

Link text and manuscript

Text entryManuscript image

Opening checks the current image and text versions. The link is shared only after you save the annotation.

Create a project

Project title

Description (optional)

Question and editorial purpose

You will lead this project. Add sources first, then invite your collaborators.

Project team

Add a collaborator

Exact username

Enter your colleague’s existing Cursus username. Admission gives project access; classroom roles confer none.

Register a text or source

Title and passage referenceSource text, preserved as enteredEdition, source location and permitted usesRights status

This registers source text. Later changes use attributed proposals. Use Add image for preserved PNG or JPEG intake.

Target source or passage

Proposal title

Proposed text or research noteEvidence and uncertainty

Attach project evidence

Selection records your proposed evidence link; it does not certify a reading or clear rights.

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Saving shares this exact revision with your project and its editor. Unsent text has personal recovery options; it is not yet part of the shared record.

Add a source image

Add → Check → Link → Review. Preserve PNG/JPEG/WebP up to 8 MiB or single-page TIFF up to 64 MiB. All images: at most 16 million pixels, 8192 per side. Supported WebP/TIFF creates a separate same-size PNG reading copy; quality remains unreviewed.

Original PNG, JPEG, WebP or single-page TIFF fileImage titleSource, capture and permission basisRights status

Sharing gives this project's active members access to the image and its source record. This does not publish it or verify its historical interpretation.

Personal draft recovery

These are your unsent recovery copies. They are not shared revisions and are not visible to the project editor. Share through the original form when ready. Image file selections must be selected again after recovery.

Also autosave private recovery copies on the server

Browser storage can be cleared. A chosen local file or server recovery copy provides an additional recovery option; none replaces a verified backup.

Load a personal recovery file

Take your work with you

Export project work

The native Scriba package preserves shared records and history, with a media inventory and checksums. Personal unsent copies are separate in Draft recovery. This is a private working package, not a publication or a rights clearance.

Export formatEditable export coverage

Import and begin collaborating

Preview before importing. A native package creates a new project with preserved imported history; it does not silently reinstate accounts, permissions or scholarly approvals. Other formats add sources to the selected project, keeping the exact uploaded original.

Import profileChoose a fileTitle for imported work

Read closely.
Work together.

Choose a project

Build your digital edition

Edit an existing text

Read a manuscript

Bring text and manuscript together

Link text and manuscript

Create a project

Project team

Add a collaborator

Register a text or source

Add a source image

Personal draft recovery

Take your work with you

Export project work

Import and begin collaborating

Preserved import originals

Editorial workspace

Read closely.Work together.

Enter the workshop

Choose a project

Build your digital edition

Edit an existing text

Read a manuscript

Bring text and manuscript together

Read closely.
Work together.