Working Papers are pre-publication versions of academic articles, book chapters, or reviews. Papers posted on this site are in progress, under submission, or in press and forthcoming elsewhere. Although, as far as we know, this is the first Working Papers series in the field of Classics, such series are very common in other academic disciplines.
This project on the textual hand-with-pointing-finger symbol--what I will call the "manicule" for reasons to be explored below--grows out of a book-in-progress called Used Books: Reading Renaissance Marginalia, which is the product of my long-standing interest in the marks that readers make in books, particularly during the first century or two after the invention of printing.
The Online Froissart also provides a number of advanced tools to unlock the riches of the resource. These include a collation tool allowing word-by-word comparisons, a search engine for simple and complex queries, a transcription viewing mode allowing users to go straight to entries in the online Dictionnaire du Moyen Français, and a dedicated manuscript viewer for manipulating the electronic facsimiles.
Treebanking is simply the act of writing down your interpretation of a sentence in the form of a linguistic annotation. All of it can be done online, and over 200 researchers from around the world have annotated more than 350,000 words of Classical Greek and Latin texts, including the entirety of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, all of the works of Hesiod and Aeschylus, Sophocles' Ajax, and excerpts from the works of Caesar, Cicero, Jerome, Ovid, Petronius, Propertius, Sallust and Vergil.