Thanks to a Project Support Grant awarded by the ALLC this year, we have the opportunity to connect two related web services for stemmatological analysis of texts: Stemweb (https://github.com/Stemweb/Stemweb) provided by researchers at the University of Helsinki, and Stemmaweb (http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/) provided by the Tree of Texts project at KU Leuven in collaboration with the Huygens Institute.

After a meeting in Helsinki we have produced a white paper on our plans for interoperability, and we warmly invite comments or suggestions from any interested scholar, researcher, and/or developer. We intend to begin work in June, so comments received by the end of May would be particularly helpful.

The white paper is available here: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/?p=58

Comments may be mailed directly to the authors, or preferably added directly to the blog post for open discussion.

Best wishes,

Tara Andrews (tara.andrews@arts.kuleuven.be)

Teemu Roos (teemu.roos@cs.helsinki.fi)

Joris van Zundert (joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl)