The charrette project manipulating text and image in an electronic archive of a medieval manuscript tradition

This paper concerns the Charrette Project, a multimedia electronic archive of a medieval manuscript tradition. In this paper, we argue that the computer's strengths in manipulating complex and varied resources should be an important organizing principle in the conception and construction of electronic text projects. Specifically, we describe the elements of the Charrette archive, its architecture, and its potential for scholarly research and pedagogical applications.