Encoding and publishing the Life of San Teobaldo using EVT: challenges and rewards

This contribution aims at illustrating both the scholarly work and the development outcomes that have been achieved while working towards a digital edition of the Life of San Teobaldo (an hagiography of the patron saint of the city of Alba, Italy). The text, physically embodied in an ancient palimpsest scroll, has been encoded using the TEI-XML standard and published by means of the Edition Visualization Technology tool. EVT has been appropriately customized and extended with new features concerning image visualization, diplomatic edition display and textual search. A working progress demo is available at < http://licodemo.ilc.cnr.it/evt-rotulo >.