The Linked Editing Academic Framework - A Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities. Leaf is: Open-Source, accessible, scalable, standards-based, scholar-led, designed for extensibility and sustainability.
The LEAF Virtual Research Environment (LEAF-VRE) platform allows for the hosting of images, audio, and video alongside text to enable multi-modal collections and exhibits across multiple projects connected by interoperable data formats and content interlinking. LEAF-VRE supports individual scholars and collaborative teams, allowing project editors to establish roles, assign tasks, and manage workflows for complex editorial and production processes.
Projects with distinct landing, documentation pages, and dashboards.
Project collections can be explored separately or discovered through platform-wide searches.
User profiles; role and permissions management.
Workflow tracking and management; task assignment and communications.
Batch processing, e.g. ingest, OCR, downloads, exports for long-term preservation
Integrated LEAF-Writer for web-based rich semantic encoding of texts using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines, with the options to add linked data identifiers or web annotations.
Integrated LEAF-Turning Engine for transforming texts for import or export from LEAF-Writer.
Integrated Dynamic Table of Contexts reader for publishing online interactive editions that unlock the semantic markup of a text to enhance findability, navigation, readability, and analysis.
LEAF-Writer-Commons is part of the LEAF Commons tool suite, a set of web-based, modular, easy-to-use tools supporting text encoding, named entity recognition, web annotation, text analysis and publication without users having to learn markup/coding languages, and support easy movement between tools.