LEAF-Writer Commons

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 interoperable tools. This freely available suite of tools supports digital scholarly workflows for the collaborative production and publication of scholarly and documentary editions, and collections on the web, without the need for software installation. The LEAF Commons suite enables the use of individual tools for specific purposes, or supports an end-to-end workflow from transcription to publication allowing it to serve a wide range of research and pedagogical uses.
LEAF stands for the Linked Editing Academic Framework, a collaborative software suite that provides a set of modular tools for text editing and publication. The LEAF Commons tools constitute an accessible, low-barrier, no-cost infrastructure for researchers to produce online texts, editions, or collections, whether for teaching or for undertaking research and collaboration on a sustainable basis. The LEAF Commons tools are freely available in the browser, enabling collaboration and publication through Github, in addition to permitting local storage or installation in a local stack. The LEAF Commons tools promote reuse of data methodologies in keeping with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles, LEAF uses open-source software, open-access platforms, and open international standards for best practices in text-encoding (TEI-XML) and web annotation (RDF).