The TIDO Viewer is a generic, highly configurable application for scholarly digital editions and other text-centered research outputs. It enables to explore, compare, and interact with historical texts, annotations, and relational structures. By decoupling the interface from underlying repositories or encoding practices, TIDO supports the creation of inclusive, open, and sustainable infrastructures for digital scholarship.
The viewer is designed to consume TextAPI as a client-side JavaScript application that can be easily embedded in a web project.
A defining feature of the TIDO Viewer is its configurability and hybrid workspace design. Its dynamic, panel-based interface allows users to engage with multiple versions of texts—diplomatic, normalized, variant witnesses, translations, or commentary—side by side, reflecting both scholarly interpretations and the needs of public participants. Users can explore cross-textual relations, intertextual links, and editorial alignments interactively, facilitating forms of analysis that are difficult in print editions and encouraging collaborative exploration.
TIDO further integrates high-resolution images of manuscripts and printed sources, enabling close engagement with primary materials. Layered annotations including critical apparatuses, linguistic analyses, or semantic markup can be selectively activated, allowing participants to focus on specific research dimensions while retaining access to the full richness of the edition. This integration creates a hybrid knowledge space, where physical and digital evidence, scholarly and public perspectives, converge to co-construct understanding.