Abstract

Dedicated to the memory of Hans Cools who suddenly passed away in April 2021 in the middle of his thorough and fascinating work on Semantic Web Technology Some of the most tedious technical problems that a scholar in the digital humanities faces today is connecting multiple software solutions from various origins, supplementing the missing ones, and making the whole into a consistent and stable workflow solution. [1] The subject of the present article, Inseri, is neither a special tool for manuscript transcription, nor an easy-to-use TEI editor: it is a framework that can hold those software pieces together in a precise way and help the researcher with the dataflow from one step of the project to the other. The aim of the article is to present, on the one hand, the philosophy of Inseri, and, on the other hand, to go through the typical stages of a manuscripts-based critical edition project, following the flow and the transformation of the data.