Porphyry & Steatite: Software layers for sense makers in humanities

The aim of ARTCADHi, the transdisciplinary re-search network which designed Porphyry and Steatite software, is to experiment the feasibility of a digital hermeneutics. The main idea is to offer a digital place where scholars could build their in-terpretation about document corpora and confront it with the viewpoints of other scholars. In order to be easily confronted the viewpoints are mod-eled through a network of topics and document fragments inspired by the traditional methods for text criticism.