The project Untangling the cordel (2020-2024) aims at studying and promoting a collection of 19th-century Spanish chapbooks via a digital library (DL). This resource is composed of digital scholarly editions of chapbooks and of a catalogue of woodcuts, which decorate the first page of almost all the documents. In this paper, after presenting the project’s editorial workflow, we focus our attention of the way we design the interface of this DL to represent the different facets of chapbooks (document, text and illustrations). For that, we have chosen to follow a method, proposed by Andrews and van Zundert in 2018, that consider an interface as an argument editors made about their data and their digital editions. Through this case study, we demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, where each component of an interface contributes to the scientific discourse a project made about its goals and its perception of digital editing. We also stress the impact of this method on user experience and on a project itself, as another way to see data and their modelling.
Elina Leblanc (Thu,) studied this question.