About Fontes
Fontes is a research programme at the Institute of Polish Language (IJP PAN) that produces digital editions, corpora, and dictionaries of medieval Latin sources from the Polish lands. This gateway is its public face: one place to find every tool, every publication, and every piece of news.
What you’ll find here
The gateway itself is deliberately thin. It serves static content and links out to the underlying apps. Editorial and data work happens elsewhere — here you navigate, read, and discover.
The app stack
Fontes is not a single application. It is a constellation of tools, each specialised for one job, tied together by shared data. The /apps directory lists every user-facing tool with a short description.
Data flow
Source XML, TEI editions, and lexical resources live in dedicated repositories
and databases. The editorial pipeline ingests raw XML, enriches it with
metadata, and publishes into the presentation layer. One store worth naming
explicitly is fontes-data — a Git LFS repository holding the raw and
intermediate XML that drives the pipeline. It is not a browsable app; it is the
shared substrate all the other apps read from or write to.
A simplified view:
- fontes-data (Git LFS) — source of truth for raw and enriched XML.
- fontes-editorial — pipeline and metadata management.
- editiones — TEI Publisher presenting scholarly editions.
- corpus — NoSketchEngine indexing the full corpus for search.
- edite — annotation and editorial environment.
- lexica / polilex — dictionary and lexical-data tools.
Contact
Project leads and contributors are listed on the team page. Bug reports and feature requests belong in the per-app repositories on scriptores.pl.