What TEI-Comparator does and Wordsmith do are very different things. TEI-Comparator is basically designed to do one simple task: to say this id here in this file is the same as this id there in this other file. In pre-processing the files IDs are assigned to them which it then through fuzzy comparison attempts to match with similarly id’ed items in another file. It then provides a web frontend to allow someone to confirm these matches, or remove them.

TEI-Comparator is technically already up there on sourceforge in its first release beta, in the subversion archive, but we haven’t packaged it yet because it is missing documentation. (And it needs a bit more tidying up…) Basically one downloads the source and then builds a .war file to deploy under tomcat… so we’ll probably release it as a .tar.gz or zip or something because there is so much customisation needed for each use of it that it probably wouldn’t work well as a packaged .deb … but we’ll certainly explore that.

It will be released shortly before the TEI Members Meeting in November… when I’ve got around to writing more comprehensive documentation. ;-)

-James