Collaborative online research platform for scholars in humanities.

Manuscripts and scholarly editions are essential resources for humanities researchers. However, most of those resources do not exist in digital form or are not easy to access online. This forces scholars to spend unnecessary time and effort to conduct research on different versions of materials (physical and digital) from different sources. To solve this problem, we propose CORPUS -- a Collaborative Online Research Platform for Users of Scholarly editions -- to support scholarly research online in an efficient manner. To design CORPUS, we conducted contextual inquiries with 10 scholars in philosophy to collect user requirements and generate design ideas. An interactive prototype was developed based on the user requirements. Finally, we conducted a formal evaluation study with the same 10 scholars to test the usability of CORPUS.