The future of Stylo

The aim of this workshop was to define the roadmap for future developments of the Stylo text editor.

As a core element of the Revue 3.0 research project, it seemed important to think about a different deployment chain for Stylo. Until now, the developments carried out in Stylo have always been thought of as ending with a stable production version of an instance of Stylo hosted by Huma-Num.

During this workshop, we identified another need, that of being able to prototype new functionalities -- in particular in relation to language models and artificial intelligence algorithms -- to be tested in other instances of Stylo that we could consider as sandboxes rather than as essential instances to be maintained since they are shared by a community of users.

A set of specifications has therefore been drawn up to distinguish between a ‘stable’ production chain and a ‘sandbox’ production chain for prototyping new functionalities that we could, if necessary, integrate into Stylo's ‘stable’ production chain, according to the needs expressed by users.

This process will make it possible to distinguish between two types of development, both those of the stable instance, which continues to be improved as indicated by the work on redesigning the metadata section in the text editor or the improvement of document corpus exports; but also those of the sandboxes where we will try to generate keywords automatically from the text contained in the text editor or to create graphical representations from the bibliographic references in the corpora.

The workshop was organized by Roch Delannay and Antoine Fauchié.