Litgloss is a web archive of literary texts written in a variety of languages and lexically annotated to support reading comprehension.

With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University at Buffalo, the project team commissioned a web-based content-management system to house the archive and permit collaborative work. TEIRails, written in Ruby by Justin Leitgeb and Mark Josef, features a document workflow supporting clones, the ability to associate media files with documents, automatic document versioning, a web interface for reverting to previous versions, and a semi-automated mechanism for managing annotations. TEIRails supports TEI P5 and performs automatic document validation on uploaded texts. It also permits the creation of groups of associated texts.

Litgloss is completing content migration to the TEIRails platform and has begun new content development. At the TEI members meeting, we propose to demonstrate the features of TEIRails through the Litgloss implementation, and thereby both solicit feedback from experienced TEI users and encourage testing of the tool by others.