We’ve recently collaborated with the Harry Ransom Center again to produce a screencast tutorial demonstrating the use of The Collaborative Rubáiyát, our eComma-driven online variorum edition of Edward FitzGerald’s five editions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. This online tool accompanies the Ransom Center’s exhibition ‘The Persian Sensation: the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam in the West,’ which will be open through August 2009. The Ransom Center intends to maintain the Collaborative Rubáiyát after the exhibition concludes, however, and the Ransom Center staff were interested in producing a video that could display the features of the variorum edition and its user-generated annotations.

This video was produced by Lee Tran, Daniel Zmud, and Katharine Beutner, with the assistance of Molly Schwartzburg and Alicia Dietrich. The video is hosted by YouTube; please feel free to share it with others and to leave comments here or on the video’s YouTube page. You can also view the video in a larger size/in HD on the YouTube page.