dm-l October 2004

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New Server up and running
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

Hello all, Our Project RSS Server is now up and running properly. Please consider this as a tool for distributing project announcements, releases of new tools and utilities, or calls for papers. I hope to have a form up soon to allow you to submit material directly to the editors all ready for syndication. In the meantime, I'll handle formatting the announcements. Here's the minimum I would like from you if you have an announcement: 1) Title: A headline-type title for item (e.g. Project X Announces Y; Call for Papers: (session/topic X) at (conference Y)) 2) Description: I.e. the news item itself; you can add links and basic HTML structural coding (i.e. <p>, <ul>, etc.) if you wish. 3) Contact Person: Preferably with an email address; this should be you unless we agree otherwise (I don't want people being surprised to find they are the contact on something they knew nothing about) 4) Source of information (if not original to you), though most will be. I will assign a basic category to the news so we can search them later by class. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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New Server up and running
by Daniel O'Donnell 08 Oct '04

08 Oct '04

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Character reference conversions: help?
by Daniel O'Donnell 07 Oct '04

07 Oct '04

Hello all, I need some advice on converting Unicode character references. Currently, am encoding character references in what I believe is UCS-4 format (Universal Character Set). This means they look like this in my source files: ႐ I want to import xhtml documents into Open Office, which seems to need UTF-8 encoding (I don't know what UTF stands for). Does anybody know of a filter that might do the conversions for me? Or have advice on using open office (Windows version) with UCS-4 encoding? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Oops: forgot the link
by Daniel O'Donnell 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

Forgot the link to the page I meant: <http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Convert_character_references>. BTW: if anybody is interested in keeping track of changes to the Wiki, it is possible to receive recent edits and editions as a news feed. You log in, go to recent changes, and add the RSS link to your favorite reader. The DM main site news feed isn't working today for some reason. I've asked the boffins. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Database up again
by Dan ＠ PDA 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

Hello all, The site is up again. The problem was a system wide dbase issue. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell [/pda] Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax +1 (403) 382-7191 E-mail daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca Web http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Site has crashed
by Daniel O'Donnell 06 Oct '04

06 Oct '04

For some reason everything seems to have crashed. I've left an urgent message for the boffins, but they begin work in 30 minutes. Sorry, but there seem still to be a few bugs in the system. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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Re: [dm-l] Character reference conversions: help?
by Dieter Köhler 05 Oct '04

05 Oct '04

Hello Dan, You may use my Open XML Editor ("http://www.philo.de/xmledit/") to transcode XML documents from UCS-4 to UTF-8. The editor currently supports a couple of input formats, but only UTF-8 as output format. Loading the document and using the "save as ..." function should do the job. Be careful: just saving the document will replace the original with a UTF-8 version. Note also that this is not a simple character by character transformation. Instead, a model of the XML document is internally built and this model is then serialized. This implies that - the transformation might not work if the input XML document is not wellformed, - some additional normalization of the XML document takes place (in particular: whitespace between markup in the XML prolog, i.e. before the first tag, is normalized to line breaks, empty elements are expanded, e.g. <foo/> becomes <foo></foo>, and character references are expanded), - external entities are not transcoded. A step-by-step explanation in German how the transformation from UCS-4 into UTF-8 works is included in my draft about "Zahlen- und Zeichencodierung", available at "http://philo.de/lv/multimedia/codierung.html". Non-German speakers may find some useful links to English Web-pages about this topic there as well. Dieter Köhler At 12:53 05.10.2004 -0600, Daniel O'Donnell wrote: >Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: >http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm >---------------- >Hello all, > I need some advice on converting Unicode character references. > Currently, am encoding character references in what I believe is UCS-4 > format (Universal Character Set). This means they look like this in my > source files: > >႐ > >I want to import xhtml documents into Open Office, which seems to need >UTF-8 encoding (I don't know what UTF stands for). Does anybody know of a >filter that might do the conversions for me? Or have advice on using open >office (Windows version) with UCS-4 encoding? > >-dan >-- >Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD >Associate Professor of English >University of Lethbridge >Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 >Tel. (403) 329-2377 >Fax. (403) 382-7191 >E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> >Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/> > > >_______________________________________________ >Project web site: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ >dm-l mailing list >dm-l(a)uleth.ca >http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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A proposal for a commission
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Oct '04

04 Oct '04

Hello all, Now that the website is up and running, I'd like to propose a commission for the list: let's start writing a primer on humanities computing for medievalists. What I'm thinking of is using the wiki to write individual "chapters" and then combine them using a table of content wiki entry. This would also allow us to reuse "chapters" in different contexts (e.g. someone could add a TOC for "encoding medieval music" and reuse several already existing chapters). Since this would be a collaborative effort, the precise contents would be a fluid and collective decision. I can only know what I'd like to see (or wish I had seen some time in the past): -imaging: what it involves, whether I should/can scan from slides (what format), how much sharpening or colour-adjustment I ought to do, etc. -Fonts: what is unicode? how do I access it? are there other systems? where do I find fonts? are their standards? how do I encode fonts in my web pages (not I am being deliberately naive here). -Markup: structural vs. display vs. wordprocessing vs. text files: what's the difference? What should I keep in mind if I start a project? Why should I bother distinguishing between different types of italics using structural markup? Do I *have* to learn TEI? -Project management: what is the typical life of a medieval computing project? what kind of funding and/or expertise would I need? Can I do it on my own? are there resources/books I should know about? Is there advice for publishing out the other end? There are obviously many more questions and sub-questions one could ask. Is this something people would be interested in? Any suggestions for possible topics? Volunteers to start writing? The only thing I would ask if you are willing is that you sign your contributions by signing into the Wiki before editing. You don't have to, but this isn't a pure wiki: we are a collection of largely professional scholars whose business depends on responsibility. This would also allow us, if we were extremely pleased with the results, to publish a parallel version in some other format--assuming that's not a bad idea in some way I can't see. I am willing to coordinate activities to the extent that that is necessary. My first inclination, however, is to propose the project and see what happens. Other ideas? Suggestions for getting started? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> Home Page <http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/>

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