dm-l June 2004

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What would people like to see in a primer and/or series of primers?
by Daniel O'Donnell 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

I've had a couple of off line responses to my question about a primer. This might be a good opportunity for participants at all levels of expertise to mention the types of thing they wish they knew (had known) in starting or completing various projects. It is important in a community like this that members not feel intimidated about raising simple questions or problems as well as complex or advanced. Don't be afraid to say what you think for the list as a whole! Cheers. -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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Experience with Full Text Searching
by Daniel O'Donnell 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

Hello all, I have another question for the collective wisdom. What are people's experience with full text searching. We are building an xml-ised database of original journal articles. These will be retrievable using metadata tags like issue, author, key words, subjects, etc. The problem is that building full text retrieval capabilities into the same search engine will ultimately affect display times. I guess I have two questions: a) is full text searching of academic articles a sine qua non? I used to think everybody did it, but I've been looking a bit more and see it is less usual than I thought in the case of larger libraries. b) have people suggestions for incorporating full text searching into a document database. -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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Hacks: an example.
by Daniel O'Donnell 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Speaking of hacks, here is an example of what I was talking about. It is from the <www.digitalmedievalist.org> website's screen css <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/dmlscreen.css>. b) Screen Geography */ div { /* controls width and location of all blocks except div.navigation and children */ margin-left: 20%; max-width: 35em; top: 0; } div.navigation { margin-left: 0; position: absolute; /* position: absolute is for MSIE only; the style is removed below */ top: 15px; left: 4px; width: 18%; } /* MSIE workaround */ /* This instruction hides "position:fixed" from MSIE5.5~6.0 */ body>div.navigation { position: fixed; } This is a harmless enough hack, I suspect (it would be better if the second instruction referred to "body div.navigation" to keep the two instructions exactly parallel). Currently it works; if MSIE later implements the > child rule, then it won't work for MSIE anymore, and users of MSIE will end up with scrolling navigation. I am beginning to wonder if it is not better, however, to design a sheet to the standard, and then allow users of MSIE to choose a simpler sheet if some effect doesn't work well in their browser. Comments? -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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[Fwd: The time has come to make some <choice>s]
by Daniel O'Donnell 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Hello all, I realise that many of us are on the TEI list and hence have seen this; it is an important question, however, and I thought I would distribute it here as well. If you are just beginning in computer applications, the issue is fairly advanced (though it has already come up), and you're not likely to write a position paper on it in the next 30 days; I hope in this one instance, you'll forgive me for not explaining it unless asked. -dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The time has come to make some s Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:20:35 -0400 From: Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman(a)BROWN.EDU> Reply-To: editors(a)tei-c.org To: TEI-L(a)LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS TO INFLUENCE P5! ---- --- ---------- -- --------- --- Over the last year there has been some public discussion of the "replacement Janus" mechanism for P5. The quick overview is that, in order to avoid putting content (which might need markup) in attribute values (which can't have markup), it has been suggested that we change the so-called Janus tags from things like <corr sic="adnire">admire</corr> <orig reg="w">vv</orig>ith <orig reg="w">vv</orig>hat charity the <abbr expan="Text Encoding Initiative Consortium">tei-c</abbr> to things like <choice> <sic>adnire</sic> <corr>admire</corr> </choice> <choice><orig>vv</orig><reg>w</reg></choice>ith <choice> <reg>w</reg> <orig>vv</orig> </choice>hat charity the <choice src="abbr"> <abbr>tei-c</abbr> <expan>Text Encoding Initiative Consortium</expan> </choice> The TEI Council would like to enlist the assistance of interested parties in helping them consider the issues involved. Therefore, this is a call for volunteers to write up a short working paper on the issues surrounding the use of the new mechanism and of the previous attribute mechanism. (Note that some have referred to the new mechanism as the "choice" mechanism, but the name of the element used in the examples above is not carved in stone, and is one issue the authors of this working paper may wish to address.) Current thinking is that a first draft of the paper should be ready by Sat 07 Aug, and the final version should be ready on Thu 16 Sep. Interested volunteers should reply to editors(a)tei-c.org. -- 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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palaeography and computing
by Arianna Ciula 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Dear all, as a Ph.D. student working on palaeography and computing, I find this mailing list very useful and I start my contribution with a question. Is there any sort of DTD designed with the purpose of describing a medieval manuscript, not just in its physical features as a global object, but in its palaeographical features? I mean any kind of XML grill and hierarchy able to encounter description and comments on the shape of letters, of ligatures and so on, even related just to one period and one handwritten style. I know the TEI guidelines and the efforts of some specific projects such as Digital Scriptorium, but none of them seems to me to go into the image with the granularity needed for a palaeographical analysis. Cheers, Arianna Ciula ---------------------- Arianna Ciula arianna.ciula(a)kcl.ac.uk

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wikis
by Jeffrey Fisher 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

i've been waiting to see if someone was going to reply to dan's suggestion last week about a wiki. after reading dan's post about publishing, open access, and community standards, i had been thinking that a wiki might be a good idea for this community. is the lack of response a rejection of the idea? or is it more about people being unfamiliar with wikis? in any case, it seems like a good topic to discuss. it might be a good public service for this list to put together a FAQ, as well. i know that's very 80s/90s usenet, but also at least worth thinking about, especially as more and more links to resources are posted to the list. dan: is it possible to get lethbridge to add search functionality to the list archives? that might help with keeping all this collective knowledge accessible down the road. just a thought. cheers, j jeffrey fisher ass't prof religious studies & philosophy bethany college bethany, wv

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Re: [dm-l] wikis
by Joris van.Zundert 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

Hi, I think you best would look at http://www.wiki.org and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb for some background information. In short Wiki is the simplest solution for an easy to use open access content management system. It's somewhat like a weblog anyone can contribute to, even if you don't know or don't want to know about HTML/XML. Hope this helps, y.s., Joris >>> J.deRuiter(a)bookmark.demon.nl 6/29/04 21:30:15 >>> > > is the lack of response a rejection of the idea? or is it more about > people being unfamiliar with wikis? > Scuse my asking. What is/are wikis? Jacqueline de Ruiter____________________________________ Zandhofsestraat 127, 3572 GE Utrecht +31(0)30-2734012 / 06-51510174 www.bookmark.demon.nl _______________________________________________ dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Re: Re: [dm-l] palaeography and computing
by Dorothy C. Porter 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

-----Original Message----- From: Murray McGillivray <mmcgilli(a)ucalgary.ca> To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:36:24 -0600 Subject: Re: [dm-l] palaeography and computing <snip> The thing that would be most helpful, actually, is a universally accepted "controlled vocabulary" for paleographic description, either verbal or in terms of graphical metrics (or ideally both), on which we could build descriptive structures in XML or whatever. I don't think paleographers are close to having that. ********** Last year I went through the introductions to several Old English facsimiles (Vercelli Book, Hatton 20, Junius 11, Royal 7 C xii; and Ker's Catalogue - whatever was easily available at UK) in an attempt to glean such a controlled vocabulary. It was an interesting experience - paleographers seem to have different terms to describe the same forms, and I found that many terms were rather vague and only made sense when I actually saw the letter in question (ascender "rises well above the bow" or "projects slightly to the left"). And these lengthy descriptions are not always suitable as markup. Dot *************************************** Dorothy Carr Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ***************************************

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PDF markup?
by Daniel O'Donnell 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

Hello all, A number of stylesheets seem to convert to PDF format. Where do you find out what PDF markup (if that's what it is) looks like? -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] PDF markup?
by MichelleZi＠aol.com 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

The newest versions of Word can convert any Word document into a PDF. From the trials I've done, they seem to look and function well. However, I haven't tried to make an interactive pdf or one with much graphics. Btw, they oddly put the pdf function key on the print menu. So you are 'print as pdf' or 'print to file'. I guess it is basically what the computer normally sends to the printer? Michelle Ziegler In a message dated 6/29/2004 11:47:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jeffrey Fisher <jfisher(a)igc.org> writes: >there are server utilities that convert html to pdf on the fly. i don't >think you can do that with a stylesheet. > >j > >On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote: > >> Hello all, >> A number of stylesheets seem to convert to PDF format. Where do you >> find out what PDF markup (if that's what it is) looks like? >> -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/> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dm-l mailing list >> dm-l(a)uleth.ca >> http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >> > > >_______________________________________________ >dm-l mailing list >dm-l(a)uleth.ca >http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l >

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