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gentle introduction to XSL, CSS, and/or stylesheets generally?
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

Hi all, I'm putting together a list of background reading for a very compressed introduction workshop. Does anybody know of a good gentle introduction to XSL, CSS, and/or stylesheets generally I could refer students to? Obviously there are hundreds on the web, so what I'm looking for is a battle-tested recommendation. -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Ontologies and Anglo-Saxon England
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

In loose relation to Dot's posting the other day... [Forgive cross posting] As part of a project for which we are seeking funding (http://www.visionarycross.org/), we are looking into using ontologies as the basis for building a generalisable platform for connecting representations of Anglo-Saxon cultural objects, tropes, texts, and the like (the specific details of this approach, which we've been developing over the last year, are still too nascent to be reflected in the website). The idea would be to see if there might not be a way of building a common, discipline-wide, set of minimal ontological distinctions that museums, literary and historical scholars, archaeologists, etc. could then use to place their particular objects of study in the larger context of the work of everybody else who has used the same ontology. If any other groups are working on the use of ontologies to represent any aspect of the study of Anglo-Saxon England, I'd very much like to hear from you. I suspect at the moment people working on this are mostly likely to be in museums, libraries, or archaeology, but could be wrong. I'm considering putting together a grant application that would help fund the development of common standards and systems. Of course, with ISAS coming up, their might be some opportunities to meet in the next fortnight as well. Obviously at this stage, the idea is still fairly exploratory. -Dan O'Donnell -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidential) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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RDF in digital medieval studies?
by Dot Porter 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

Hello everyone, I'm looking for examples of projects in the digital humanities that use RDF for storing metadata. Does anyone on the list have examples of projects in the digital medieval studies that are using RDF? Many thanks, Dot -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Junicode font, version 0.6.17
by Peter Baker 12 Jul '09

12 Jul '09

For those who don't know about Junicode, it is an effort to provide a font that 1.) is free; 2.) is reasonably attractive; and 3.) contains characters of interest to medievalists which typically are not included in the products of commercial type foundries. There are several other very fine fonts for medievalists (notably Andron Scriptor and Cardo), but few offer matching bold and italic faces and numerous advanced typographical features. This version of Junicode includes substantial additions, bug fixes and design improvements. All of the recent medievalist additions to Unicode have now been added in the regular and italic faces. Almost all Medieval Unicode Font Initiative characters are now available in the regular face, and most of them in italic. Obsolete characters (those formerly encoded in the Private Use Area which have been assigned Unicode encodings) have been marked with an x to remind users to use the new encodings; a file called "replacements" has been provided to help users write scripts to automate the updating of their files. As an alternative, a new OpenType feature (ss03) has been added to make the necessary substitutions on the fly. This release is a big advance over the previous one, and I urge all who use Junicode to upgrade. Get it as http://junicode.sourceforge.net/. Best wishes to all, Peter Baker

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Seminar: "Edizioni Digitali alla ricerca di standards"
by Digital Medievalist: digitalmedievalistnews 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

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Teuchos - An Online Knowledge-based Platform for Classical Philology
by Digital Medievalist: digitalmedievalistnews 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

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Manuscript Imaging Question
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 07 Jul '09

07 Jul '09

Hi all, I thought I'd pass this on to our list and digital classicist, since some of us may have had experience with similar techniques (I'm relatively sure I saw a talk on the question recently). Please make sure you cc Dr. Wisnicki, since he may not hang out in our circles! I’ve come across a textual issue that I’m not sure how to resolve, and I’m hoping that someone on the list might have some suggestions or even the answer. I’m currently doing some research on the final African diaries of David Livingstone, the missionary and explorer. While keeping these diaries, Livingstone was often short of paper and, as a result, resorted to various expedients to keep the diaries going. One of these expedients was to take printed pages from books and newspapers, and, by turning the pages 90 degrees, to write his diary over the printed text, but perpendicular to it. Although perhaps legible at the time, these diary entries now are often difficult to decipher: Livingstone’s ink has faded and the printed text obscures what remains. So, in other words, the diary entries have two layers of text: printed matter which runs horizontally across the page, and Livingstone’s entries which run vertically. I’ve scanned some of these pages and was wondering if there’s a way (or, perhaps, a program) by which I might remove the printed layer so as to make the handwritten layer freestanding and so more legible. Has anyone on the list dealt with (and resolved) a similar issue? If so, please email me at awisnicki(a)yahoo.com -- any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Dr. Adrian S. Wisnicki Honorary Research Fellow School of English and Humanities Birkbeck College, University of London -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/

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Codex Sinaiticus at the British Library
by George FERZOCO 06 Jul '09

06 Jul '09

The world’s oldest bible reunited online ... http://www.bl.uk/news/2009/pressrelease20090703.html http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/project/conference.aspx Best wishes, George Ferzoco -- George FERZOCO gpferzoco(a)gmail.com

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Mingana collection launch
by Digital Medievalist: digitalmedievalistnews 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

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Fwd: [ANSAX-L] Call for Collaboration - e-codices
by Dot Porter 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

>From Ansax-L, may be of interest to folks on this list as well. Dot ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Damian Fleming <damian.fleming(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM Subject: [ANSAX-L] Call for Collaboration - e-codices To: ANSAX-L(a)listserv.wvu.edu I'm not affiliated with this program, just a big fan. They're soliciting requests for Swiss manuscripts which you'd like to see digitized. Visit http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en for details Damian Damian Fleming, Ph.D. Centre for Medieval Studies University of Toronto 39 Queen's Park Crescent East Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 Canada ********************************************************************* Reminder: For assistance write to Bill Schipper (schipper(a)mun.ca) -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Metadata Manager Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2444 Fax: +353 1 234 2400 http://dho.ie Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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