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Posting tips and sites
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I use subscriptions as an informal topic popularity meter: most postings on dm-l result in an average of 5 new subscriptions and 3 unsubscriptions. Postings on XSLT result in 5 unsubscriptions and 3 subscriptions ;). Interestingly, posting the unicode website resulted in no loss and some gain. Perhaps a gauge of usefulness? -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Vox: +1 403 381-2539 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 URL: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ Digital Medievalist Project: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/

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Re: Re: [dm-l] Letter database: languages, character sets, names etc
by Dorothy C. Porter 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I find it useful - and I was unaware of this site. I usually use the Unicode charts, but that can be tedious (since there are now five charts for the Latin alphabet). Thanks, Dan, for a great bookmark! Dot -----Original Message----- From: James Cummings <James.Cummings(a)computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> To: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 10:12:52 +0100 Subject: Re: [dm-l] Letter database: languages, character sets, names etc Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote: > I'm not sure if members of this list would find this type of e-mail > useful (please let me know if you do... or don't), but here goes: I find it useful. > > A common problem in text encoding is locating the correct codes for > "unusual letters". There are various utilities for doing this in > windows, mac, and Linux. But here is a useful web-based utility.You can > use it to look up character names and find their code point (though you > do have to be fairly precise), and it will produce the correct number in > hex and decimal formats. It will also tell you everything you ever > wanted to know about characters required for encoding Estonian. > > http://www.eki.ee/letter/ Well, ok, I actually I knew about this particular site. I've used that and of course there is the unicode site itself, especially the charts page. Also, most linux distributions contain a graphical character-map utitilty that is searchable. On of the things out of unicode recently is their report: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr22/ on CharMapML = Character Mapping Markup Language. Readers might also be interested in drafts of: TEI P5 Draft Chapter 4: Language and Character Sets: http://www.tei-c.org/P5/Guidelines/CH.html and TEI P5 Draft Chapter 25: Representation of non-standard characters and glyphs http://www.tei-c.org/P5/Guidelines/WD.html Just thought I'd add that in to Dan's comment. -James -- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk _______________________________________________ Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l *************************************** 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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Letter database: languages, character sets, names etc
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I'm not sure if members of this list would find this type of e-mail useful (please let me know if you do... or don't), but here goes: A common problem in text encoding is locating the correct codes for "unusual letters". There are various utilities for doing this in windows, mac, and Linux. But here is a useful web-based utility.You can use it to look up character names and find their code point (though you do have to be fairly precise), and it will produce the correct number in hex and decimal formats. It will also tell you everything you ever wanted to know about characters required for encoding Estonian. http://www.eki.ee/letter/ See also the Digital Medievalist Wiki entry for character encoding http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Fonts (to which I have just added information about this site). -dan

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[Fwd: Fwd: Re: timelines]
by Daniel Paul O'Donnell 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

Forwarded from Medtext-l. Does anybody know an answer?

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Re: [dm-l] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: timelines]
by Dorothy C. Porter 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

I sent this message to Medtext-l this morning, but it's of interest to this list, too. I've never used HEML, but it looks neat: Take a look at the Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (http://www.heml.org/). The stated goal of HEML is "to define XML elements that expose and outline historical events asserted in documents across the web and to parse and display these elements in interesting and useful ways." It's a markup system, not software, and you'd probably have to use some XML editing software to create your HEML documents, rather than any HEML-specific software, but it does appear to enable linking to digital objects using the <Evidence> element. HEML is designed to be combined with other markup languages, so if you already have your information in some form of XML (a TEI list, for example) you can add HEML markup on top of that using the heml: namespace. HEML also requires XSLT and/or SVG for viewing. This may be more or less than what you need, but check out the example files. They're pretty cool. Dot -----Original Message----- From: "Daniel Paul O'Donnell" <daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca> To: dm-l(a)uleth.ca Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:06:26 -0600 Subject: [dm-l] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: timelines] Forwarded from Medtext-l. Does anybody know an answer? *************************************** 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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DM editorial email address down.
by Dan O'Donnell 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Hello all, The editorial e-mail address for the digitalmedievalist project and journal digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca has been hit by spammers who are e-mailing us at a rate (200+ messages a day) that suggests they may be trying a denial of service attack (though why they'd pick on us is beyond me). The result is that we have very likely missed any legitimate e-mail sent over the last three weeks. Missed e-mails include e-mails sent directly to us or RSS announcements submitted via our on-line form. We are trying to work out a way of reopening the address or finding another way for people to get in touch with us. In the meantime, correspondence for the digital medievalist project or journal should be addresses to me personally: daniel.odonnell the-funny-little-symbol-above-the-2-on-US-keyboards uleth.ca ;) Sorry for any inconvenience. -dan -- -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta T1K 3M4 Canada Tel: +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 e-mail: daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca Web-Page: http://home.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell The Electronic Caedmon's Hymn: http://home.uleth.ca/~caedmon

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Kalamazoo 2006 session reminder
by Daniel O'Donnell 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hello all, Just a reminder to consider posting your digitally-oriented session proposals for Kalamazoo 2006 to our wiki page: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Kalamazoo_2006 As discussed at the business meeting, we will try to use this page as a lobbying tool to avoid over lap among 'related' sessions. Our goal is to provide the organisers with a list of sessions that are complementary and hence should not overlap. -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/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>

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Reminder about Digital sessions at Kalamazoo this year
by Daniel O'Donnell 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hi all, Just a quick reminder about the digital sessions at Kalamazoo this year: if you are attending the conference, you can print off the handy program in our wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/Kalamazoo_2005 I'd also like to remind those attending about our business meeting at noon on Friday in Fetzer 1060. Our goal for the meeting is to discuss ways in which we can go forward collectively. This might involve coordinating conference sessions at Leeds and Kalamazoo. Publicising projects via the DM site. etc. -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/> The Digital Medievalist Project: <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>

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Help in customizing the TEI DTD
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi all, after much dealying I finally accepted the idea that I will need to use a customized version of the TEI DTD for my project(s): I read the guidelines, but would surely appreciate any further help, can anybody point me to tutorials, examples etc. on the web? Has anybody had any luck in using Roma? I couldn't save my modifications as a DTD, is it going to remain a schema-only tool? Thanks in advance. Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)

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Another digital publication (a slight reprise, of what XSLT cannot do)
by Peter Robinson 23 Apr '05

23 Apr '05

Dear everyone In the course of the discussion on XSLT, I referred to the forthcoming Parliament Rolls of Medieval England -- indeed, a casual reference to this triggered Peter Baker's response, which fired the whole discussion. Anyway, this is now available at www.sd-editions.com, and there is a preview version of it at http://www.sd-editions.com/AnaAdditional/PROMEeg/Images/home.html. Among other things, you can view each parliament either by page (of the 1783 printed editon) or by membrane, or by whole text: you can see this in the sample from the May 1413 parliament of Henry V given in the web preview. best wishes Peter Robinson

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