Something for us? Not really a standards-based question, but I'm sure a
fairly common problem.
-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/>
Conference Announcement
The third biennial conference on the topic of "Ancient Studies -- New
Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and
Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies" will be held
December 3-5, 2004, at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. As
before, the papers will cover a wide variety of topics, including:
* The Digital Museum;
* The Digital Classroom;
* The Digital Scholar
* Theory, Methodology, and Ideology
* …
[View More]Manuscripts, Collections, and Editions, and
* Research Issues
Further information about the conference, including the program and (soon)
abstracts, can be found at: http://www.cisat.jmu.edu/asnt3
For further information, contact:
Michael L. Norton
Computer Science Dept.
MSC 4103
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540) 568-2777
nortonml(a)jmu.edu
About the Conference
Classical, Medieval, and Byzantine scholars have long relied on academic
symposia and printed media to disseminate the fruits of their research. In
the last two decades, the Internet and the World Wide Web have made new
forms of publication possible. Electronic journals have been founded, such
as the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and the Medieval Review. Academic
websites, including De Imperatoribus Romanis, Perseus, Diotima, Electronic
Antiquity, ORB, Lacus Curtius, the Stoa, and the Medieval Sourcebook,
provide wide audiences with primary materials, scholarly studies, and access
to other resources. Search engines like Index Antiquus have been developed
to help navigate the rapidly multiplying opportunities of this new medium.
In spite of these advances, the Internet is just beginning to fulfill its
potential as a scholarly medium. This conference will address various ways
in which the World Wide Web is being, and can be, developed, in the fields
of Classical, Medieval, and Byzantine studies. Participants are encouraged
to use their imaginations in considering different ways in which the WEB can
help to promote ancient and medieval studies. Presentations are not only of
a theoretical nature, but also of a practical, "how-to", nature.
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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 …
[View More]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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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 …
[View More]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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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) …
[View More]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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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
…
[View More]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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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/
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/>
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 …
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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/>
>
>
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>http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
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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 …
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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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