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[dm-l] Cross Posting: [Fwd: Re: encoding maps, graphics with text?]
by Daniel O'Donnell 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

I know several people on this list are working with maps. Apologies for cross posting. -dan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: encoding maps, graphics with text? Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:25:48 -0700 From: Melissa Terras <melslists(a)YAHOO.COM> Reply-To: Melissa Terras <melslists(a)YAHOO.COM> To: TEI-L(a)LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU Hi Everyone, I used a mozilla program called Grava to encode images of ancient documents, producing XML representations of the strokes found in the images. This was software originally developed to encode aerial satellite imaging, and was constructed by Dr Paul Robertson, formerly of the Robots Group, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Oxford, now at CSAIL, MIT. We have a paper detailing this in the next edition of LLC: Terras, M. and Robertson, P. (Forthcoming 2004). "Downs and Acrosses, Textual Markup on a Stroke Based Level". Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19/3. Paul says that anyone can have a copy of the software to play with, should they wish. Hope this helps Melissa --- Julia Flanders <Julia_Flanders(a)BROWN.EDU> wrote: > Does anyone know of any projects which are using the > TEI to encode > materials that have substantial graphical content as > well as text, > e.g. maps, diagrams, that sort of thing? I'm > interested in ways of > making explicit linkages between specific locations > in a digitized > image and specific chunks of text in the encoded > transcription. > > Many thanks! Julia > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- 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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Computers and Medieval Studies (fwd)
by James Cummings 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

FYI --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Medievalism (Kalamazoo) and Early Drama (Leeds) see http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jamesc/cfp.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:09:37 EDT From: Ralph Mathisen <N330009(a)VM.SC.EDU> Reply-To: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology <MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.uiuc.edu> To: MEDTEXTL(a)listserv.uiuc.edu Subject: Computers and Medieval Studies CONFERENCE REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS ANCIENT STUDIES -- NEW TECHNOLOGY III 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. All topics relating to the use of the web, the internet, and computer technology in scholarly and pedagogical endeavors are welcome. Sample topics of interest could include (but are not limited to) 1) the digital museum; 2) the digital classroom; 3) the digital scholar; and 4) theoretical issues such as "knowledge representation". 300-word electronic abstracts dealing with these issues and with other ways in which the WEB can help to promote classical, ancient, Byzantine, and medieval studies may be directed to Ralph Mathisen, Program Chair, at ralphwm(a)uiuc.edu and ruricius(a)msn.com (snail-mail: Department of History, 309 Gregory Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801). Deadline for receipt of abstracts is August 31, 2004. Programs for previous conferences may be consulted at http://www.roman- emperors.org/program.htm (2000 Conference) and http://tabula.rutgers.edu/conferences/ancient_studies2002/ conf_program.html (2002 Conference). The website for the upcoming conference is located at http://www.cisat.jmu.edu/asnt3. Ralph W. Mathisen Department of History, University of Illinois 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright ST, MC-466, Urbana IL 61801 USA Phone: 217-244-2075, FAX: 217-333-2297 Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity Administrator: LT-ANTIQ, NUMISM-L, PROSOP-L EMAIL: ralphwm(a)uiuc.edu or ruricius(a)msn.com Society for Late Antiquity Web Site: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc Geography of Roman Gaul Site: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/geogmain.htm Field Site: http://www.history.uiuc.edu/areas/lateantiquity.html

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early music notation
by Dorothy C. Porter 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Hi list, This is a message I sent as a reply to James Cummings on TEI-L, but I think it may be of interest to folks on this list as well (some of whom, I expect, will know more than me - I haven't studied medieval music since college). His original query concerned including the Medieval Encoding Initiative (MEI, http://dl.lib.virginia.edu/bin/dtd/mei/) as a module in the TEI. ******************** James (and list), There are at least two other prospective XML schemas for encoding music - Music Markup Language (http://www.musicmarkup.info/) and MusicXML (http://www.musicxml.org/xml.html). I can't speak to the technical pros and cons of including music markup as a part of TEI. I do think that it is something to consider, especially for, as you say, liturgical manuscripts (or other early manuscripts that include musical notation). Having looked briefly at all three of these markup schemas, though, it appears that all are designed specifically for modern Western musical notation - notes of determined length on a standard staff. This would be fine for encoding something like a 18th century hymnal, but less useful for 13th or 14th century notation (which might be on a staff, but rhythm is not always clear), and not useful at all for the earliest notation (basically squiggles written over the lyrics). It would be great to be able to describe these sorts of early notation beyond simply noting that they're there, but it doesn't appear that these schemas are designed with early notation in mind (at least not publically, yet). Does anyone on the list know more? Is anyone interested in pursuing some sort of notation extension/module to TEI? 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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CHUM changing focus and name
by Daniel O'Donnell 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Another piece of news beginning to show up on other mailing lists. Sorry for the cross posting to those who have received it multiple times. While this is a reasonable change in focus, I'll miss the old CHum, I must say. There were interesting markup articles every couple of issues (including, for example, one on metre last year and one in the latest issue on an "intertextual" tag and using multiple dtds). -dan *************************************************** LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION *************************************************** Editors-in-chief: Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Nicoletta Calzolari, Isitiuto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Italy Published by Springer (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer Verlag) We are pleased to announce that as of Volume 39 for 2005, Computers and the Humanities will be changing its name to Language Resources and Evaluation. Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the creation, annotation, and exploitation of language resources for use in language processing applications, corpus linguistics and linguistic studies generally, as well as evaluation of language processing methods and results. These areas have seen a dramatic increase in activity over the past decade, as evidenced by the growing attendance at the four Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences (LREC) held since 1998. Language resources include language data and descriptions in machine readable form used to assist and augment language processing applications and linguistic studies, such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc., as well as basic software tools for their acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and use. Evaluation of language resources concerns assessing the state-of-the-art for a given technology, comparing different approaches to a given problem, assessing the availability of resources and technologies for a given application, benchmarking, and assessing system usability and user satisfaction. Articles are solicited on the following topics: Design, construction and use of Language Resources (LRs): · Guidelines, standards, specifications, models, and best practices for LRs, · Methods, tools and procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, access, distribution and use of LRs · Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modeling data) from LRs · Organizational and legal issues in the construction, distribution, access and use of LRs · Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LRs · Monolingual and multilingual LRs · Multimedia and multimodal LRs and integration of various media and modalities (speech, vision, language) · Documentation and archiving of languages, including minority and endangered languages, · Ontologies and knowledge representation · Tools and methodologies for terminology and ontology building, term extraction, and creation of specialized dictionaries · LRs for linguistic research in human-machine communication · Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, speech dictation, translation, summarization, web services, semantic web, etc.), · Exploitation of LRs in different types of interfaces (dialog systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, etc.) · Metadata descriptions of LRs · Open architectures for LRs Human Language Technologies Evaluation: · Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LRs · Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures · Benchmarking of systems, resources for benchmarking and evaluation, blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems · Evaluation in written language processing (document production and management, text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarization, question answering, etc.) · Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, spoken translation, etc.) · Evaluation of multimedia document retrieval and search systems (including detection, indexing, filtering, alert, question answering, etc) · Evaluation of multimodal systems · Moving from evaluation to standardization Language Resources and Evaluation is the official journal of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), sponsor of the bi-annual LREC conference. The first number of LRE in 2005 will be a special issue dedicated to the memory of Antonio Zampolli. For information about this new title, aims and scope, manuscript submission, and subscription, please contact the publisher: Mrs. Jolanda Voogd, Associate Publishing Editor Humanities Unit - Linguistics Springer P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands Telephone: +31-(0)78 - 6576116 (direct) Fax: +31-(0)78 - 6576350 E-mail: Jolanda.Voogd(a)springer-sbm.com -- 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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MANCASS C11 Database
by Kathryn Powell 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Hello all, Thanks to Dan for cross-posting the announcement of the C11 database. All of us at MANCASS would be very interested to receive comments on the database from members of this group. Any very technical comments should be directed to the programmer, Dan Smith (daniel.p.smith(a)man.ac.uk), other comments to Don or myself. Best, Kathryn Kathryn Powell Research Fellow Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL UK (+44) 0161 275 3157 kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk http://homepage.mac.com/kapowe On 4 Aug 2004, at 17:46, Daniel O'Donnell wrote: > Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for > papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm > ---------------- > Hello all, > I don't think this has been posted on dm-l yet: > > The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies is pleased to announce > the availability of the MANCASS C11 Database, a tool for studying > scripts and spellings in eleventh-century England. The database is now > accessible at: > > http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/mancass/ data/index.htm > > or visit http://www.man.ac.uk and search for ‘MANCASS’, then follow > the link to the ‘C11 Database’. The database is the outcome of a > three-year AHRB-funded research project headed by Professor Donald > Scragg with Dr Alex Rumble. This freely accessible database allows > users to search a body of material from eleventh-century manuscripts > for particular spellings and spelling variants and to determine when > and in what context they were used. It also contains searchable > information about scribes and hands found in eleventh-century > manuscripts. The version of the database currently available is a > public beta version; please report any errors to the site's webmaster > via a link provided on the site. In the coming months, we will > continue to upload more eleventh-century material into the database > and will also add more material to the website providing guidance on > its contents and use. In the meantime, if you have questions or > comments, don't hesitate to contact either Don Scragg > (don.scragg(a)man.ac.uk) or myself (kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk). We hope > you will find the database a useful resource. > > On behalf of the project team, > > Kathryn Powell > Research Fellow > Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies > University of Manchester > Oxford Road > Manchester M13 9PL > UK > (+44) 0161 275 3157 > kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk > http://homepage.mac.com/kapowe > > -- > 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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FWD: MANCASS C11 Database, a tool for studying scripts and spellings in eleventh-century England
by Daniel O'Donnell 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Hello all, I don't think this has been posted on dm-l yet: The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies is pleased to announce the availability of the MANCASS C11 Database, a tool for studying scripts and spellings in eleventh-century England. The database is now accessible at: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/mancass/ data/index.htm or visit http://www.man.ac.uk and search for ‘MANCASS’, then follow the link to the ‘C11 Database’. The database is the outcome of a three-year AHRB-funded research project headed by Professor Donald Scragg with Dr Alex Rumble. This freely accessible database allows users to search a body of material from eleventh-century manuscripts for particular spellings and spelling variants and to determine when and in what context they were used. It also contains searchable information about scribes and hands found in eleventh-century manuscripts. The version of the database currently available is a public beta version; please report any errors to the site's webmaster via a link provided on the site. In the coming months, we will continue to upload more eleventh-century material into the database and will also add more material to the website providing guidance on its contents and use. In the meantime, if you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to contact either Don Scragg (don.scragg(a)man.ac.uk) or myself (kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk). We hope you will find the database a useful resource. On behalf of the project team, Kathryn Powell Research Fellow Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL UK (+44) 0161 275 3157 kathryn.e.powell(a)man.ac.uk http://homepage.mac.com/kapowe -- 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: Hi guy
by Patrick Conner 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

I send this for Bernard Muir, who has received the list's comments on the E-EB. --Pat Patrick W. Conner, Director West Virginia University Press P.O. Box 6295, West Virginia Univ. Morgantown, WV 26506-6295 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Voice: 304.293.8400 x4505 Fax: 304.293.5380 Email: pconner(a)wvu.edu Web page: www.wvupress.com

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CFP: Technology at Kzoo
by Dorothy C. Porter 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP sessions (I and II): Sponsored by the Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities, University of Kentucky International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 5-8, 2005 Paper submissions are invited on the topic of advanced technology in medieval scholarship. Proposals dealing with new uses of technology for academic research are eligible, as are proposals dealing with the development of such technologies. Possible subject matter might include, but is not limited to, the following: databases, imaging, statistical analysis, dictionaries/glossaries, online resources, library tools, etc. Send abstracts or queries to Dot Porter by email at dporter(a)uky.edu, or by surface mail at the following address: Dorothy Carr Porter Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0456 If you send an abstract by surface mail, include your email address so we can confirm receipt of your submission. Submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2004. *************************************** 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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Thanks for generosity and keep up the good work
by Daniel O'Donnell 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Hello all, I would like to thank all participants (we are a couple short of 200) for the great generosity they have shown in sharing software, techniques, and examples, on this list in its short life. This is exactly what I'd been hoping would happen, and I am pleased to see the very generous participation we have had. We are testing the website right now and with some luck will have it up in the next couple of weeks. This will allow us to build a FAQ and begin to formalise our collective experience. If you have tools, software, or techniques that you are willing to describe formally, may I suggest the forthcoming Digital Medievalist Journal? This might be an excellent forum for a brief description of your work. Cheers, -dan -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191

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Full text searching and Medieval languages
by David M. Mimno 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Here's some more detail on full-text searching using Lucene, which I promised several weeks ago. I've tried to focus on the aspects relevant to digital medievalists. Links to code are at the end. The Lucene FAQ provides technical detail on object models and APIs more accurately and succinctly than I probably could: http://lucene.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/faq/faqmanager.cgi First, here's a demo version of our Lucene-based search engine working on a collection of Classical Latin: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults.jsp?q=amo&target=la Lucene runs in two modes: indexing and searching. The indexing phase takes a set of "documents", such as a list of web pages or a directory of text files. This happens "off-line", every day or so. The searching phase occurs when someone types in a query. Lucene consults the index files and returns a list of documents that match the query. Order of Search Results By default, Lucene ranks matching documents using the following formula: the percentage of terms in the document that were search terms. This tends to favor short documents. It looks like it's possible to specify a sort order at index-time, but I haven't experimented with that feature yet. Lemmatization One factor that is very important for full-text searching languages like Latin, Old English, and Old Norse is word inflections. You need to be able to connect "amo" with "amabitur" and "amantes". We have approached this problem by caching a morphological analysis of every word that appears in the language corpus. The result is a mapping of inflected forms to dictionary lemmas. There are several ways to use this linguistic data, but the most effective (I've found) is to index the documents in their original, inflected form, and expand the query. In other words, if someone searches for the string "amo", the search wrapper program first lemmatizes the query ("amo#1"), then gathers all the known inflected forms of "amo#1" and joins them into one new query. You can see the effective query at the bottom of the search results page linked to above. The query expansion approach turns out to be very efficient. One not-terribly- fast desktop can, in one query, search for every form of three Greek verbs and return results within seconds. Homonyms are a problem, but I've found that they are fairly easy to weed out from looking at search results. Linguistic Data for Old English? I currently have inflected form-lemma mappings for Latin. I am in contact with some folks at UCLA who have made great progress working on morphological analysis for Old Norse. Does anyone know of other resources for that language? Finally, does anyone have a resource of this sort for Old English? It seems like the data could be extracted from the parsed corpora of OE, but I don't know if the (rather restrictive) licenses would cover that sort of use. Proposal: A Medieval Google Is there any interest in a general search engine for web-accessible medieval texts? If there were a list of URLs to indexable pages (provided by OAI or something even simpler), it would just be a matter of occasionally indexing them. The ability to search all surviving Old English probably exists for CDROMs and private databases, but is it available freely and publicly? Code Samples A wrapper for the indexing functions: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/Indexer.java A wrapper for query expansion: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/SearchResults.java A wrapper for the actual search results: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/SearchResults.java And JSP code to create a search results page: http://vermont.perseus.tufts.edu/public/search/searchresults.html

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