Hello All,
At last year's Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Member's Meeting, I (along with Peter Robinson, and Patrick Durusau of the Society for Biblical Literature) convened a Special Interest Group on Overlapping Markup issues. We haven't done very much since then, unfortunately, but Patrick and I are slowly working on a web page that will highlight various different approaches to dealing with overlapping markup and conflicting hierarchies. I'll post an announcement here when the page goes live - it's good to see that folks are so interested in this problem!
There is also an overlapping markup listserv, to join go to http://listserv.brown.edu/tei-ol-sig.html. (Also, if you're interested in reading the report from last year's meeting, you can find it here: http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Activities/SIG/Overlap/olm01.txt)
Many thanks to Daniel et. al. for putting this listserv together!
Dot Porter
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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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Hello all,
Sorry for my many postings today.
When the listserver crashed this morning it reset a number of options on
the list, including one important setting which I have just restored:
***When you hit reply on this list, your e-mail will be automatically
distributed to the list***. If you want to e-mail somebody privately,
you will need to enter their address explicitly in the address line.
This was the original setting, but it was changed this morning by accident.
This behaviour is the same as that found on ansax-l, and medtext-l, but
is different from that on tei-l. The main danger comes if you are
complaining about a posting to a friend. If you're not careful, you may
end up posting your comments publicly. Since none of us would do that,
however, we should be o.k.
-dan
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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/>
Does anybody have experience using the recent releases of MSXML? I'm
wondering in particular if their xslt is standards compliant. I
understand from the XML bible
<http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/chapters/ch17.html> that it is
or was not. Microsoft's own pages make it sound like the latest versions
might be
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm…>,
but it can be difficult to trust them sometimes.
I ask because a neat tool (Textpipe
<http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe.html>) I use has now
built-in XSLT, but depends on MSXML.
For those who don't know what I am talking about: XSLT (eXtensible
Stylesheet Language-Tranformations) is a stylesheet language used
(amongst other things) for converting documents written in XML
(eXtensible Markup Language) such as used by the TEI (Text Encoding
Initiative) into HTML for display on the web.
Once the web site is up, we should put all these acronyms into a FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) file. Does anybody know of a good existing
list of acronyms for beginners?
-dan
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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/>
As in the message line. Please excuse this test.
-dan
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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/>
Of course we no sooner start a list than everything goes kaplooey. The
University of Lethbridge has been having listserv administration
problems since about 10am Mountain time. This may or may not prevent
messages from getting through and is preventing me from accepting new
subscriptions. Hopefully it will be over soon.
-dan
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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 all,
I'd like to thank you for the great interest you have shown in this
list. I see that a welcome message I had set up to explain the list's
goals did not always go out. I thought I'd break the ice, therefore, by
mentioning a bit more about our goals for this list.
As I said in the notice announcing the list, <dm-l(a)uleth.ca> is the
first part of the Digital Medievalist Project. In its final form, this
will be a "Community of Practice" for medievalists working with digital
media. There will be a refereed on-line journal for research articles,
commentary pieces, project reports, bibliography, and reviews, and a
notice board/community centre where we will be able to exchange
expertise, establish and announce new projects, share tips, post
examples, and work together on common problems. Our designer is working
on the site right now. We hope to have it up by September, with the
first issue of the journal following later in the Fall. I'll be issuing
a cfp for some remaining slots in the first two issues of the journal
very soon. As some of you know, we also began sponsoring conference
sessions at Kalamazoo this year. We hope to do the same next year, and,
in the near future at Leeds.
Our goals for this list are similar to those for the project as a
whole. We hope that this will become a collegial forum for the exchange
of expertise and the development of best practice in the use of digital
media by medievalists. There are a number of other lists that cover
aspects of the material we will be discussing here (e.g. tei-l for Text
Encoding Initiative encoding matters; humanist-l for general aspects of
computing and the humanities). Our hope is that the distinguishing
feature of this list will be its focus on the practical needs of a
specific community rather than a specific topic. I.e. rather than
specialising in one aspect of research involving digital media, we hope
to serve as a clearing house and community centre for information on the
entire process of producing digital resources by people with an interest
in medieval studies. The topics covered, therefore, may be specific to
the middle ages (e.g. problems encoding or producing digital images of
manuscripts or archaeological artefacts), or of more general application
(e.g. questions involving interface design, or advice on tools). We
imagine our discussion will often involve material from other, more
specialised lists and resources, and encourage you to direct members to
these lists (and report back on the answers) when they are better suited
to the questions involved.
In short, the goal of this list is to build a community of people
with a common interest. By sharing expertise and information, we hope
gradually to improve the ability of all to work in the new media.
-dan
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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/>