Hi everyone:
I have a few questions that I would like to ask those of you have, are, or are considering electronic editing of medieval manuscripts, and recording paleographical information about the manuscript(s). I'm working on a project that has a focus on paleographical description, and I'm very interested in seeing what other projects are doing on this front. Is there a standard? Is a standard approach to paleographical description possible, given differing concerns, uses, etc.?
1. First, a brief description of your project.
2. What paleographical information are you interested in? Letter forms, abbreviations, ligatures, other?
3. What is your purpose for recording these differences? Searching, display, counting?
4. How are you recording this paleographical information? Markup (TEI or other), entities, Unicode characters, other?
You can reply directly to me, or to the list. I will synchronize all results of this little questionnaire and report back to the list. I think this would also be a good way to start populating the "Fonts, Characters, and Glyphs" section of the DM Wiki.
Thanks! Dot
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