Dear Dot,
Please find replies below.
Best,
Arianna
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Dot Porter Sent: 31 March 2005 15:38 To: 'Digital Medievalist Community mailing list' Subject: [dm-l] paleographical encoding
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---------------------------------- 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. My project is actually my Ph.D. research, so it is not an institutional project. It is focused on the experimentation of the System for Palaeographic Inspections (SPI) software suite developed at the University of Pisa to assist palaeographers in their attempts to classify and identify medieval scripts. The corpus I work on consists of a group of Tuscan manuscripts from the tenth- through twelfth-century now owned by the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati in Siena.
2. What paleographical information are you interested in? Letter forms, abbreviations, ligatures, other? Models of letter forms (not necessarily of single letters, but even of connections of letters in the case of ligatures)
3. What is your purpose for recording these differences? Searching, display, counting? Characterise the calligraphic ideal for each script in a given manuscript, compare letterforms in different scribes' work, and define relationships among individual scripts and manuscripts.
4. How are you recording this paleographical information? Markup (TEI or other), entities, Unicode characters, other? Using SPI, as above, that is to say applying the computation of tangent distance to models of letter forms in bitmap format. I would like to incorporate TEI for the description of the manuscripts at a more general level.
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
********************************** Dorothy Carr Porter Program Coordinator, Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40391 859-257-9549 http://www.rch.uky.edu **********************************
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