Dear Arianna,
there exist as well resources of an European project on manuscript descriptions: MASTER (**Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records). The MASTER-DTD has been developed in close cooperation with TEI and therefore it may be to general for your purposes as well, but better have a look at it:
http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/master/
In the digitization project CEEC (Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis, www.ceec.uni-koeln.de) we adjusted the MASTER-DTD to our needs and therefore have slightly more elements/attributes for the physical description.
Within the project CEEC a colleague of mine, Patrick Sahle, developed a tool for palaeographical analysis. This includes an inchoate DTD, which because of the nature of the tool is meant only to cover measures and other physical characteristics. Unfortunately, the documentation is available only in German.
Greetings, Torsten Schassan ** Arianna Ciula wrote:
Dear all,
as a Ph.D. student working on palaeography and computing, I find this mailing list very useful and I start my contribution with a question.
Is there any sort of DTD designed with the purpose of describing a medieval manuscript, not just in its physical features as a global object, but in its palaeographical features?
I mean any kind of XML grill and hierarchy able to encounter description and comments on the shape of letters, of ligatures and so on, even related just to one period and one handwritten style.
I know the TEI guidelines and the efforts of some specific projects such as Digital Scriptorium, but none of them seems to me to go into the image with the granularity needed for a palaeographical analysis.
Cheers,
Arianna Ciula
Arianna Ciula arianna.ciula@kcl.ac.uk
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