Dan Mosser - 

I want to second the other Dan's request. I've toyed around with aggregating IMEV and LALME data for fully-digitized manuscripts, and also discussed using Google maps (with varying degrees of location specificity) for those entries with some people here on campus.  Originally, I had high hopes for aggregating data from Edinburgh's e-LALME site, which had promised a release last year. The project seems to still be delayed, unfortunately, otherwise one could use proper xml ID's for LPs and avoid duplicating large amounts of work.

Kind regards,
Matthew


Matthew Fisher
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles



On Aug 23, 2012, at 8:34 AM, "O'Donnell, Dan" <daniel.odonnell@ULETH.CA> wrote:

I wonder if your correspondents would mind your sharing their replies? This is a very interesting and current topic.
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Subject: [dm-l] Geospatial/Geodetic mapping of MSS

Thanks to all who have replied (off list, I think) to my query about linguistic mapping of Middle English MSS.

Dan O'Donnell asked for a sample of the markup. The DIMEV is an xml-based project. I haven't added mapping information as yet, but here is a straightforward example of the MS file with the <lang> entry:

<item xml:id="PhilUPEng8">
       <loc>Philadelphia</loc>
       <repos>University of Pennsylvania</repos>
       <desc>MS Codex 218 [formerly Eng. 8; <i>olim</i> Stonor Park]</desc>
       <lang><biblio key="LALME">LALME</biblio> LP 559 (<place country="England" county="Isle of Ely">Ely</place>: Hand A, ff. 1-146v); LP 551 (<place country="England" county="Lincolnshire">Lincs</place>:
           Hand B, ff. 147-195v)</lang>
   </item>

The LALME and LAEME keys are linked to full entries in the bibliography. I'm waiting for my coder to fit some time in for the style-sheet updates for this information.

Since I haven't, as yet, constructed a tagging structure for the mapping coordinates, I'm happy to have suggestions. Dan mentioned KML and Google maps, and that might be an easy way to proceed.

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