On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:57:54 +0100 Arianna Ciula arianna.ciula@kcl.ac.uk wrote:
I'll try to explain better my needs. I'd like to have a kind of reference for the description of the morphology (meaning palaeographical shapes) of letters, ligatures and so on. I probably could build my own structure and try to express it using XML, but, before doing that, I wanted to look around and see if some more ambitious international project has already faced the problem.
So, when you say "where each glyph used in the manuscript including ligatures or junctures (sorted by hand and script) can be described, linked to a typical image or more and a transcription and transliteration"
what do you mean for "can be described"?
Do you have a set of possible terms to use in the description?
Cheers,
Arianna
Arianna --
The discussion so far about how to go about such stuff has been entirely TEI/logocentric in its approach to the data. For an alternative approach, you might also want to look into the work of Satoko Tokunaga and Tomohiro Kishida at Keio University, Japan.
They gave a fantastic talk last summer at Peter Robinson's New Technology/Old Text conference on “Computer-assisted analysis of Caxton's Typography," in which they demonstrate software they had developed for morphological analysis of individual characters. Very impressive stuff, and an important addition to the usual mode of trying to describe visual shapes through textual descriptions.
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