Hi Arianna!
Il lun, 2004-06-28 alle 16:51, Daniel O'Donnell ha scritto:
There are other members of the list who know more than I do about this. Roberto? -dan
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.
I can only add to the previous replies (by James and Dorothy) that there's a TEI SIG (Special Interest Group) devoted to manuscript transcription, this is the web site URL:
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Manuscript/
and this is where you go to subscribe to the mailing list:
http://listserv.brown.edu/tei-ms-sig.html
The list has been very quiet lately, but please don't hesitate to bring up the issues you want to discuss.
Ciao