Subject: Re: [ANSAX-L] Digital Edition Interfaces
From: Kevin Kiernan <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:19:53 -0400

This is what Edition Production & Presentation Technology (EPPT), now  
called IBX (Image-Based XML), does -- see http://www.eppt.org.  It is  
free, open-source, and based on accepted standards (XML, Java, jpeg).   
It lets editors create digital editions using images, transcripts, and  
a dtd (usually TEI, but it is schema neutral).  It works on maps,  
artifacts, etc., in addition to manuscripts.  Rather than endlessly  
trying to invent something else that does the same thing, it would be  
smart of the humanities computing community to develop a standard  
presentation and publication format for editions using this free suite  
of development tools.

The reason Electronic Beowulf was able to weather the platform and  
browser storms is that we developed it around the browsers using  
standards.

Kevin

On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Foys Martin wrote:

> <[email-masked]> 03/18/09 4:23 PM:
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>  > is anyone looking for ways to stabilize presentation
> and interface?
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> This is part of the pitch for our  Digital Mappaemundi
> project that just got NEH funding. Providing a platform of
> updatable schema and an editing tool that users can adapt
> for scholarly editing of particular sets of images and
> texts beyond the original scope of medieval maps and
> geographic texts.
>
>
> ~ Martin
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> Martin K. Foys
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