Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 21, 2017 at 16:30 in room 234
*Issues in the development of digital projects based on user requirements. The case of Beta maṣāḥǝft* Dorothea Reule & Pietro Liuzzo (Hamburg)
"Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea” aims at building a research environment for data related to the Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript tradition, encoding and relating manuscript descriptions, editions of literary works and records about ancient and modern places and persons. The challenges of meeting data entry users’ needs are keeping the schema canonical while enabling all necessary encoding, developing visualization choices on an individual basis without twisting the guidelines and enabling the execution of some tasks without XML knowledge. End users will expect comprehensive information on manuscripts, yet the resulting resource catalogue, navigable between entities, can be disorienting.
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Full abstract: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017-08dr.html
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