I know several people on this list are working with maps. Apologies for cross posting. -dan

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: encoding maps, graphics with text? Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:25:48 -0700 From: Melissa Terras melslists@YAHOO.COM Reply-To: Melissa Terras melslists@YAHOO.COM To: TEI-L@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU

Hi Everyone,

I used a mozilla program called Grava to encode images of ancient documents, producing XML representations of the strokes found in the images. This was software originally developed to encode aerial satellite imaging, and was constructed by Dr Paul Robertson, formerly of the Robots Group, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Oxford, now at CSAIL, MIT. We have a paper detailing this in the next edition of LLC: Terras, M. and Robertson, P. (Forthcoming 2004). "Downs and Acrosses, Textual Markup on a Stroke Based Level". Literary and Linguistic Computing, 19/3.

Paul says that anyone can have a copy of the software to play with, should they wish.

Hope this helps

Melissa --- Julia Flanders Julia_Flanders@BROWN.EDU wrote:

Does anyone know of any projects which are using the TEI to encode materials that have substantial graphical content as well as text, e.g. maps, diagrams, that sort of thing? I'm interested in ways of making explicit linkages between specific locations in a digitized image and specific chunks of text in the encoded transcription.

Many thanks! Julia

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