Dear DM-L Some readers may be interested in an AHDS information paper that we have recently released. It was written by Thijs van den Broek as part of his technical report on the possibilities of Benchmarking XML-editors.
http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/information-papers/xml-editors/
It is a highly subjective report and really concerns the perceived usability of the editors by different groups of people.
My preferred editors are tei-emacs and oXygen, by the way.
-James
Hello fellow DMs,
Just today I received the advance notice for the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7 2006. I'm looking forward to organizing a session or two for next year, and I'm sure others on the list are as well. Is there still interest in collaborating in some way to ensure that next year's technology-related sessions cover a wide range of topics, and to avoid scheduling conflicts?
Dot
********************************** Dorothy Carr Porter Program Coordinator, Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40391 859-257-9549 http://www.rch.uky.edu **********************************
Thanks for raising this Dot. I was planning to e-mail about it over the weekend.
DM has booked space for a business meeting on Friday May 6th at Noon in Fetzer 1060 in part for this very purpose. Our feeling was that it might be useful for various projects to meet face to face to plan subsequent events.
Of course much of this could be accomplished by e-mail in advance.
-dan
Dot Porter wrote:
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Hello fellow DMs,
Just today I received the advance notice for the Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7 2006. I'm looking forward to organizing a session or two for next year, and I'm sure others on the list are as well. Is there still interest in collaborating in some way to ensure that next year's technology-related sessions cover a wide range of topics, and to avoid scheduling conflicts?
Dot
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Don't forget the date for submitting session proposals for next year. From the Program:
If you want to organize a session(s): work through the appropriate
\organization and its representatives for a place as a Sponsored Session, OR with or without ad hoc group support propose a Special Session(s).
DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2005
Hi everyone:
I have a few questions that I would like to ask those of you have, are, or are considering electronic editing of medieval manuscripts, and recording paleographical information about the manuscript(s). I'm working on a project that has a focus on paleographical description, and I'm very interested in seeing what other projects are doing on this front. Is there a standard? Is a standard approach to paleographical description possible, given differing concerns, uses, etc.?
1. First, a brief description of your project.
2. What paleographical information are you interested in? Letter forms, abbreviations, ligatures, other?
3. What is your purpose for recording these differences? Searching, display, counting?
4. How are you recording this paleographical information? Markup (TEI or other), entities, Unicode characters, other?
You can reply directly to me, or to the list. I will synchronize all results of this little questionnaire and report back to the list. I think this would also be a good way to start populating the "Fonts, Characters, and Glyphs" section of the DM Wiki.
Thanks! Dot
********************************** Dorothy Carr Porter Program Coordinator, Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40391 859-257-9549 http://www.rch.uky.edu **********************************
The Digital Medievalist List (see end of message for contact
information and project URLs).
Hi everyone:
I have a few questions that I would like to ask those of you have,
are, or
are considering electronic editing of medieval manuscripts, and recording paleographical information about the manuscript(s). I'm working on a
project
that has a focus on paleographical description, and I'm very
interested in
seeing what other projects are doing on this front. Is there a
standard? Is
a standard approach to paleographical description possible, given
differing
concerns, uses, etc.?
There are two very interesting articles which touch in part on this in the Spring issue of DM, which is currently being mounted on the server and should be available after proofing by the end of next week. In alphabetical order:
Arianna Ciula, "Digital palaeography: using the digital representation of medieval script to support palaeographic analysis"
and
Kevin Kiernan, "The Source of the Napier Fragment of Alfred's Boethius" (which I know Dot is familiar with).
Ciula's article is the closest in relevance: it describes a quantitative approach to describing letterforms using a software tool, the System for Paleographic Inspections (SPI). In fact it discusses the question of (qualitative and quantitative) paleographic description directly and has a nice bibliography.
Kiernan's article is less directly concerned with description, but (to simplify greatly) uses imaging software to assess the authenticity of the Old English "Napier Fragment". It also has a nice bibliography
Dot Porter wrote:
First, a brief description of your project.
What paleographical information are you interested in? Letter forms,
abbreviations, ligatures, other?
- What is your purpose for recording these differences? Searching, display,
counting?
- How are you recording this paleographical information? Markup (TEI or
other), entities, Unicode characters, other?
You can reply directly to me, or to the list. I will synchronize all results of this little questionnaire and report back to the list. I think this would also be a good way to start populating the "Fonts, Characters, and Glyphs" section of the DM Wiki.
Amen to that.
-dan
Thanks! Dot
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Dear Dot,
Please find replies below.
Best,
Arianna
-----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Dot Porter Sent: 31 March 2005 15:38 To: 'Digital Medievalist Community mailing list' Subject: [dm-l] paleographical encoding
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---------------------------------- Hi everyone:
I have a few questions that I would like to ask those of you have, are, or are considering electronic editing of medieval manuscripts, and recording paleographical information about the manuscript(s). I'm working on a project that has a focus on paleographical description, and I'm very interested in seeing what other projects are doing on this front. Is there a standard? Is a standard approach to paleographical description possible, given differing concerns, uses, etc.?
1. First, a brief description of your project. My project is actually my Ph.D. research, so it is not an institutional project. It is focused on the experimentation of the System for Palaeographic Inspections (SPI) software suite developed at the University of Pisa to assist palaeographers in their attempts to classify and identify medieval scripts. The corpus I work on consists of a group of Tuscan manuscripts from the tenth- through twelfth-century now owned by the Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati in Siena.
2. What paleographical information are you interested in? Letter forms, abbreviations, ligatures, other? Models of letter forms (not necessarily of single letters, but even of connections of letters in the case of ligatures)
3. What is your purpose for recording these differences? Searching, display, counting? Characterise the calligraphic ideal for each script in a given manuscript, compare letterforms in different scribes' work, and define relationships among individual scripts and manuscripts.
4. How are you recording this paleographical information? Markup (TEI or other), entities, Unicode characters, other? Using SPI, as above, that is to say applying the computation of tangent distance to models of letter forms in bitmap format. I would like to incorporate TEI for the description of the manuscripts at a more general level.
You can reply directly to me, or to the list. I will synchronize all results of this little questionnaire and report back to the list. I think this would also be a good way to start populating the "Fonts, Characters, and Glyphs" section of the DM Wiki.
Thanks! Dot
********************************** Dorothy Carr Porter Program Coordinator, Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40391 859-257-9549 http://www.rch.uky.edu **********************************
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**please forgive cross-posting**
Hello Everyone,
Due to scheduling conflicts, the Kalamazoo session 263, "Advanced Technology in Medieval Scholarship" has been moved to an EARLIER TIME, and to an entirely DIFFERENT BUILDING:
Friday, May 6 10:00 AM Schneider 1265
Schneider is located directly next door to Fetzer. Please spread the word. We look forward to seeing you there!
********************************** Dorothy Carr Porter Program Coordinator, Research in Computing for Humanities 3-51/3-52 William T. Young Library University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40391 859-257-9549 http://www.rch.uky.edu **********************************
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