Arianna,
We (Research in Computing for Humanities at the University of Kentucky) are working on DTD and tool (called "DucType") for paleographical description. Briefly, it will enable to editor to view a manuscript image alongside a transcript, and encode paleographical descriptions using a simple template interface. It's still under development, although Kevin Kiernan, PI on the projects, has shown several demonstrations, including one at Kzoo in May.
Look for our forthcoming article in Literary and Linguistic Computing (the proceedings from last year's ACH/ALLC meeting - July or August 2004). We also have a short article coming out in the July DigiCULT Newsletter [http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php] that gives a bit of history and briefly describes DucType and our other editing tools.
You can find out more on our project websites:
Electronic Boethius - http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm ARCHway - http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ARCHway/entrance.htm
Hope this helps,
Dot
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.
Cheers,
Arianna Ciula
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Hi Dorothy,
thank-you for all the information. I was at the ALLC/ACh conference in Sweden and I had ettended your talk of course, which I enjoied a lot.
By the way, what I'm curious about it's exactly what you call "encoding paleographical descriptions using a simple template interface".
Looking forward your publications, Best wishes,
Arianna Ciula On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:52:40 -0400 "Dorothy C. Porter" Dorothy.Porter@uky.edu wrote:
Arianna,
We (Research in Computing for Humanities at the University of Kentucky) are working on DTD and tool (called "DucType") for paleographical description. Briefly, it will enable to editor to view a manuscript image alongside a transcript, and encode paleographical descriptions using a simple template interface. It's still under development, although Kevin Kiernan, PI on the projects, has shown several demonstrations, including one at Kzoo in May.
Look for our forthcoming article in Literary and Linguistic Computing (the proceedings from last year's ACH/ALLC meeting - July or August 2004). We also have a short article coming out in the July DigiCULT Newsletter [http://www.digicult.info/pages/index.php] that gives a bit of history and briefly describes DucType and our other editing tools.
You can find out more on our project websites:
Electronic Boethius - http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBoethius/inlad.htm ARCHway - http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ARCHway/entrance.htm
Hope this helps,
Dot
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.
Cheers,
Arianna Ciula
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