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:* Differences to a print edition | :* Differences to a print edition | ||
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:# [http://www.sd-editions.com/caxtons/index.html Caxton's Canterbury Tales] | :# [http://www.sd-editions.com/caxtons/index.html Caxton's Canterbury Tales] (CD-ROM) | ||
:# [http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ The William Blake Archive] | :# [http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ The William Blake Archive] | ||
:# [http://www.fcr-online.com/ Fontes Civitatis Ratisponensis Online] | :# [http://www.fcr-online.com/ Fontes Civitatis Ratisponensis Online] |
Revision as of 10:45, 9 September 2008
Event: Summer School "Digitale Editionen – Methodische und technische Grundfertigkeiten" of the "Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien" at the University of Cologne
Köln, 01. -05. September 2008
Participants MPDL: Ulla, Kristina
Introduction[edit]
- HTML
- CSS (separation from structure and presentation)
- Character encoding
- Digitalization
- Recommended data formats are
- Tiff (for the original files)
- For compression: jpeg (not recommended for texts because it creates gray dots around the letters which can be seen in a high zooming), png, gif
- Transcription
- OCR
- Recommended OCR software: Fine Reader from Abby (can not read all Gothic print types)
- Google is currently working on an freeware
State of the art[edit]
- Digital editions
- Differences to a print edition
- Some nice examples of digital editions
- Software Tools
- For supporting the display of the material
- Versioning Machine (VM)
- Anastasia
- For supporting the submission of the material
- EPPT (Edition Production and Presentation)
- XML Editors
Basics[edit]
- XML
- Is a meta language which describes the rules of markup languages
- Some sub-languages
- XPath for navigation within XML documents
- Schema as description for a data model (e.g. via xml schema or a dtd)
- XSL:eXtensible style language
- XSL-T: transforming xml documents in html
- XSL-FO: