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Event: Summer School [http://www.zfms.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/SummerSchool.php "Digitale Editionen – Methodische und technische Grundfertigkeiten"] of the "Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien" at the University of Cologne | '''Event''': Summer School [http://www.zfms.uni-koeln.de/veranstaltungen/SummerSchool.php "Digitale Editionen – Methodische und technische Grundfertigkeiten"] of the "Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien" at the University of Cologne | ||
Köln, 01. -05. September 2008 | Köln, 01.-05. September 2008 | ||
Participants MPDL: Ulla, Kristina | '''Participants MPDL''': Ulla, Kristina | ||
== Summery == | |||
The summer school was a good mixture between theory and praxis. It gave a good overview of how to create a digital edition (beginning with the print medium and ending with an online version). | |||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
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:* TEI has more than 400 elements which are grouped in several thematic modules (see [http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index-toc.html TEI Guidelines]) | :* TEI has more than 400 elements which are grouped in several thematic modules (see [http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index-toc.html TEI Guidelines]) | ||
:* TEI allows the creation of schemes | :* TEI allows the creation of schemes | ||
[[Category:Trip report|Summer School Digitale Editionen]] | [[Category:Trip report|Summer School Digitale Editionen]] | ||
[[Category:TEI]] | [[Category:TEI]] |
Revision as of 09:28, 10 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
Summery[edit]
The summer school was a good mixture between theory and praxis. It gave a good overview of how to create a digital edition (beginning with the print medium and ending with an online version).
Introduction[edit]
- HTML
- CSS (separation of structure from 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
- Well formed XML: follows the rules of XML
- Valid XML: follows the rules of a schema
- Some sub-languages
- XPath for navigation within XML documents
- XSL:eXtensible Style Language
- XSL-T(Transformation): transforming xml documents in html
- XSL-FO(Formatting Objects): transforming xml documents in print versions like pdf
- TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
- TEI has more than 400 elements which are grouped in several thematic modules (see TEI Guidelines)
- TEI allows the creation of schemes