Difference between revisions of "Trip Report: Summer School Digitale Editionen 2008"

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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

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

Recommended OCR software: Fine Reader from Abby (can not read all Gothic print types)
Google is currently working on an freeware

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 Participants MPDL: Ulla, Kristina
+== Basic Knowledge ==
+* [http://de.selfhtml.org/ HTML]
+* CSS (separation from structure and presentation)
+* XML as the mother of all markup languages
+* 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 ==
+* Digital editions
+:* Differences to a print edition
+:* Some nice examples of digital editions
+:# [http://www.sd-editions.com/caxtons/index.html Caxton's Canterbury Tales]
+:# [http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ The William Blake Archive]
+:# [http://www.fcr-online.com/ Fontes Civitatis Ratisponensis Online]
+* Software Tools
+:* For supporting the display of the material
+:# [http://v-machine.org/ Versioning Machine] (VM)
+:# Anastasia
+:* For supporting the submission of the material
+:# [http://www.eppt.org/eppt-trial/EPPT-TrialProjects.htm EPPT] (Edition Production and Presentation)
+* XML Editors
+:# [http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Oxygen]
+:# [http://www.altova.com/de/ XML Spy]