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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). | 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). | ||
Revision as of 11:33, 28 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
Summary[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