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
Basic Knowledge[edit]
- 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[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