Trip Report: Summer School Digitale Editionen 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

• HTML
• CSS (separation from structure and presentation)
• Character encoding
• Digitalization

• Recommended data formats are

1. Tiff (for the original files)
2. 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

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

State of the art

• Digital editions

• Differences to a print edition
• Some nice examples of digital editions

1. Caxton's Canterbury Tales (CD-ROM)
2. The William Blake Archive
3. Fontes Civitatis Ratisponensis Online

• Software Tools

• For supporting the display of the material

1. Versioning Machine (VM)
2. Anastasia

• For supporting the submission of the material

1. EPPT (Edition Production and Presentation)

• XML Editors

1. Oxygen
2. XML Spy

Basics

• XML

• Is a meta language which describes the rules of markup languages
• Some sub-languages

1. XPath for navigation within XML documents
2. Schema as description for a data model (e.g. via xml schema or a dtd)
3. XSL:eXtensible style language
   • XSL-T: transforming xml documents in html
   • XSL-FO:

Max Planck Digital Library

Cascading Style Sheets

Optical Character Recognition

Virtual Machine

Extensible Markup Language

Expression Language Used to Navigate and to Find Structures in XML Documents

Extensible Stylesheet Language