Il 25/12/2013 10:44, Mikel L. Forcada ha scritto:
> Dear Dr. Roselli, dear TEI-L members:
>
> Congratulations on such a nice and useful way to present transcribed manuscript content. Unfortunately, there is not much I can say about the transcription itself, as I know very little about old texts and even less Old English. I just stare in awe!
Thank you for the kind words :)
> I am helping other colleagues in my university to prepare digital editions of manuscripts and I am very interested in the technical details of how this has been done. What presentation engine has been used? Has your group at Torino developed it? Is the engine free/open-source and/or are there plans to release it?
The engine is open source and there's already a version available on
Sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/evt-project/): it's a bit
outdated, we are now revising the code used for the Digital Vercelli
Book beta to publish it for everybody to try.
> We are currently adapting Susan Schreibmann's Versioning Machine for our work, as we have multiple manuscripts encoded in a single XML document using critical apparatus (<app>), but we are interested in looking at other presentation engines, particularly if the license allows us to use it!
At the moment EVT doesn't support critical editions, only diplomatic
editions, but we plan to add support for the former at some point in
time, I can't tell when right now though. First we want to add support
for the embedded transcription and a search functionality.
Since this is open source software feel free to have a look and
experiment with it, you could consider implementing support for critical
editions yourself. Write me in private to know more about the software
architecture if you're interested.
> Thanks a lot and best wishes for 2014!
Happy new year to all the TEI community!
R
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Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it
Dipartimento di Studi rosselli at ling.unipi.it
Umanistici Then spoke the thunder DA
Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE)
Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre,
mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)
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