Il giorno ven, 19-11-2004 alle 16:19 -0500, Susan Schreibman ha scritto:
> Summary of Manuscript SIG Meeting
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> Baltimore, 23 October 2004
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> Outcomes: SIG members will undertake come up with solutions to: a) to time
> based encoding; and b) will revise Chapter 18, Transcription of Primary
> Sources.
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> Summary of the Task Force on Manuscript Description

Not much to say here, good job.

> General Discussion on Issues Regarding Manuscript Transcription

> Matthew suggested that two of the primary tasks would be the revision of two
> chapters:  Chapter 18, Transcription of Primary Sources,

Yes!

>  and Chapter 19,
> Critical Apparatus. Patricia Bart suggested that she would like to see
> included in the Critical Apparatus tagset an element which does not require
> adding in additional readings, but allows a user to see patterns in
> readings. The group asked her to put together a proposal with some examples.

If I remember well, the outcome of the first SIG meeting was that the
present Critical Apparatus tagset is not really suited to ms
transcription (which makes sense to me): are we going back to it?

> Dot also suggested that the TEI might want to explore the visualization tool
> for finding quires that has been developed at U of Kentucky. Dot explained
> that one could include a manuscript and an image in which areas of the
> transcription are keyed to the same place in the manuscript itself. This
> tool is part of their Eclipse suite, which will be released under open
> source license, probably sometime next year. David added that he has not
> seen much interest in the TEI community in linking images to text and he
> welcomes this initiative.

I am very interested in text-image linking, hope to hear more about
this. I know that the <figure> element is under review, let's keep an
eye over it. BTW, what happened to the "digital facsimile" project by
Lou Burnard? I think a "light" approach would be needed anyway (Eclipse
is quite resource hungry).

> To wrap up the discussion, Susan Schreibman suggested that the members of
> the SIG concentrate on two issues over the coming year which seemed most
> pressing as a result of the discussion: i.e. time based encoding, and
> revision of the transcription chapter. Patrick seconded this idea adding
> that he felt that this chapter could be rewritten in a more readable format.

It also needs to be expanded so that it can handle all ms transcription
cases, for instance:

* there should be a simple way to clearly distinguish graphical words
from lexical words;

* the <w> element should include elements like <abbr> and <expan>, etc.;

* complex substitutions, variations etc.;

* still hoping for an <emend> element (ok, that would be more useful for
critical editions than transcriptions :)

> Susan also mentioned that it seemed clear from the discussion that members
> of the SIG would find it useful to have a page which links to documentation
> generated by various projects. She said that this could be done under the
> TEI Training (now TEI Education) SIG. Tone Merete Bruvik added that the
> Ibsen  project will be translating their encoding practice into English and
> would make it available to the TEI community.

Good.

Ciao

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