Hi Martin,

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Martin Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I would have suggested the Image Markup Tool, but it can only do
> rectangular areas (at the moment -- any Pascal graphics geniuses out
> there looking for work?).
>
I'm interested to hear you say this, because my understanding of the
functionality of the IMT is that it's an annotation tool, rather than
a markup tool. I think what this document needs (as others have said)
is 1) a method for encoding and organizing the text(s) in such a way
that makes logical sense, and perhaps also 2) a method for describing
where the text(s) lie on the page, how they are oriented, how they
relate to one another etc. The IMT might work for 2 (although as you
say it, and TEI P5 <facsimile> etc., only support rectangular areas,
which wouldn't nearly do this document justice), but not really for 1.
Or am I misrepresenting IMT? I would actually be *really excited* if
the IMT were to become a markup tool, in addition to providing a
method for annotations.

> Perhaps I should adopt this as the ultimate challenge for the IMT, such
> that the IMT can't be deemed satisfactory until it can handle this
> document (or, better, a multi-page document containing a series of such
> images).
>
Yes - this would be fabulous!

Dot

> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
> Paul F. Schaffner wrote:
> > Some may find the text below entertaining as a markup challenge. The
> > entire text is contained on a single page; our job is to
> > capture the textual portions (in order to allow search and
> > retrieval) without grossly misrepresenting the relationships
> > between the parts, using only the limited resources of our tag set
> > (paragraphs, lists, tables, quotes, heads, trailers, divs, notes,
> > hi, gaps, figures, and not much more).
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/docs/samples/31966.pdf
> >
> > I think I feel a headache coming on.
> >
> > pfs
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> Martin Holmes
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