Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities The Versioning Machine v-machine.org From Metadata to Linked Data July 2011.

Dr Susan SchreibmanLong Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities

The Versioning Machinev-machine.org

From Metadata to Linked Data

July 2011



<l n="1"> <app> <rdg wit="#a660

#h72">"Faith"</rdg> <rdg wit="#h201 #l1894

#ll227">Faith</rdg> <rdg wit="#p1891

#cp32">FAITH</rdg> </app> is a fine invention</l>




Display Requirements

1. multiple witnesses of a text displayed in one browser window;

2. display images of the manuscripts appropriate to each diplomatic version in a pop-up box that could be

– easily compared to the diplomatic version of the text;

– read in its own right as an image; – compared with other manuscript images

belonging to the same witness series 3. display the fluidity of the writing process4. accommodate headers typical to the TEI & a

robust typology of notes;5. line matching across witness set


Design Specifications

1. allow the software to run in a browser without plug-ins or pre-processors;

2. to support client-side transformations;

3. allow previously-encoded XML;4. allow alternative rendering of

elements;5. provide users with a tool that can

be used without additional programming



Methods of Encoding Multiple Versions of Text

w/in the TEI

• double-end-point attached• location-referenced method• parallel segmentation


Parallel Segmentation

<l n="1"> I labour in a barren place,</l> <l n="2"> <app> <rdg wit="a1">Afraid, aware, <del type="hand">little</del> <add rend="hand">blundering</add>, lonely thing:</rdg> <rdg wit="a2 a3 pub"> Alone, self-conscious, frightened, blundering;</rdg> </app> </l>


<l n="4"> <app> <rdg wit="#a1 #a2 #a4 #pub">And time grows afraid of the triumph of time.

<note type="gloss" anchored="true"><p>The fifth of six allegorical triumphs in Petrarch's Trionfi is <emph rend="italic">the Triumph of Time</emph>. Petrarch's Triumphs, often depicted as Father Time in his chariot surrounded by symbolic devices such as the scythe and hourglass, were frequently represented by Baroque and Renaissance artists.</p> </note></rdg></app</l>


Features of the VM typology of notes:

• glosses [g]; biographical notes [b]; critical and/or contextual notes [c]; and notes about the physical artifiact [p].

• Also a fifth note type: can be undefined or user defined; represented by a "n" icon (for note).



fluidity of the writing process

• allows editors to distinguish within a particular witness bibliographic features as holograph and/or typescript emendations and erasures;

• feature controlled by a combination of XSLT and CSS;

• Utilise XSLT to transform the elements, leaving display protocols to the CSS.

• allows for editorial control of display via the CSS (presumption that most editors would find it easier to manipulate CSS)


Element matching in previous versions

• line matching across a witness set highlights parallel-encoded units across versions;

• Matches on <l>, <p><seg>, <s>, <c>, <mod>, <closer>, <opener>, and <epigraph>;

• For display purposes the entire line across witnesses is highlighted



Changes to this version

• - Support for additional TEI elements, including <pb>, <choice>, <orig>, and <reg>

• - New popup note display based entirely on CSS (no JavaScript)

• - Improved visual layout and new color scheme and font

• - Faster performance on larger documents thanks to coding improvements

• - Dropped support for older (pre-7.0) versions of Internet Explorer


Questions?

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