Florentina Armaselu – DHLab, Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), Luxembourg [email protected]1 www.cvce.eu From a Small-Scale Digital Edition to a TEI Publication Framework in Modern European History Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Conference and Members’ Meeting. Connect, Animate, Innovate. 28 to 31 Octobre 2015. Université Lumière Lyon 2
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Florentina Armaselu – DHLab, Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), Luxembourg [email protected]
1www.cvce.eu
From a Small-Scale Digital Edition to a TEI Publication Framework in Modern
European History
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Conference and Members’ Meeting. Connect, Animate, Innovate. 28 to 31 Octobre 2015. Université Lumière Lyon 2
2. Transviewer, towards a TEI publication framework
3. Discussion
4. References
Summary
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Part I The WEU-DIPLO pilot project
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1. Goal: XML-TEI encoding, corpus analysis and Web publication of institutional documents of the W.E.U. (Western European Union):• Topics: armament production, standardization, control in the period from 1954 to 1982;• Source: Archives nationales de Luxembourg, W.E.U collection.
2. Initial format: • digitized versions (JPG) of typewritten materials (one file per page).
XML-TEI Encoding: WEU-DIPLO – transcription features (Pierazzo, 2011)
Part I. WEU-DIPLO pilot 11
Part II Transviewer, towards a TEI
publication framework
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• Treaties; official declarations and meeting reports; letters; notes; press articles; images, video and audio archives related to European integration history
Context: The CVCE’s ePublications
Part II. Transviewer 13
1. Transviewer concept:• XML-TEI transformation/visualisation on the fly, in the browser• flexible framework for the publication of XML-TEI documents in European
integration history;
2. Technologies : • XML, HTML, XSLT, CSS and JavaScript
Implementation (adaptation and in-house development):• side-by-side view digital facsimile and transcription (EVT model)
• third-party libraries:o BookReader: tool designed to provide online access to scanned books o Saxon-CE: support for XSLT 2.0 transformation in the browser
o in-house development (configuration, frames and buttons layout/actions, transcription rendering, third-party libraries calls)
Transviewer experiments– digital facsimile/transcription side-by-side view. Werner – handwritten notes
Part II. Transviewer 17
Transviewer experiments (simulation) – video/audio and transcription synchronisation. Werner - interviews
Part II. Transviewer 18
Transviewer features – panels layouts
Part II. Transviewer 19
Transviewer features – transcription format
Part II. Transviewer 20
Transviewer features – panels interlinking
Part II. Transviewer 21
Part III Discussion
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“By teaching an edition how to swim, I mean endowing an edition not only with a store of factual knowledge concerning the work presented, but also with the capability of dealing gracefully with the mutability of the electronic medium, by exploiting the possibilities for reader-controlled changes to the edition’s presentation and by adapting successfully to rapid changes in the hardware and software environment.” (Sperberg-McQueen, 2009)
1. Transviewer prototype questions:• flexible enough to support different types of documents in
European integration history and different user requirements; • modular architecture to allow gradual development and
customisation according to the needs of the projects;• balance manual interventions/automatic processing (XSLT, NER);• XML transformation on the fly (no need for intermediary
formats/steps, changes to the XML already part of the publication).
Discussion
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3. Issues: • BookReader – use of an older version of jQuery library;• non-uniform support of Saxon-CE for XSLT 2.0 transformation in the
browsers;• need for batch conversion to XML-TEI (potential adaptation of
OxGarage for batch processing).4. Ongoing/future work for further development:
• evaluation (technology – technical experts; usability tests – experts in European integration studies);
• development of new modules (multi-panels, audio/video transcription, etc.) and tests with more project samples;
• integration into the existing CVCE’s Website architecture:o Back End;o Front End.
Discussion
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Thank you!
Discussion
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Scaling in a publication framework would imply not only teaching your editions “how to swim” but also how to swim
together.
• Book Reader: https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
• Pierazzo, Elena. (2011). A rationale of digital documentary editions. In LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 26, No. 4, December 2011, pp. 463-477.
• TEIBoilerplate : http://dcl.ils.indiana.edu/teibp/ • TEI (Text Encoding Initiative): http://www.tei-c.org • Versioning Machine: http://v-machine.org/ • Saxon-CE: http://www.saxonica.com/ce/user-doc/1.1/index.html• Sperberg-McQueen, C.M. 2009. “How to teach your edition how to swim”. In LLC. The Journal of Digital
Scholarship in the Humanities. Volume 24, No. 1, April 2009. Oxford Journals.• XTF (eXtensible Text Framework): http://xtf.cdlib.org/about/