Je reviens donc comme promis sur les métries et ce à quelques jours de la non-conférence du Thatcamp autour des digital humanities. Il n’y aura pas d’ateliers autour des métries. Je pense qu’il s’agit néanmoins d’un enjeu important tant il y a de nouveaux aspects à évaluer notamment autour du blog.
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Le socle du métier
Je suis tenté de dire que nous devons être des manipulateurs de données, à tous les niveaux. Ce n’est pas tout de savoir cataloguer (créer les données) ou encoder en EAD ou en TEI, il faut aussi savoir exploiter ces données, ou comprendre comment elles sont exploitables (ou non).
ODD (One Document Does it all) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ODD stands for "One Document Does it all". Part of the Text Encoding Initiative, it is an XML-based format for writing human-readable descriptions of XML files. ODD allows its users to customize the P5 version of the TEI XML formats by writing XML schemas in a literate programming fashion.
What is the TEI Demonstrator?
The purpose of the DARIAH TEI Demonstrator (TD) is to demonstrate the practical benefits of using TEI for the representation of digital resources of all kinds, but primarily of original source collections within the arts and humanities. The Demonstrator aims to make it easy for humanities researchers to share TEI-encoded texts with others, and to compare their encoding practice with that of others in the TEI community. It also aims to show the "TEI Advantage", by showing how TEI can be used for textual materials in many languages, both for richly encoded complex materials and for minimally encoded basic texts.
Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing | Digital Humanities Observatory
This symposium, to be held in conjunction with a meeting of the TEI Council, will explore such questions through a series of presentations outlining the current state of the art in institutional publishing operations such as those of universities in the UK, France, US, and Australia, from the point of view of private sector publishers (among which the NLM DTDs are increasingly adopted), and from international initiatives where interoperability has been identified as a major factor (e.g., PEER, which includes European research institutions, repositories, and STM publishers). The objective is to identify current difficulties in making publication systems interoperable and identify priority actions for the TEI to intervene in this arena.
ENRICH Project and TEI P5 | ENRICH
Article on TEI P5 development and use in frame of ENRICH project by James Cummings and Lou Burnard, Oxford University
There are several quite distinct traditions for the description of primary sources, in particular manuscripts. Unlike books, such sources are unique objects, often of great cultural value, which are typically catalogued locally by the many different institutions holding them. This contributes further to the diversity of approaches taken. Great institutions are able to produce richly detailed, highly scholarly descriptions, while smaller or less well-resourced institutions cannot hope to do so. But with the widespread increase in the practice of digitization of such primary sources, there is increasing pressure to make their cataloguing uniform, so as to facilitate cross-site searching, and the sharing of information about resources held at many different institutions.
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XML Entity Definitions for Characters
Abstract
This document defines several sets of names, so that to each name is assigned a Unicode character or sequence of characters. Each of these sets is expressed as a file of XML entity declarations.
CrossRef Metadata Services: structured, cross-publisher metadata for your indexing and linking services.
CrossRef Metadata Services, or CMS, offers an easy-to-use suite of tools for authorized partners to collect metadata on a cross-publisher basis to streamline their own crawling, indexing, and linking services. CMS includes a variety of metadata dissemination tools and provides standard terms and conditions for partners using the cross-publisher metadata available through CrossRef. Just as the core CrossRef linking service removes the need for bilateral linking agreements among publishers, the CMS program removes the need for bilateral agreements covering use of metadata between publishers and partner service providers.
launching epub-labs! – Reading 2.0
I am pleased to announce the launch of epub-labs!
EPUB-labs is intended to be an informal, open development
space, with associated mailing list, for ebook and media
developers to begin exploring the best ways of achieving
support for enhanced transmedia and internationalization
experiences for ebooks. epub-labs is intended to foster
discussion of best practices for html5, css v2/v3, and
other technologies for enhanced ebooks, in both web-based
and more traditional package delivery formats.
Digital communities and scholarly collaboration (P. Spence, CCH, King’s College) | Blogo-Numericus
La discussion porte sur trois aspects :
1. La question se pose du niveau de personnalisation pertinent pour la TEI. Jusqu’à présent par exemple, la CEI est plutôt dans une impasse, sans doute par volonté de trop grande généricité.
2. L’aspect très intéressant, c’est le développement d’ontologies qui, contrairement aux index classiques, sont indépendants (mais nourris par) des documents. Ces ontologies promettent d’être des outils de recherche beaucoup plus puissants et c’est vrai que les projets sont encore balbutiants dans le domaine. On en est au point où on sait faire des éditions électroniques en TEI. La construction d’ontologies sur la base de listes d’autorités est sans doute le prochain défi.
3. Une partie de la discussion porte sur l’appropriation des méthodes et des outils par les chercheurs. De manière étonnante, le CCH ne semble pas travailler sur une base régulière avec Claire Warwick du Department of Information Studies à l’ University College London et …