In message <767AE227EE7B4DE7AD801A7C146B543E@asuslaptop>, Jon Pratty
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>Tangentially, as always: I'd suggest any approach to this challenge could
>include a text alternative to digitised/scanned pamphlets. The 24 Hour
>Museum's work with the Parliamentary Archive brought home to me the need for
>transcribed searchable/tagged web versions of things like petitions, and
>pamphlets will be just as interesting to work with in this way.
>
>Of course, once the originals have been transcribed, all sorts of fun could
>be had with re-interpreting the meanings enshrined within the source texts,
>a cool thing to do with history or media studies students, for example.
Absolutely: sounds like a perfect TEI application:
http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
Richard
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