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Wonderful, thanks Dot, Hugh. We'll be sure to follow up on both of these. The grant money is also good to know about! :-) Best Leif On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Hugh Cayless <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hey Leif, > This sounds pretty cool! The state of the art, as far as I know in TEI, is > to link lines in the text to rectangular areas in an image that encompass > lines of written text. TEI may not provide any straightforward way to do > all of the things you want to encode: > > Would it be sufficient simply to provide > > annotations in the form of line number, point location, line, or > > polygon and their rotation relative to the horizontal? > > In particular, TEI doesn't really deal with coordinate systems, so the idea > of transforms (like rotation, e.g.) just isn't there. There was some > discussion about encoding polygons, but I'm not sure it made it as far as a > feature request. I've been fooling around with SVG+TEI to do some of these > things, but unless you're actually linking to an SVG, I'm not sure that's > ideal. > I'd encourage you to post to the Text & Graphics SIG > (http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Graphics/). If TEI can't do what you > want, we should figure out how to make it work and get it into the standard. > There's a little grant money available for SIGs this fall which could be > spent on things like developing a proposal to encode RTI annotation metadata > in TEI. Just a thought. > Hugh > On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Dot Porter wrote: > > Hi Leif, > > You might take a look at TILE (http://tileproject.org), which is > developing a fairly simple, schema-agnostic software for linking text > with image of text (both semi-automated and manual), and image > annotation. It's modular and plug-in-able, so potentially you could > take it and modify as needed without having to build your own > annotator from scratch :-) I gave a keynote on the TILE project at > the 2009 DHSI at UVic, we've developed an alpha version since then but > this presentation outlines our concerns, which would seem to be > similar to your concerns, and a brief history of other tools: > http://dhsi.org/blog/archives/50 > > HTH, > Dot > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Leif Isaksen <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Dear all > > As part of the RTISAD Project > > (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/acrg/acrg_research_DEDEFI.html), > > which is applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging technologies to > > ancient resources, we would like to introduce the ability to annotate > > the RTI dataset. This will be structured so that it is possible to > > associate such annotations with the precise viewer settings (light > > angle, filters applied, etc.) at the time when the annotaiton was > > made. In this way it will be possible to bookmark these settings and > > enable subsequent viewers to identify the process of interpretation. > > For example, how a letter is seen when lit from a certain angle. The > > output will be TEI-compliant XML with embedded links to the RTI > > datasets, which in turn will be imported into other workflows/VREs. > > As a result it would be very helpful to know how researchers work with > > and reference images of text. Would it be sufficient simply to provide > > annotations in the form of line number, point location, line, or > > polygon and their rotation relative to the horizontal? Is there > > additional functionality which would increase its utility? We are keen > > not to replicate existing work on image annotation and to provide an > > annotation approach that is consistent with TEI. > > Best wishes > > Leif > > > > > -- > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) > Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian > Email: [log in to unmask] > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > >