 |
 |
Hi Neven, As far as I know the tool you describe does not exist yet. You could get there with a combination of tools and some coding. For a) a good starting point could be http://www.homermultitext.org/hmt-doc/guides/ict.html or https://github.com/PerseusDL/imgspect and using the cite/cts architecture to link transcription and coordinates b) is not complicated once the reference link is in place For c) e.g. you could use d3 for this using the coordinates from the text/image link to draw a box when you hover over the text-passage in question with your mouse (you might want to experiment which colour and opacity works best for your needs) For d) the link pointed out in a) should help you again in combination with your programming language of choice (python or ruby jumps to mind quickly, but depending on the format of your transcription files also Xquery) The essential part is really the image citation and then you can work from there. HMT have come up with an excellent system for this. That said, once you get into collection management and there is more than only one manuscript, it becomes even more important to be very very precise with the citation system in place. Cheers, Thomas PS: I understand that you wanted to have an out-of-the-box tool, but I would be (happily) surprised if this already exists. Quoting Neven Jovanović <[log in to unmask]>: > Dear List, > > a student and I are looking for a tool which could: > > a) record a link from a line of a MS image (as a set of coordinates) to a > line of transcription > > b) display as a web page an image map of MS page and its transcription > side by side > > c) highlight, in parallel, a line in the image and its transcription (e. > g. on hover over image or transcription) > > d) search transcriptions for a string and display all lines where the > string appears (with links to respective images) > > In spite of the DH popularity explosion, we are having a hard time finding > a tool that does not only a) and b), but also c) and d). > > We've looked at Image Markup Tool, TILT, Scripto, From the page, > Zooniverse / Scribe, monasterium.net, Transcribe Bentham, T-PEN -- more or > less everything mentioned in a discussion here: > <http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/collaborative-software-for-transcribing-digital-images-of-handwritten-documents>. > Nothing seems to fit our needs, however. (I've also found TextGrid, but at > the moment it is hard for me to say whether it does what we need.) > > It appears that recently a lot of efforts were directed at crowdsourcing > transcriptions, but not that much at displaying them. > > Any help is appreciated. > > Best, > > Neven > > > > > Neven Jovanovic > Department of Classical Philology > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > University of Zagreb > Hrvatska / Croatia