Dear James, and All,
I think the discussion on early photographic facsimiles is fascinating,
but I am also delighted to hear James mention the TEI p5 advances in the
linking of text and image. I am working here at Hofstra on a Melville
Electronic Library, and we are hoping to get funding that will allow us
to create a model (using TEIp5 and SVG) for linking images of Melville
MS to transcriptions to annotations that provide revision sequences and
narratives.
yrs,
John B.
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John Bryant, English Department, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549
>>> James Cummings <[log in to unmask]> 11/22/07 5:34 AM >>>
Fordham Finn wrote:
>
> Interesting question - or questions - since are we talking facsimile
or
> fasimile edition?
I've no answer on the discussion of early facsimile editions, but it
reminded me of something else that might be of interest to others.
For those interested in electronic markup of textual editions, the Text
Encoding Initiative recently released a major version update to its
Guidelines (TEI P5 version 1.0). The reason I mention this here and now
is
because of the addition of a <facsimile> element to represent "some
written
source in the form of a set of images rather than as transcribed or
encoded
text". So one can now do textual editions, text+image editions, or
solely
image facsimiles all in the TEI. There is also the capability to link
any
textual element to a particular image or zone on an image, which may be
especially of interest to those who do image annotation or like to
highlight parts of an image when you hover a mouse over a bit of text.
For
those interested you can read more about it in the substantially revised
chapter on the Representation of Primary Sources at
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/PH.html
Apologies to those not interested in electronic facsimiles.
Best,
-James
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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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