Dear Museum Computer Group List,
We are costing a tool to support a Manuscript transcription and mark-up project and would be interested to hear of any open source or otherwise re-usable/customisable tools that would allow users to select and apply mark-up tags to transcribed text. The tags might be from the TEI schema plus some extensions or something else (again suggestions welcome). The project is inter-institutional so we are almost certainly looking at a web app. A sample of the user experience for the application is below (the meaty bit is the second half).
Surely someone has done this kind of thing before.
User Experience (Post-doctoral project researcher)
I open the system log in page and use my login name and login password. Having logged in I can chose to Search existing records, to Search and Edit existing records or to Create new records. There are no restrictions on what I can see, edit or create. I choose to create a new record. I select whether I am creating a Volume, Folio, Entry or Mark/Annotation. I select to create an Entry. I select the Folio that the entry appears on from a drop down built from the Folios created in the system. If the Folio I want is not there I cannot create the Entry. The Folio I want is there so I select it and a link is established between the Entry I am creating and the Folio it appears on. I enter an Author by selecting one from the Author Authority drop down. I can create and use new terms in this Authority. I enter the date of the Entry as a range. I link an image of the Entry by selecting it from a list of the images in the system repository. I record the position of the Entry on the folio by recording x and y co-ordinates from the top left (or something more sophisticated using the image of the Folio). I enter the text of the Entry. I see the words "sold to Master Thomas" were written in pencil so I highlight them and select the Pencil tag from the Tag Authority. Initially I see the tags as added i.e. <pencil> sold to Master Thomas</pencil> but I can switch view to see any visual effect associated with that tag e.g. sold to Master Thomas. I then highlight Master Thomas as a named individual and select the Person Tag. The system offers me suggestions from the Person Authority but none are correct so I Add New Person. The Tag now links that text to that Person Authority. In Mark Up mode this looks like <pencil> sold to <person:1234>Master Thomas</person></pencil> . In View mode this looks like sold to Master Thomas.
I save my work. I search for other Entries that have pencil text by searching on the Tag <pencil>, both Entries and Mark/annotations are returned. I narrow my search to just Entries.
Many thanks for any suggestions or leads.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
Jonathan Whitson Cloud
Collection Documentation Technical Manager,
The British Museum,
Great Russel Street,
London WC1B 3DG
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