A theoretical & practical seminar on digital edition.

Project: Petrus Hispanus

Digital edition of texts and manuscripts
(Petrus Hispanus workshop 1)

Jeffrey Witt (Loyola University Maryland)

FLUP, Sala de reuniões 2

4th July to 8th July 2016

The main aims of the first workshop of the project Critical Edition and Study of the Works Attributed do Petrus Hispanus - 1 are

• the discussion of the principles of electronic text editing, assuring his re-use, compatibility and interoperability
• the training and practical work for the electronic publication of medieval texts (text edition and connection with manuscripts's digital images)
• to define what IT resources adopt for text encoding of the works of Petrus Hispanus, preparing them for different uses: print publication, online open access, databases, indexing and lemmatisation, text search, etc.

Participants

• project team members
• other participants: if you want to participate, write an email to the PI of the project ( [email protected] ) stating the reason of your interest — a short number of places are available.

Program

Monday, July 4th

11:30-12:30 Open Conference
The Power and Potential of Data Re-use. Introduction and Overview on Digital Edition

Slidedeck

• 01-introduction

Articles and Links

• An overview of the LombardPress SCTA system

• On converting TEI to camera ready print proofs

• On sharing data with holding libaries

12:30 Lunch

14h00-15:00 Introduction to Core Concepts and Technologies

Topics

• Transcription Data
• Corpus Data
• Image Data

Slidedeck

• 02-core-technologies

15:00 Break

15:30-16:00 Agenda for the Week

16:00-17:00 Questions and Open Discussion

Tuesday, July 5th

10:00-11:00 Introduction to XML and TEI Part I

Please bring laptops to all sessions
If possible, please download and install a trial version of OxygenXML beforehand.

Topics

• Basic Rules of XML

• The TEI Standard

• Installing and Using Oxygen

Slidedeck

• 03-introduction-to-tei-part1

Articles and Links

• TEI Home Page

• Introduction to XML for Text

• A Gentle Introduction to XML http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SG.html

• List of TEI Materials and Training Documents

11:00 Break

11:30 -12:30 Hands On Session Editing with TEI

Bring your own texts or help encode the 1972 De Rijk's edition of Summulae Logicales or other Petrus Hispanus's works.

12:30 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Conceptualizing Your Text Within a Corpus

Topics

• A data model to support intertextual connections and image linking

• The Project Data File

Slidedeck: 04-scta-data-model

Articles:

• DTS Modeling Proposal

15:00 Break

15:30-16:30 Hands On Session: Creating A Project Data File and Organizing Your Files

17:00-17:30 Questions & discussion

Wednesday, July 6th

10:00-11:00  Introduction to TEI Part II: Critical Editing with TEI

Topics

• Encoding the Apparatus Criticus

• Enoding the Apparatus Fontium

• Encoding Diplomatic or Documentary Editions

Slidedeck

• 05-introduction-to-tei-part2

Articles and Links

• The TEI critical apparatus module

• http://digitallatin.org/

• EpiDoc Guidelines

• Lbp Schema

• TEI by example: critical editing

11:00 Break

11:30-12:30 Hands On Session Encoding Practice and Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Editorial Workflows and File Management

Topics:

• The importance of Version Control and GIT Source Control

  • A soft introduction to Git

• Using Drop Box with Git

  • pros and cons

Slidedeck

• 06-workflows

Articles and Links

• Using a thoughtful workflow to support collaboration on text transcriptions

15:00 Break

15:30-16:30 Hands On Session Encoding work and pushing transcriptions to the cloud using Git and/or DropBox

• The importance of Version Control
• The pros and cons of using DropBox or GoogleDrive

16:30 - 17:00 Questions and Open Discussion

Thursday, July 7th

Discussion and individual work day. On appointment Jeffrey Witt can work with the participants on their transcriptions, software problems, or participate in a general discussion about long term planning.

Friday, July 8th

10:00-11:00 Image Text Linking via IIIF

Topics

• Understanding the IIIF Image API
• Understanding the IIIF Presentation API
  • The IIIF Manifest and IIIF Canvas

Slidedeck

• What is IIIF?
• 07-image-text-linking-via-iiif

Articles and Links

• IIIF Website
• Mirador Project Site

11:00 Break

11:30-12:30 Hands on Session Continue editorial work and embedding of IIIF data into XML editions

12:30 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Hands On Session and (hopefully) demonstrations of online and print editions from the week's work.

15:00 Break

15:30-17:00 Questions and Planning for the Future Work and Sustainability of our Work

17:00 Last word & Conclusion. 

Jeffrey Witt is Medieval Philosophy Assistant Professor at Loyola University Maryland, and acts as international adviser of the project Petrus Hispanus. With growing interests in digital humanities and the process of moving philosophical texts from their original manuscript form to media more accessible to the community of scholars, is currently developing a web publishing framework for medieval Sentences commentaries.
Website: http://jeffreycwitt.com/

Organisation:
Instituto de Filosofia & Project: Critical Edition and Study of the Works Attributed do Petrus Hispanus - 1 : http://goo.gl/sJfvwB

Funding:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Ref.: PTDC/MHC-FIL/0216/2014).