Digital encoding of text

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Digital encoding of text

• Toma Erjavec

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Scholarly digital editions of Slovenian
literature http//nl.ijs.si/e-zrc/

• Content provider Institute of Slovenian
  Literature Scientific research centre of the
  Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
• Technology providerDepartment of Knowledge
  TechnologiesJoef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana

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Freising Manuscripts (FM)

• Three religious texts
• FM I a confession form
• FM II a homily on penitence and remission
• FM III a confession form
• Provenance Upper Carinthia or Freising(Austria,
  Germany)
• Place of use Carinthian estates of the Freising
  diocese
• Written after 27 May, 972 not after 1023

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The history of the Freising Manuscripts

• Discovered by B. J. Docen in 1806 in the Munich
  State Library
• Many printed editions since then
• First diplomatic transcription 1827 by P. Köppen
  A. H. Vostokov, Sanktpeterburg
• ? Critical edition by Slovenian Academy of
  Sciences 1992, 1993, 2004

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The printed edition 2004 our source,
containing

• Diplomatic transcription with apparatus,
  comparing 9 older DT
• Critical transcription with apparatus,comparing
  13 older CT
• Phonetic transcription in IPA, with apparatus
• Translations into Latin and 3 modern languages
• Dictionary of all words in the CT, with PT, the 4
  translations Old Church Slavonic, and examples
  (concordances)
• Bibliography, with 600 items
• Introductions

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The goal of e-edition to gather the 200-years
history of FM editions

• Annotated text of all major transcriptions so
  farthe history of understanding
• Alignment of all 16 transcriptions and
  translationsunderstanding through comparison
• Sound recording added to phonetic
  transcriptionunderstanding through experiencing
• Addition of translations Polish, Italian
  understanding for non-Slovenian speakers
• Integration of materialsunderstanding for all

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Production of the e-edition

• Electronic original a local editor format or
  re-keyed Word files
• Conversion dedicated Perl and XSLT filters
• Target format the Text Encoding Initiative
  Guidelines P4
• View format XSLT transform into HTML
• Rapid prototyping and a cyclical process of
  refinement

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Challenging issues

• Complex characters, e.g. (ZRCola font
  http//zrcola.zrc-sazu.si/)
• Adding speech into the e-edition(manual
  segmentation, errors in the originals, inserting
  phrase sentence boundaries into parallel views)
• Dictionary conversion(idiosyncratic format,
  complex structure, difficult cross-references)

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ExamplesThe TEI encoded phonetic transcription
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BS Dictionary
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BS Bibliography
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BS basic parallel view
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Further work in finishing the BS eEdition

• TEI header (Slovene English, also HTML view)
• Better treatment of PUA characters(documented in
  header, fallback)
• Resolving outstanding content issues
• Better overall structure and linking

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Further workgeneral goals

• Incorporating language technologies into the
  eEditions (concordancing, lemmatisation,
  part-of-speech tagging)
• Adaptable Web interface for viewing (select what
  and how to see corrections, emendations, notes,
  facsimile)
• Accessing and connecting the e-library as a whole
  (cataloguing, searching)