TEI@RCH
[Originally presented at "TEI Day Kyoto", workshop affiliated with the TEI Council Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, May 2006]
The Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities uses TEI P5 in all its new and developing text encoding projects. Our poster will highlight current and developing projects in RCH, and the various ways that we are taking advantage of the flexibility offered by the TEI P5.
Through the Neolatin Colloquia Project, directed by Ross Scaife, Professor of Classics, graduate students and faculty associated with the UK Institute for Latin Studies are creating a variety of materials for the renewed study and enjoyment of neo-Latin colloquia scholastica, texts that date primarily from the 16th and 17th centuries.Modules used to encode the colloquia include those for Performance Texts (drama), Names and Dates (namesdates), and Common Core (core) – especially for the tagging of bibliographic citations and references.
The Latin Lexicography Project (LLP), also directed by Scaife, is building a web-accessible Latin dictionary, initially populated by digitizing and harmonizing the markup of several important Latin lexica with coverage up to about 1850 CE, then growing ever more comprehensive through the assimilation of additional lexica. For the LLC, we are using the dictionaries module to progressively mark up a number of classical Latin and neolatin dictionaries originally published in print.
Still in the planning stages, the Collectio Dacheriana Project directed by Abigail Firey, History Department, will make extensive use of the Critical Apparatus tags (in the textcrit module) in order to record the many variants in this collection of Carolingian canon law.
Under the direction of Ben Withers, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art and Art History Department, the Old English Hexateuch Project will bring together a group of Anglo-Saxon scholars with a variety of specialties to build an edition of the extensively illustrated tenth-century manuscript, British Library Claudius B iv. The edition will make extensive use of the Manuscript Description module (msdescription), and will also propose extensions to the modules for Text Criticism (textcrit) and Transcription of Primary Sources (transcr).
Venetus A Project, in cooperation with Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, is part of the Homer Multitext Project. The Venetus A project seeks to create a complete image-based edition of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Venetus A, a tenth-century Byzantine manuscript containing the earliest copy of Homer's Iliad plus several layers of annotations. Venetus A will take advantage of the Manuscript Description module (msdescription), and in addition will illustrate TEI interaction with the Classical Text Services (CTS) protocol, and image-text mapping between TEI and METS.