Comments on: Electronic Editions on a Shoestring http://thatcampcanberra.org/2011/10/04/electronic-editions-on-a-shoestring/ The Humanities And Technology unconference, 7-9 October, University of Canberra Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:11:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: thien http://thatcampcanberra.org/2011/10/04/electronic-editions-on-a-shoestring/comment-page-1/#comment-86 thien Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:25:05 +0000 http://thatcampcanberra.org/?p=699#comment-86 Here's a summary of the session and the tools mentioned: Text Encoding (Roger Osborne) Scholarly editions Open Annotation Collaboration openannotation.org (Mellon funded – UQ) Examples: Samuel Beckett digital archive – 30 year plan to digitise all of his work. Walt Whitman Archive TokenX – text visualisation tool. – (Willa Cather Archive) MVD (multiversiondocs.blogspot.com/) online tool being developed by Desmond Schmidt – online production of comparisons of multiple versions of texts. Built on Joomla. Problem of how to render text from images of typescripts or handwritten manuscripts. Finereader express – OCR Juxta – desktop software for comparing two versions of files CollateX – new version of Collate and Anastasia for document The Virtual Manuscript Room - Vmr.bham.ac.uk – Tesseract – free OCR software – requires bw images aligned properly Remote Writer – tool for writing encoded text Here’s a summary of the session and the tools mentioned:

Text Encoding (Roger Osborne)

Scholarly editions
Open Annotation Collaboration openannotation.org (Mellon funded – UQ)
Examples:
Samuel Beckett digital archive – 30 year plan to digitise all of his work.
Walt Whitman Archive

TokenX – text visualisation tool. – (Willa Cather Archive)
MVD (multiversiondocs.blogspot.com/) online tool being developed by Desmond Schmidt – online production of comparisons of multiple versions of texts. Built on Joomla.
Problem of how to render text from images of typescripts or handwritten manuscripts.
Finereader express – OCR
Juxta – desktop software for comparing two versions of files
CollateX – new version of Collate and Anastasia for document
The Virtual Manuscript Room – Vmr.bham.ac.uk –
Tesseract – free OCR software – requires bw images aligned properly
Remote Writer – tool for writing encoded text

]]> By: David Large http://thatcampcanberra.org/2011/10/04/electronic-editions-on-a-shoestring/comment-page-1/#comment-79 David Large Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:48:26 +0000 http://thatcampcanberra.org/?p=699#comment-79 Thanks for proposing this session - I'd be very interested in working through those same questions, perhaps with an added emphasis on preparing and presenting digital editions of annotated texts, or simply sets of annotations to a printed text when copyrights prohibit republication of the source text. Either way I'm looking forward to finding out more. Thanks for proposing this session – I’d be very interested in working through those same questions, perhaps with an added emphasis on preparing and presenting digital editions of annotated texts, or simply sets of annotations to a printed text when copyrights prohibit republication of the source text. Either way I’m looking forward to finding out more.

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