MPIWG-MPDL Content Project

This is the wiki for the XML Workflow Service subproject within the cooperative project between the MPIWG and MPDL​. The other subproject is the ​Software Development Project.

Main achievements of this subproject are

• The Data Entry Specifications, i.e. the rules for transcribing European and Chinese texts
• The Schema for the XML versions of the transcriptions
• The Workflow for transforming raw transcriptions into valid XML texts
• Nearly 80 ​XML texts

​Link to the project mailing list. For meeting protocols, check the ProtocolIndex. The protocol of the meeting with the MPDL (Nov 2008) can be found ​here.

The Data Entry Specs can be found ​here (some old versions are here).

An overview of the results so far.

A list of policy documents.

Pictures of the data entry can be found here.

Bugfiling and feature requesting for ECHO can be done ​here.

​Arboreal's source code and wiki

Workflows and integration with eSciDoc here.

Missing texts and pictures in Archimedes

The workflow for updating ECHO xml-documents (especially: aligning the xml to new images)

Information about attended Workshops

Overview pages (under construction)

1. Unicode
2. Workflow
3. DE_Specs
4. Schema

1. Data Entry Specs WG

Existing data entry specs

Some preliminary notes on character issues are to be found on the page CharacterIssues. Some old DE specs may be found under LegacySpecs. Raw data entry versions of Archimedes texts can be accessed through the ​WebCVS interface.

Malcolm's high level requirements from the large team meeting on 2008-09-11.

Text workflow

Our standards for digital images from external vendors can be found here. DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation: ​German, ​English.

Some Sample texts from the ECHO collection. Problems of and requests for ECHO see here.

Provisional list of books to be transcribed: Batch 1 and 2 from this list have been sent to China. First evaluation of the work sample.

The next batch of books can be found ​here (click on "Digitalisierung"). An overview of the books possibly included in the next batch can be found here

Some letters from ​Formax have been copied to the wiki for further discussion

Overview of the five Work Orders to Formax in 2008.

Collection of Regular Expressions for replacing abbreviations.

References on encoding

• ​A tutorial on character code issues (by J. Korpela)
• ​Unicode Home Page
  • ​Code Charts By Script (Unicode 5.1)
  • ​Unicode Standard Annex #15: UNICODE NORMALIZATION FORMS
• ​Fonts & Encodings (O'Reilly book by Y. Haralambous, English ed.)
• ​Documentation for Unicode::Normalize Perl module (from ​CPAN)
• ​ISO 8879 entities (from W3C)
• ​The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• ​Beta Code
• ​ISO 15924 script codes

Additional resources

Some material about Greek Ligatures. Our book recommendations?.

On abbreviations: ​Lexicon abbreviaturarum by Adriano Cappelli

Completed specs

See here. There is also a list which shows what images were used in the examples.

Results from China

See ​here.

2. Document Schema WG

Malcolm's Schema high level requirements from the large team meeting on 2008-09-18.

Two documents that will serve as starting points for the Document Schema can be found here​ and here​.

Discussion of the Metadata.

References

• Relax NG
  • ​Relax NG (O'Reilly book by E. van der Vlist)
    • ​The GFDL release of this book, along with updates (html)
  • ​trang (open source schema converter written in Java)
  • ​RELAX NG Compact Syntax Tutorial
  • a zipped tarball​ with schemas for some well-known document types
  • ​XDF : XML Documentation Format (literate programming with Relax NG)
• ​Dublin Core (Metadata)
• ​ISO 639-2 (codes for natural languages)
• ​ISO 8601 (date and time formats; brief reference from W3C)

Tools

• ​XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit
• ​libxml2 contains xmllint, a command line tool for validating
• ​MXTerminator A tool for sentence boundary detection

Documentation about trac

• WikiFormatting -- detailed description of available Wiki formatting commands
• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• ​The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• ​Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.