MPIWG-MPDL Content Project

This is the wiki for the XML Workflow Service subproject within the ​cooperative project between the MPIWG and MPDL. At present, two working groups are active, "Data Entry Specs WG" and "Document Schema WG". For protocols, check the ProtocolIndex.

The other subproject is the ​Software Development Project

Data Entry Specs WG

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.

Sample texts to examine

Some Sample texts from the ECHO collection.

• ​Benedetti (1585, annotated)
• ​Euclid (1558, Latin)
• ​Euclid (1703, Latin/Greek?)
• ​QQTS (1627, Chinese; with ​xml)
• ​Hutton (1795, English encyclopedia; with ​xml)

References on encoding

• ​A tutorial on character code issues (by J. Korpela)
• ​Unicode Home Page
  • ​Code Charts By Script (Unicode 5.1)
• ​Fonts & Encodings (O'Reilly book by Y. Haralambous, English ed.)
• ​ISO 8879 entities (from W3C)
• ​The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

Additional resources

Some material about Greek Ligatures. Our book recommendations?.

Document Schema WG

References

• ​Relax NG (O'Reilly book by E. van der Vlist)

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.