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.

At present, two working groups are active, "Data Entry Specs WG" and "Document Schema WG".

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

​Link to the project mailing list.

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

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.

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)
• ​Beta Code

Additional resources

Some material about Greek Ligatures. Our book recommendations?.

On abbreviations: ​Lexicon abbreviaturarum by Adriano Cappelli

Completed specs

See here.

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.

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.