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- Archaeology of Reading
- Roman de la Rose Digital Library
- Christine de Pizan Digital Scriptorium
- Kaiserchronik
##From the AoR proposal:
Extend data model from RRDL and DLMM, improve JHU SC prototype to create and manipulate annotations, leverage DC software for preservation
- Ability to add data to AoR site/archive
- Search tools - search through printed text and annotations in original language and English
- Updated to use the latest version of Apache Lucene
- For those annotations that reference a passage from another text, present the relevant passage (or full text) to the user
- A viewer for presenting AoR data - present users with digital surrogates of each book, translations, transcriptions, etc
- The viewer will allow users to compare multiple texts simultaneously and independently
- Consolidate rare book and manuscript services into a single service for Shared Canvas.
- Roman de la Rose digital library
- Chrisine de Pizan digital library
- Kaiserchronik historical manuscripts
- Guillaume de Machaut manuscripts from BNF???
- Must have good documentation :)
- Improve JHU SC viewer
- Development of SC image viewing capabilities
- Conceptualization and implementation of annotation capabilities and functionalities envisioned for the study of early modern annotated books
- Tools for managing the archive including adding new data
- Update FSI server to latest version
- Ensure support for latest versions of IIIF image and presentation APIs
###September 1, 2014: start
###January 26, 2015: workshop in London
- Completed 7 volumes, full transcription and translation
###By February 28, 2015 end of first 6 months
- Update and refactor existing RRDL and DLMM code base to accommodate a diverse range of annotated book content and new use case functionalities
- Archive, workflow, website, API components
- Current data model must be extended to handle specific use cases presented by AoR project and other projects planning to use Shared Canvas and IIIF, while maintaining current functionality
###After February 28, 2015
- Collaborate with SC community to decide how to handle common annotation types such as transcriptions and translations in order to facilitate links between different books or different annotations
##Other concerns
- What is happening with the Systematic Assertion Model (SAM)? Sounds like it could be useful for annotation creation and editing.
- What will be the involvement between JHU and the other grant recipients, University College London (UCL)? Are they the ones responsible for the Humanities deliverables (12 manuscripts as Shared Canvas)
Website functionality
- Browse manuscripts by category: Repository, common name, currently location, date, origin, type, number of illustrations, number of folios in the manuscript, and the presence of transcriptions
- Search through RRDL archive by keyword or category
- Advanced searches by composing keywords restricted by category using boolean operators
- Display various information as spreadsheet (available manuscripts, narrative sections, etc)
- View openings of a manuscript
- View high resolution images of a single page of a manuscript
- Choose between either flash based or JavaScript based image viewer
- Change the text on the website between English and French
- Display the following project information:
- Terms and Conditions
- Partners
- Project History
- Donation
- Blog
- Contact Us
- Browse manuscripts by category: Repository, common name, current location, date, origin, type, number of illustrations, number of folios, and the presence of transcriptions
- Search through Pizan archive by keyword
- Advanced search by composing keywords restricted by category
- Display a list of works as spreadsheet
- View openings of a manuscript
- View high resolution images of a single page of a manuscript
- Choose between either flash based or JavaScript based image viewer
The broad aims of the project are: to produce a full edition of the German Kaiserchronik, the first vernacular verse chronicle of the European Middle Ages; to make its content and transmission available to a range of disciplines (literary studies, history, linguistic history); to use the text as a way of re-emphasizing the role of history in medieval literature and thus to open up new ways of thinking about the history of that literature in general; and to create impact for the text and subject area with publics both in the UK and in German-speaking Europe.
- To produce a full edition of recensions A, B, C of the Kaiserchronik, on the basis of the complete transmission (50 manuscripts, 11 full), in three volumes: Vol 1. Introduction and analysis (c. 300 pp.). Vol 2. Synoptic parallel edition with apparatus and English translation (c. 1200 pp.). Vol 3. Commentary, glossary and index (c. 300 pp.). Akademie Verlag, Berlin, has agreed to publish the text with all sections, bar the medieval original, in English to maximize the interdisciplinary audience.
- To produce an inexpensive student edition of recension A, with introduction, translation, a shorter commentary, and enhanced glossary, which will allow the text to be taught for the first time in a range of university courses. (Publisher: Akademie, with the same conditions as in 1.)
- To complete the digitization of the full manuscript transmission (c. three quarters of the total 5226 pages), and produce codicological metadata on all manuscripts and transcriptions of the 11 full manuscripts (with tagging of proper nouns). To make all of this available, open access, on the website of the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, thus ensuring expert supervision, prestige, sustainability and the widest interational exposure; and also to link these results to the major German Handschriftencensus research tool.
- Completion of 2 PhD theses relating to the overall project, one on linguistic history or stylistics, the other on historiography in the late Middle Ages.
- To edit a special issue of the journal Digital Philology (Johns Hopkins University Press), which will set the Kaiserchronik alongside major projects in German and other philologies (e.g. Parzival/Bern, Roman de la Rose/Hopkins, Chrétien/Princeton, and Christine de Pizan/Berlin).
- To organize and host an international, interdisciplinary Kaiserchronik conference, drawn from a wide disciplinary base, and to edit a subsequent book (c. 300 pp.), which will appear in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum (Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart).
- To give invited talks and conference papers in the US/UK and Germany. Specifically to organize panels at 3 international conferences with established interdisciplinary credentials: the International Medieval Congress (Leeds), the International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo), and the Medieval Chronicle Society Conference (European mainland).
- To carry out a range of impact initiatives in the UK, with particular emphasis on schools, public outreach and interaction with the media.
- As part of this, to organize a public event in the UK around leading post-war German film director and intellectual, Alexander Kluge, who has an active and long-standing interest in the Middle Ages.
- To carry out a range of impact initiatives in Germany, with an emphasis on the media, a television programme with Alexander Kluge, and (directly after the funding period, to coincide with the publication of the two editions), exhibitions in Regensburg and the Austrian National Library, Vienna. NB No funding is sought from the AHRC for German / Austrian impact.
The project deliverables are listed as some of the 'Objectives' on the main form, are described in more detail under 'Dissemination' in the Case for Support, and are highlighted in bold on the timetable GANTT chart (see 1b). 7 forms part of our impact strategy. (NB Since not all Objectives are deliverables, both lists do not tally exactly.) In summary, these deliverables are:
- Full edition of recensions A, B, C of the Kaiserchronik in three volumes. (Publisher: Akademie Verlag, Berlin.)
- Student Edition of the Kaiserchronik, recension A, with introduction, translation, shorter commentary, and enhanced glossary (Publisher: Akademie Verlag, Berlin)
- Digitization of complete manuscript transmission (50 mss., 11 full), codicological metadata, and transcription of full manuscripts (with tagging of proper nouns). Host: Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
- 2 PhD theses.
- Special issue of the journal Digital Philology (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore)
- An international Kaiserchronik conference, with subsequent book publication in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum (Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart).
- Event with German film director and public intellectual Alexander Kluge, to be held in either London or Cambridg
a. Content selection: The major electronic resource - which will be housed at the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts at Johns Hopkins University - will capture the complete transmission of the Kaiserchronik and make available transcriptions of all 11 full manuscripts: in this sense, there is no selection. However, selection is required in the choice of three main manuscripts. The criteria for selection are (a) quality of text; (b) date; (c) completeness of the ms. For an authoritative discussion, see Kurt Gärtner, 'Die Kaiserchronik und ihre Bearbeitungen', FS Nellmann (1995). We follow Gärtner's recommendations, but have selected a different manuscript for recension B (on the criteria just outlined); P, selected by Gärtner for his short sample because it is the oldest manuscript, is incomplete. b. Please outline and justify the data / file formats that you propose to use: Of the deliverables listed in 1c, that which requires most data/file information is (3) digitization. We are aware of, have consulted, and will follow the series of Guides to Good Practice developed by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) (www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides). Specifically: German libraries and archives will deliver digitized images in TIFF. These institutions have much experience in the field, and standards and expectations will be finalized formally by telephone and in writing before digitization begins. Images will be captured - according to the newly updated best practice of the DFG
- at real size, at 600dpi in 24-bit colour, and saved without compression in TIFF baseline 6.0. Sheridan Libraries will convert the images into JPEG. Transcriptions and metadata (which will use MARC and Dublin Core, standard formats for description and discovery) will be delivered to the Sheridan Libraries in TEI P5 compliant XML. c. Documenting the resource: The major documentation of the resource's outputs falls under deliverables 1-3 (as listed in 1c): full edition, student edition, website as part of the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts. These are discussed further under 4a-c. To facilitate, document, and order these resources and all other aspects of the project as it develops over five years, we will use an internal project reference website (via an external Apple Server, hosted at MML in Cambridge and networked to the web). All significant steps of each aspect of the project as well as the rolling GANTT charts from monthly business meetings will be stored there and made available by password to members of the team. The project will thus be incrementally archived and accessible at all times.
Digital photos of all 49 manuscripts and fragments, codicological metadata on each, and tagged, searchable transcriptions of the 11 full manuscripts will appear on a completely open access basis in the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts. The dynamic client-side Javascript application written through the Google Web Toolkit loads metadata specifically requested by the user juxtaposed with an interactive page turning utility, enabling the display of metadata about a particular annotation immediately beside the appropriate page. The actual image display provides a smooth viewing experience for digitized rare books, enabling users to zoom into, and pan over, any digitized page within the collection.