DEMMR - March 2018 University of Pennsylvania Workshop

A Digital Editing Workshop with University of Pennsylvania MS Roll 1563

Author: Dominique DeLuca

3/30 HW – Text Markup

Potential Markups

1) Damage to parchment with minor loss of text. Indicating placement of damage may add to our understanding of the physical history of the roll, particularly patterns of interaction between reader and text in the handling of the scroll. <damage>

2) Decorated initial with drawing of a face. This is an interesting decorative element that is both connected to  the text of the prayer, and part is of the margin. <figure> <additions>

3) Brief description of contents of this section of text. Pulling out key themes would help people navigate quickly through the text, and also help to connect this scroll to related texts in other sources. <summary>

4) The insertion of a single line of Latin into a section in English. There is a change of ink color near the end of one line that continues into the following line and ends in the center. Color changes like this that do not neatly line up with the start and end of a line occur infrequently in this scroll. <hi>

5) Abbreviations vs. expanded text. Noting which kinds of abbreviations are used could be useful to people interested in the way the words of the prayer are communicated in text, and could add to our knowledge of the early provenance of the scroll. <abbr>

Burnard and Gailey Readings

The assigned readings by Lou Burnard and Amanda Gailey were my first introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative. From the first article I learned about the impetus for establishing the TEI and the vision of one of its founders of its role in the development of humanities scholarship, and in the second I read one scholar’s account of the practical application of the TEI in her humanities projects. Because I have virtually no experience reading about software and encoding, I was happy to find that I was able to follow the  history and jargon of the TEI, and also understand the ideals and goals of the TEI’s role in the ongoing development of accessibility and communication between scholars and materials within the larger community of educators and students in the humanities.

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