Text-image coupling for editing literary sources

2012

Attention! This is a special internet edition of the conference paper " Digitization of Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection. Methods of linking textual and graphic data " by Jost Gippert (paper read on the conference "

2007

2018 IEEE 5th International Congress on Information Science and Technology (CiSt), 2018

This paper presents our digital publishing process and its editing system developed for a specific use case - the scholarly digital edition of a set of Roman inscribed lead tags - but suited for analyzing a broad variety of text-bearing objects. This pipeline covers the spectrum of the activities from data acquisition of the visual aspects to complex analysis of the writings and text of incised inscriptions. It employs a two-dimensional medium, Reflection Transformation Images (RTI), to support visual analysis. The visual and textual data it generates are open access, ready to be used for machine learning processes.

Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, eds. Brent Nelson, Melissa Terras, ACMRS, 2011

With the now widespread availability of digitized data, researchers in the humanities are learning to go about their work in new ways-and requiring new research tools to do so.

2006

We examine some research issues in pattern recognition and image processing that have been spurred by the needs of digital libraries. Broader-and not only linguistic-context must be introduced in character recognition on low-contrast, tightly-set documents because the conversion of documents to coded (searchable) form is lagging far behind conversion to image formats. At the same time, the prevalence of imaged documents over coded documents gives rise to interesting research problems in interactive annotation of document images. At the level of circulation, reformatting document images to accommodate diverse user needs remains a challenge.

Computers and the Humanities, 1997

This paper concerns the Charrette Project, a multimedia electronic archive of a medieval manuscript tradition. In this paper, we argue that the computer's strengths in manipulating complex and varied resources should be an important organizing principle in the conception and construction of electronic text projects. Specifically, we describe the elements of the Charrette archive, its architecture, and its potential for scholarly research and pedagogical applications.

Users need more sophisticated tools to retrieve and manipulate the growing number of image-based documents available in databases. In this paper, we describe interaction and visualization techniques for handling image-based hypermedia. First, we propose a digital annotation scheme that provides an indirect mean for indexing complex documents that can not be processed automatically by usual techniques. We present then two graphical workspaces for accessing data by interactive manipulation in a more intuitive way. The first system provides focus+context views for navigating through large information spaces. The second one is dedicated to the management and the retrieval of documents that have already been seen.

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2009

Cultural heritage documents are often subject to digitization processes resulting in image material, even for textual contents. It is therefore common, in collections of valuable documents, to have descriptive information generated by the institutions, along with digitized images, transcriptions created by scholars, translations and even miscellaneous annotations. To offer a faceted access to the collection it is necessary to explore these diverse materials, integrate them according to a model that accounts for both metadata and the content and provide a comprehensive retrieval environment. In this work we have applied the MetaMedia multimedia database framework to a collection of ancient documents, processed the documents in their descriptive, textual, and image content and produced a browsing and searching system. The main challenges are the integrated management of metadata and content, the indexing of the image content, and the design of the browsing and searching interface where various views on the data are kept together.

2007

Abstract. This paper describes our approach to the design of Scribblr; an internet-based tool to support mark-up of images in the course of creative work. The mark-up, which may be textual or freeform sketches, forms a conversation between remote collaborators which is archived and can be revisited at a later date. This paper considers the ways in which two key spaces are transformed and extended through the use of the Scribblr tool.

2010

More and more large repositories of texts which must be automatically processed represent their content through the use of descriptive markup languages. This method has been diffused by the availability of widely adopted standards like SGML and, later, XML, which made possible the definition of specific formats for many kinds of text, from literary texts (TEI) to web pages (XHTML). The markup approach has, however, several noteworthy shortcomings. First, we can encode easily only texts with a strict hierarchical structure while text has often concurrent hierarchies. Then, extra-textual information, like metadata or annotations, can be tied only to the same structure of the text and must be expressed as strings of the markup language. Third, queries and programs for the retrieval and processing of text must be expressed in terms of languages like XQuery [4], in which every document is represented as a tree of nodes; for this reason, in documents where parallel, overlapping structures exists, the complexity of XQuery programs becomes significantly higher.