Digital Humanities Solution Pack/Critical Edition

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Paddy McCann

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Jun 17, 2015, 7:03:41 AM6/17/15
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Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone could please provide some information on the status of the Digital Humanities Solution Pack, demonstrated in 2012?

Is the Digital Humanities Solution Pack synonymous with the Critical Edition (https://github.com/discoverygarden/islandora_critical_edition)? If not, what is the relationship between them? Is the Critical Edition being maintained?

Thanks,

Paddy

Melissa Anez

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Jun 22, 2015, 10:54:36 AM6/22/15
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Hi Paddy,

There's been quite a bit of growth in Islandora support for DH since 2012, above and beyond the DHSP. Alan Stanley (from discoverygarden) gave a quick overview of the state of things at Islandora Camp in Madrid last month that might be of interest [1] - and I'll also send up the Alan Signal to see if he can comment here.

Regards,

- Melissa


Alan Stanley

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Jun 22, 2015, 12:31:56 PM6/22/15
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Any number of the Islandora/discoverygarden solution packs may be of value to the DH community depending on what they'd like to examine, and how they'd like to extract value from their digital assets.

The solution pack you're speaking of, The Islandora Critical Edition Solution pack was designed to allow a single book to be analyzed in depth.  The still-evolving CWRC editor was used to clean up the automatically generated OCR, and mark it up.  The markup could be either TEI, RDF, or both.

This solution pack formed the base for a newer far more comprehensive solution pack which is nearing completion now.  The newer solution includes collation, and the ability to incorporate a number of separate assets into a single critical edition with its own critical apparatus.  The hugely expanded version is not yet ready for release.  The older Critical Edition pack should still be useful, but it hasn't been under active development for almost two years.

It would be worth installing at this point to see what (if anything) has to be done to bring it in line with current Islandora.

Paddy McCann

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Jun 23, 2015, 11:13:39 AM6/23/15
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Thanks Alan

It's the ability to mark up using TEI that is of particular interest. I'll take a look at the older version and look forward to the new solution pack being released.

Regards,

Paddy

Mark Leggott

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Jun 23, 2015, 11:43:45 AM6/23/15
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I would also highlight the yet to be officially release but in Git option of the UCLA Manuscript SP (supports TEI and EAD). In this case the TEI would be created in Oxygen or something similar.

Mark
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Mihaela Ilovan

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Jun 25, 2015, 5:51:56 PM6/25/15
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Hi Paddy, 

Also worth mentioning, if you're considering marking up digital-born text in addition to digitized materials or if you don't require the side-by-side view in the critical edition:

The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) is developing in conjunction with dgi an Islandora version of the CWRC-Writer xml/rdf editor that can be used to mark-up uploaded xml documents (as opposed to scanned from printed sources). A functional version already exists but we are still planing some updates to the way documents are handled and displayed. 

Regards,
MIhaela
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