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151 This example illustrates the primary advantage of encod<strong>in</strong>g the editions <strong>in</strong> XML. If editors wish to differ between uncerta<strong>in</strong> characters and broken characters they can encode them with different tags. They can then transform both tags <strong>in</strong>to under-dots if they still wish to present both <strong>in</strong>stances as such or they can decide to visualize one <strong>in</strong>stance, underl<strong>in</strong>ed and the other under-dotted to dist<strong>in</strong>guish between them (Roued 2009). Thus, EpiDoc allows different scholarly op<strong>in</strong>ions to be encoded <strong>in</strong> the same XML file s<strong>in</strong>ce content markup (EpiDoc XML) and presentation (separate XSLT sheets) are separated. Roued also supported the argument of Roueché (2009) that EpiDoc encod<strong>in</strong>g is not a “substantial conceptual leap” from Leiden encod<strong>in</strong>g. While the first two V<strong>in</strong>dolanda tablet publications were encoded us<strong>in</strong>g EpiDoc, Roued observed that the level of encod<strong>in</strong>g was not very granular and the website was not well set up to exploit the encod<strong>in</strong>g. She also noted that the level of encod<strong>in</strong>g a project chooses typically depends both on the technology chosen and the anticipated future use of the data. For the next series of V<strong>in</strong>dolanda tablets, Roued expla<strong>in</strong>ed that the project decided to pursue an even more granular level of encod<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g words and terms <strong>in</strong> the transcription. This has supported an <strong>in</strong>teractive search functionality and added greater value to the encod<strong>in</strong>g as a knowledge base. To beg<strong>in</strong> with, the project encoded the tablets <strong>in</strong> greater detail regard<strong>in</strong>g Leiden: Encod<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>stances of uncerta<strong>in</strong>ty, added characters and abbreviations enables us to extract these <strong>in</strong>stances from their respective texts and analyze them. We can, for example, count how many characters <strong>in</strong> the text or texts are deemed to be uncerta<strong>in</strong>. Similarly, we can look at the type of characters that are most likely to be supplied. These illustrate the many new possibilities for analyz<strong>in</strong>g the read<strong>in</strong>g of ancient document (Roued 2009). In addition to more extensive encod<strong>in</strong>g of the texts <strong>in</strong> EpiDoc, the eSAD project decided to perform a certa<strong>in</strong> amount of manual “contextual encod<strong>in</strong>g” of words, people, place names, dates, and military terms, or basically of all the items found <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>dexes. For words, the <strong>in</strong>dex conta<strong>in</strong>ed a list of lemmas with references to places <strong>in</strong> the text where correspond<strong>in</strong>g words occurred; encod<strong>in</strong>g these data allowed them to extract <strong>in</strong>formation such as the number of times a lemma occurred <strong>in</strong> the text. Dur<strong>in</strong>g the encod<strong>in</strong>g of the <strong>in</strong>dexes, the project discovered numerous errors that needed to be corrected. All of this encod<strong>in</strong>g has been performed to support new advanced search<strong>in</strong>g features with a new launch of the website as V<strong>in</strong>dolanda Tablets Onl<strong>in</strong>e 2.0 <strong>in</strong> 2010. In particular, they have developed an <strong>in</strong>teractive search feature us<strong>in</strong>g AJAX, 509 LiveSearch, JavaScript, and PHP 510 that gives the user feedback while typ<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> a search term. In the case of V<strong>in</strong>dolanda, it will give users a list of all words, terms, names, and dates that conta<strong>in</strong> their search pattern. The XML document created for each <strong>in</strong>scription text conta<strong>in</strong>s all of its relevant bibliographic <strong>in</strong>formation and textual encod<strong>in</strong>g, and Roued expla<strong>in</strong>ed that this necessitated develop<strong>in</strong>g methods that could extract relevant <strong>in</strong>formation only, depend<strong>in</strong>g upon the need. The project thus decided to build RESTful web services us<strong>in</strong>g the ZEND framework 511 and PHP. The V<strong>in</strong>dolanda web services receive URLs with certa<strong>in</strong> parameters and return answers as XML. This allows other projects to utilize these encoded XML files, and, <strong>in</strong> particular, the knowledge base of Lat<strong>in</strong> words. This web service is be<strong>in</strong>g used <strong>in</strong> their related project that seeks to develop an ISS for readers of ancient documents. The 509 AJAX, short for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” and is a technique “for creat<strong>in</strong>g fast and dynamic web pages” http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_<strong>in</strong>tro.asp 510 PHP stands for “Hypertext Processor” and is a server-side script<strong>in</strong>g language, http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_<strong>in</strong>tro.asp 511 http://framework.zend.com/
152 prototype 512 <strong>in</strong>cludes a word search that “takes the partially <strong>in</strong>terpreted characters of a word and attaches them to the web service URL as a pattern, thus receiv<strong>in</strong>g suggestions for the word us<strong>in</strong>g the V<strong>in</strong>dolanda tablets as a knowledge base” (Roued 2009). The research work by eSAD with the V<strong>in</strong>dolanda tablets demonstrates how the use of standard encod<strong>in</strong>g such as EpiDoc can support new research such as the development of knowledge bases from encoded texts. It also illustrates the potential of provid<strong>in</strong>g access to such knowledge resources for other digital humanities projects through web services. Collaborative Workspaces, Image Analysis, and Read<strong>in</strong>g Support Systems The unique nature of work<strong>in</strong>g with papyri has made papyrology a fairly collaborative discipl<strong>in</strong>e, <strong>in</strong> contrast to some of the other subdiscipl<strong>in</strong>es of classics. As noted earlier, Hanson described the amicitia papyrologorum of the n<strong>in</strong>eteenth and twentieth centuries, and this trend it appears cont<strong>in</strong>ues today. “Individual specialists, particularly <strong>in</strong> the study of cultural artifacts or documentary rema<strong>in</strong>s, work with collections of artifacts, texts, artworks, and architecture that may span several excavation sites,” Harley et al. (2010) expla<strong>in</strong>ed, add<strong>in</strong>g that “as a result, scholars can be highly collaborative” … “<strong>in</strong> how they locate and work with these materials <strong>in</strong> order to extract as much <strong>in</strong>formation and detail as possible.” In their review of archaeology, Harley et al. also observed that some scholars desired web-based workspaces that could be shared when work<strong>in</strong>g on documentary rema<strong>in</strong>s. The authors quoted one scholar at length: It would be nice to be able to have a more convenient way of look<strong>in</strong>g at images all at the same time and manipulat<strong>in</strong>g them. We can now do that with text pretty easily, but let’s say a few of us are work<strong>in</strong>g on an edition of a papyrus and we want to discuss some particular feature <strong>in</strong> a high-resolution image of it. The only th<strong>in</strong>g we can really do very easily at that po<strong>in</strong>t is to all look at the same webpage or to pass the image around by email and give verbal cues to navigate to a particular po<strong>in</strong>t (Harley et al. 2010, 111). Some <strong>in</strong>itial work toward provid<strong>in</strong>g such an environment has been conducted by the VRE-SDM project 513 and this work largely cont<strong>in</strong>ues under the eSAD project. Tarte et al. (2009) have observed that greater accessibility to legible images and a collaborative work<strong>in</strong>g environment are both important components of any potential VRE: For Classical historians, add<strong>in</strong>g to the legibility challenge, access to the document is often limited. Collaborative work on the documents is one factor that facilitates their decipher<strong>in</strong>g, transcription and <strong>in</strong>terpretation. The Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts pilot software (VRE-SDM) … was developed to promote non-colocated work between documentary scholars, by provid<strong>in</strong>g them with a web-based <strong>in</strong>terface allow<strong>in</strong>g them to visualize and annotate documents <strong>in</strong> a digitized form, share annotations, exchange op<strong>in</strong>ions and access external knowledge bases (Tarte et al. 2009). The development of this prototype and the <strong>in</strong>-depth exam<strong>in</strong>ation of the work<strong>in</strong>g methodologies of scholars that work with such damaged texts through a video-based ethnographic study have been described <strong>in</strong> Bowman et al. (2010) and de la Flor et al. (2010a). 514 De la Flor et al. reported that the 512 This prototype is discussed <strong>in</strong> the next section of this paper. 513 http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/VRE-SDM.html 514 One publication regard<strong>in</strong>g this work (de la Flor et al. 2010b) only recently came to the attention of the author and could not be more fully <strong>in</strong>tegrated <strong>in</strong> this report.
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