Text & Graphics
(Dorothy Carr Porter, John Walsh)
The Text and Graphics Special Interest Group serves as a forum for the discussion, development, testing, and documentation of various strategies and best practices for implementing the digital facsimile structures available in TEI P5, especially as relates to graphically rich texts, and for developing methods to extend the TEI when existing structures are not suitable. The two sessions here sponsored by the SIG cover many different aspects of the issue of text and graphics as they relate to TEI.
Session I is a more advanced session, with two technical presentations describing different non-<facsimile> approaches to linking text and image. The first is a report on experiments carried out for the First Century of the First State University collection at Documenting the American South to automate linking between manuscript images and TEI transcriptions, using SVG. The second is a report on the Archimedes Palimpsest project, which is using the Canonical Text Services protocol to link transcriptions to image. The third presentation is Session II is a presentation and report on the Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) and its recent conversion to TEI P5.
Session II includes presentations on two projects currently taking advantage of the TEI P5 <facsimile> family of tags, the publication of the papers of Edvard Munch by the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, and "Look here, upon this picture": the Shakespeare Quartos Archive and Image-based Variorum Editions in TEI, edited by Doug Reside of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. These two presentations will discuss both how the projects are using the TEI, and how this encoding helps move forward the projects’ scholarly aims. The third presentation in Session I is a progress report on a collaboration between the University of Kentucky UNC-Chapel Hill to build an open-source software system for the incorporation of images into many different aspects of the digital editing process.