May the Text Rise up to Meet You: New Ways of Reading Old Manuscripts
Eugene Lyman is the Associate Dean for Development at the University of Rhode Island Foundation, URI Graduate School of Oceanography.
Authored for DHQ; migrated from original DHQauthor format
This poster demonstrates the suite of programs I created for the Society of Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET) to facilitate the display of its TEI-compliant documentary and critical editions of medieval texts.
Society of Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET) programs created to facilitate the display of its TEI-compliant documentary and critical editions of medieval texts.
Interface design was the uppermost concern when I set out to create a suite of programs for the Society of Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET) to facilitate the display of its TEI-compliant documentary and critical editions of medieval texts. From its inception, my project has been shaped by the tremendous potential of electronic textuality to redefine our experience of what it means to possess and read a text. This poster demonstrates these programs and surveys the principles that have given rise to their creation.
The SEENET interface project has been carried out as an iterative process moving
between (1) identifying the broad parameters of questions that readers might be
tempted to ask of a text and (2) shaping an electronic
knows
selectively
In addition to demonstrating programs designed to display documentary and critical editions of Piers Plowman (which serves as the locus for all examples shown), the poster describes programs written to permit electronic markup of facsimile images of the medieval manuscripts as well as programs that assist editors in the TEI-compliant markup of documentary and critical texts.
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