1. Details

1. Dettagli

Seminar: Paolo Monella, Out of the Tower of Babel: interoperability and pre-modern writing systems (original Italian title: Fuori dalla Torre di Babele: interoperabilità e sistemi grafici pre-moderni), delivered in English on December 4, 2019 at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Ca' Foscari University, Italy, within the VeDPH seminar series Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities 2019/20 (news on Ca' Foscari's website).

Both the talk video and audio recording and the slides are in English.

Seminario: Paolo Monella, Fuori dalla Torre di Babele: interoperabilità e sistemi grafici pre-moderni, 4 dicembre 2019 presso il Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Università Ca' Foscari University di Venezia, all'interno del ciclo di seminari Seminars in Digital and Public Humanities 2019/20.

Sia il seminario (vedi registrazione audio e video) sia le slide sono in inlgese.

2. Audio and video recording

• Audio recording
• YouTube video on the VeDPH channel (some parts are missing)

3. Abstract

For digital philology based on pre-modern handwritten witnesses, interoperability and reuse of textual data and software is an open issue. This talk illustrates the ongoing work to use structural linguistics and semiotics as theoretical basis for the creation of an ontology to formalize concepts such as glyph, allograph, grapheme (alphabetic grapheme, brevigraph, abbreviation mark, punctuation), capitalization, abbreviation, word, lemma. Since TEI aims to be theory-agnostic, it does not provide a shared model for those entities. As a consequence, each project produces transcriptional data following its own editorial conventions and, therefore, based on its own data model. The talk argues that shared reflection on modelling fosters interoperability.

3. Abstract

For digital philology based on pre-modern handwritten witnesses, interoperability and reuse of textual data and software is an open issue. This talk illustrates the ongoing work for the creation of a LOD ontology to formalize concepts such as glyph, allograph, grapheme (alphabetic grapheme, brevigraph, abbreviation mark, punctuation, logograph, ideogram), alphabeme, abbreviation, word, lemma.

Since TEI aims to be theory-agnostic, it does not provide a shared model for those entities. As a consequence, each project produces transcriptional data following its own editorial conventions and, therefore, based on its own data model.

The goal of the proposed LOD ontology is to facilitate both the exchange of textual data deriving from (hyper)diplomatic transcriptions and the development and reuse of modular open source software modules in the field.

4. Slides

4. Slide

• Version projected at the talk (corresponding to the YouTube video above):
  • ODP
  • PDF (long / short version)
• Updated version (no longer corresponding to the YouTube video above):
  • ODP
  • PDF (long / short version)

4. Suggested readings

4. Suggerimenti bibliografici

• L. T. Hjelmslev, Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, University of Wisconsin Press 1961.

  

• G. Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction, Stanford University Press 1990.

  

• T. Orlandi, Informatica testuale, Laterza 2010.