1. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities The Versioning Machine v-machine.org From Metadata to Linked Data July 2011

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3. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities "Faith" Faith FAITH is a fine invention

4. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities

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6. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Display Requirements  multiple witnesses of a text displayed in one browser window;  display images of the manuscripts appropriate to each diplomatic version in a pop-up box that could be –easily compared to the diplomatic version of the text; –read in its own right as an image; –compared with other manuscript images belonging to the same witness series  display the fluidity of the writing process  accommodate headers typical to the TEI & a robust typology of notes;  line matching across witness set

7. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Design Specifications 1.allow the software to run in a browser without plug-ins or pre-processors; 2.to support client-side transformations; 3.allow previously-encoded XML; 4.allow alternative rendering of elements; 5.provide users with a tool that can be used without additional programming

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9. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Methods of Encoding Multiple Versions of Text w/in the TEI double-end-point attached location-referenced method parallel segmentation

10. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Parallel Segmentation I labour in a barren place, Afraid, aware, little blundering, lonely thing: Alone, self- conscious, frightened, blundering;

11. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities And time grows afraid of the triumph of time. The fifth of six allegorical triumphs in Petrarch's Trionfi is the Triumph of Time. Petrarch's Triumphs, often depicted as Father Time in his chariot surrounded by symbolic devices such as the scythe and hourglass, were frequently represented by Baroque and Renaissance artists. </app

12. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Features of the VM typology of notes: glosses [g]; biographical notes [b]; critical and/or contextual notes [c]; and notes about the physical artifiact [p]. Also a fifth note type: can be undefined or user defined; represented by a "n" icon (for note).

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14. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities fluidity of the writing process allows editors to distinguish within a particular witness bibliographic features as holograph and/or typescript emendations and erasures; feature controlled by a combination of XSLT and CSS; Utilise XSLT to transform the elements, leaving display protocols to the CSS. allows for editorial control of display via the CSS (presumption that most editors would find it easier to manipulate CSS)

15. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Element matching in previous versions line matching across a witness set highlights parallel-encoded units across versions; Matches on,,,,,,, and ; For display purposes the entire line across witnesses is highlighted

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17. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Changes to this version - Support for additional TEI elements, including,,, and - New popup note display based entirely on CSS (no JavaScript) - Improved visual layout and new color scheme and font - Faster performance on larger documents thanks to coding improvements - Dropped support for older (pre-7.0) versions of Internet Explorer

18. Dr Susan Schreibman Long Room Hub Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities Questions?