Both my friends Prentiss Riddle and Coulter George have suggested that I resolve my software name quandry by looking for placenames in Julia Brumfield's diaries. I like this suggestion, since it retains the connection to the project's origin and has potential for uniqueness. The most frequently mentioned placenames in the diaries are "Renan", "Straightstone", "Mount Airy", … [Read more...] about Name Update: Renanscribe?
Feature: Zoom
Scanners and modern digital cameras can take photos at mind-bogglingly high resolutions. The 5 megapixel Canon SD400 I've used to capture the diary pages results in enormous files. Displaying them at screen resolution, the images are several times the size of the average monitor. This kind of resolution is fantastic for resolving illegible words — from my testing, it seems … [Read more...] about Feature: Zoom
Feature: Subject Indexes
One of the main goals of the diary digitization project is to create printed versions of Julia Brumfield's diaries to distribute to family with little internet access. The links between manuscript pages and articles described below provide the raw material for a print index. Reading storing page-to-article links in RDBMS record makes indexing almost, but not quite … [Read more...] about Feature: Subject Indexes
Feature: Article Links
Both Wikipedia and Pepys Diary Online allow hyperlinks to be embedded into articles. These links are tracked bi-directionally, so that by viewing an article, you can see all the pages that link to it. This is an easy enough thing to do, once you allow embedded links: UI The text markup to insert a link needs to be simple and quick, yet flexible if the scribe has the need … [Read more...] about Feature: Article Links
Gavin Robinson's Project Wenham
On his indispensable Investigations of a Dog, Gavin Robinson describes digitizing his grandfather's letters from a German POW camp in WWI: The text will be transcribed and marked up with TEI compliant XML, and published on the web, along with background information written by me. There will be an index of people, and possibly places. Another optional extra will be selections of … [Read more...] about Gavin Robinson's Project Wenham