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3.0 Release of the transcription tool from the Center for Digital Humanities
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Enable Multiple Transcription Layers #1

Open cubap opened 8 years ago

cubap commented 8 years ago

From @cubap on October 16, 2015 3:14

Include creation and editing support for the layer property insc:Manifest which may separate transcription annotations into trans-canvas layers of a shared purpose and potentially continuous content.

Use Cases

  1. A music manuscript may have the notes annotated in MEI terms, while the lyrics are transcribed in one layer and translated in another. This application would not offer a preference to one, as another arrangement may, but still allows for alignment.
  2. A heavily glossed or commented manuscript may benefit from separate layers for the main text and the running commentary.
  3. A palimpsest or similarly reused support may contain parallel annotations, which may in turn preference their own reading angles or image choice.

Copied from original issue: cubap/TPEN3#1

AmAntiquarian commented 8 years ago

How (if it all) could this be leveraged to iclude reconciliation of transcriptions of the same document? I know that there are workarounds to make this feasible now, but having to be a built in feature would be great.

cubap commented 8 years ago

The annotation includes the selector, so my knee-jerk thought is that you couldn't easily just show "voluebat? Omnis equi quod" above or alongside "uoluebat omnes equi quod" with only one line highlighted unless there was another way to align them with each other (column/line number, for example). However, it would be very reasonable to build an interface that expects this type of use and to combine this with #18 and #4 to make it very simple.

This is a great opportunity for use cases to set priority or for a specific project which would be otherwise underfunded to use T-PEN services to create a purpose-built interface without having to worry about user authentication, database management, or standards.