Digital Humanities Projects by Bleier Roman
A TEI edition of Witley Stokes's 19th century edition of the Liber Angeli encoded in TEI P4 with ... more A TEI edition of Witley Stokes's 19th century edition of the Liber Angeli encoded in TEI P4 with corrections from the Book of Armagh manuscript.
http://dh.tcd.ie/clontarf/
Co-designer and content provider for the 1014 Battle of Clontarf Webs... more http://dh.tcd.ie/clontarf/
Co-designer and content provider for the 1014 Battle of Clontarf Website exploring the history, context and legacy of Ireland’s most famous medieval battle.
Talks by Bleier Roman
The Letters of 1916 is a project to create a collection of correspondence written around the time... more The Letters of 1916 is a project to create a collection of correspondence written around the time of the Easter Rising in Ireland or by Irish people. The project uses a crowdsourcing approach: not only experts, but anybody can contribute by uploading images of letters and transcribing them.
Since September 2013, when the project was launched, a large number of letter imageshave been uploaded and transcribed via our website (http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/) and stored in a relational database. The next stage of the project is it to make the collected images, transcriptions, and metadata available in the form of a digital edition.
The transition from our crowdsourcing environment to a digital scholarly edition is challenging on many levels. One of the biggest challenges is it to ensure normalisation and accuracy of the TEI encoding. Our workflow can be broken down into the following stages: firstly, extraction of transcriptions and metadata from the relational databases in which they are currently stored; secondly, insertion of metadata and transcriptions into TEI templates; and, finally, both automated and manual error checking and proofing to ensure the transcriptions are consistently encoded, valid TEI documents.
After a general view on our crowdsourced collection process for metadata and transcriptions and issues related to it, our paper will discuss strategies and methodologies we use to create valid and meaningful TEI transcriptions. Essentially the TEI encoding has to be general enough to be worthwhile (and useful as TEI data for future usage) and consistent enough to be ingested back into a relational database that is the “digital edition”.
Papers by Bleier Roman
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 7, 2022
Das Mittelalter, 2019
Die mediävistische Forschung entwickelte schon sehr früh digitale Hilfsmittel und Methoden. 1 Die... more Die mediävistische Forschung entwickelte schon sehr früh digitale Hilfsmittel und Methoden. 1 Die grundlegende Interdisziplinarität und Methodenvielfalt in der Mediävistik mag ein für die Geisteswissenschaften vergleichsweise hohes Maß an Methodenbewußtsein und eine Affinität zur Formalisierung von Arbeitsweisen begünstigt haben. Beides sind unabdingbare Voraussetzungen einer digital betriebenen geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Tatsächlich war einer der Gründungsväter dessen, was heute gemeinhin als ‚Digital Humanities' bezeichnet wird, ein Mediävist. Der Jesuitenpater Roberto Busa erbat in den 1940er Jahren von Thomas J. Watson, dem Gründer des damals führenden Herstellers von elektronischen Büromaschinen IBM, eine Rechenanlage, mit der er eine Konkordanz des Gesamtwerks von Thomas von Aquin zu erstellen gedachte. Nur auf dieser Basis ließe sich die tatsächliche Bedeutung der Worte des großen mittelalterlichen Denkers ermessen. 2 Seither ist die Verwendung computergestützter Methoden zur Beantwortung mediävistischer Fragestellungen weit vorangeschritten. Auf wissenschaftlichen Veranstaltungen wurde (und wird) ihr spezifischer Nutzen diskutiert und in ver-Open Access. © 2019 Roman Bleier et al., publiziert von De Gruyter. Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz.
Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics, 2019
This paper deals with challenges in adapting the XML-TEI publishing framework Versioning Machine ... more This paper deals with challenges in adapting the XML-TEI publishing framework Versioning Machine to compositional drafts of 20th-century literary works and describes the main customisations that have been implemented to suit a genetic edition of poetry by Pedro Homem de Mello. The case study emphasises that even minimal customisations require technical work that may go beyond an editor's skill.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 2016
St Patrick’s two fifth-century epistles, the Confessio and the Epistola survive in seven medieval... more St Patrick’s two fifth-century epistles, the Confessio and the Epistola survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses of Irish, continental and English origin, the earliest dating to the ninth century. This paper looks at the incipit headings found in the seven manuscripts, plus a contents- list of works that is in one case presented in one case, and analyses what these reveal about the role that the epistles were seen as playing in contemporary society. Published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C (2016).
19th annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI), 2019
St Patrick’s two fifth-century epistles, the Confessio and the Epistola survive in seven medieval... more St Patrick’s two fifth-century epistles, the Confessio and the Epistola survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses of Irish, continental and English origin, the earliest dating to the ninth century. This paper looks at the incipit headings found in the seven manuscripts, plus a contents- list of works that is in one case presented in one case, and analyses what these reveal about the role that the epistles were seen as playing in contemporary society. Published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C (2016).
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Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, Jun 30, 2017
St Patrick of Ireland, the fifth-century missionary and bishop, wrote two epistles which are comm... more St Patrick of Ireland, the fifth-century missionary and bishop, wrote two epistles which are commonly referred to as Confessio and Epistola ad milites Corotici. These two texts survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses which were copied centuries after Patrick's time. This article discusses digital transcriptions of these manuscript witnesses. The transcriptions were encoded using the encoding standard of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) following a documentary editing approach. The transcriptions will be the core of a new digital documentary edition. This edition is meant to be a research tool for the exploration of the medieval documents, but at the same time it is a mediator between the manuscript witnesses and existing text-critical editions and translations of the texts. This mediator function is achieved by including markers of lines and chapter of a canonical edition and links to an existing text-critical edition online. In the final section a few examples will briefly be look at that illustrate what kind of analysis will be possible and what visual presentations of the transcriptions will be incorporated in the new edition.
Digital Humanities and Christianity
ExLing 2019: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 2019
This paper deals with challenges in adapting the XML-TEI publishing framework Versioning Machine ... more This paper deals with challenges in adapting the XML-TEI publishing framework Versioning Machine to compositional drafts of 20th-century literary works and describes the main customisations that have been implemented to suit a genetic edition of poetry by Pedro Homem de Mello. The case study emphasises that even minimal customisations require technical work that may go beyond an editor's skill.
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Document Changes Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization - DChanges '16, 2016
The chapter reflects on the process of creating a research website about the Battle of Clontarf f... more The chapter reflects on the process of creating a research website about the Battle of Clontarf from the perspective of humanities researcher.
St Patrick of Ireland, the fifth-century missionary and bishop, wrote two epistles which are comm... more St Patrick of Ireland, the fifth-century missionary and bishop, wrote two epistles which are commonly referred to as Confessio and Epistola ad milites Corotici. These two texts survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses which were copied centuries after Patrick’s time. This article discusses digital transcriptions of these manuscript witnesses. The transcriptions were encoded using the encoding standard of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) following a documentary editing approach. The transcriptions will be the core of a new digital documentary edition. This edition is meant to be a research tool for the exploration of the medieval documents, but at the same time it is a mediator between the manuscript witnesses and existing text-critical editions and translations of the texts. This mediator function is achieved by including markers of lines and chapter of a canonical edition and links to an existing text-critical edition online. In the final section a few examples will briefly be look at that illustrate what kind of analysis will be possible and what visual presentations of the transcriptions will be incorporated in the new edition.
St Patrick’s two fifth-century epistles, the Confessio and the Epistola survive in seven medieva... more St Patrick’s two fifth-century epistles, the Confessio and the Epistola survive in seven medieval manuscript witnesses of Irish, continental and English origin, the earliest dating to the ninth century. This paper looks at the incipit headings found in the seven manuscripts, plus a contents- list of works that is in one case presented in one case, and analyses what these reveal about the role that the epistles were seen as playing in contemporary society. Published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C (2016).
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Digital Humanities Projects by Bleier Roman
Co-designer and content provider for the 1014 Battle of Clontarf Website exploring the history, context and legacy of Ireland’s most famous medieval battle.
Talks by Bleier Roman
Since September 2013, when the project was launched, a large number of letter imageshave been uploaded and transcribed via our website (http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/) and stored in a relational database. The next stage of the project is it to make the collected images, transcriptions, and metadata available in the form of a digital edition.
The transition from our crowdsourcing environment to a digital scholarly edition is challenging on many levels. One of the biggest challenges is it to ensure normalisation and accuracy of the TEI encoding. Our workflow can be broken down into the following stages: firstly, extraction of transcriptions and metadata from the relational databases in which they are currently stored; secondly, insertion of metadata and transcriptions into TEI templates; and, finally, both automated and manual error checking and proofing to ensure the transcriptions are consistently encoded, valid TEI documents.
After a general view on our crowdsourced collection process for metadata and transcriptions and issues related to it, our paper will discuss strategies and methodologies we use to create valid and meaningful TEI transcriptions. Essentially the TEI encoding has to be general enough to be worthwhile (and useful as TEI data for future usage) and consistent enough to be ingested back into a relational database that is the “digital edition”.
Papers by Bleier Roman
Co-designer and content provider for the 1014 Battle of Clontarf Website exploring the history, context and legacy of Ireland’s most famous medieval battle.
Since September 2013, when the project was launched, a large number of letter imageshave been uploaded and transcribed via our website (http://dh.tcd.ie/letters1916/) and stored in a relational database. The next stage of the project is it to make the collected images, transcriptions, and metadata available in the form of a digital edition.
The transition from our crowdsourcing environment to a digital scholarly edition is challenging on many levels. One of the biggest challenges is it to ensure normalisation and accuracy of the TEI encoding. Our workflow can be broken down into the following stages: firstly, extraction of transcriptions and metadata from the relational databases in which they are currently stored; secondly, insertion of metadata and transcriptions into TEI templates; and, finally, both automated and manual error checking and proofing to ensure the transcriptions are consistently encoded, valid TEI documents.
After a general view on our crowdsourced collection process for metadata and transcriptions and issues related to it, our paper will discuss strategies and methodologies we use to create valid and meaningful TEI transcriptions. Essentially the TEI encoding has to be general enough to be worthwhile (and useful as TEI data for future usage) and consistent enough to be ingested back into a relational database that is the “digital edition”.