Digital Humanities Forum
A forum on the past, present, and future of digital humanities research at the University of Chicago and around the world.
Our Next Forum
March1, 12-2pm: DIGS Classroom 005, 5720 S Woodlawn
Miller Prosser, Director of Online Publications, Forum for Digital Culture
Infinitely Recombinant Multimodal Digital Publications: A Graph Database Approach to Digital Text Editing with OCHRE
As digital text editors, we ask only for a computational text editing platform that models all writing systems and all languages; allows for editorial observations at the grapheme, word, phrase, and text level; integrates textual, image, audio, video, spatial, and temporal data; compares manuscript editions of works; supports the implementation of well-known metadata schemas while allowing for customization where necessary; and allows for complex querying. It is no wonder that a comprehensive computational text editing platform has been something of a white whale. This talk provides an overview of practical approaches to complex digital text editing tasks being developed at the Forum for Digital Culture using the OCHRE platform.
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