Re: Cocoa texts and conversions?
Elisa <[email protected]>
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This is an interesting thread for those of us, like me anyhow, who increasingly find ourselves in a position to repurpose old 1990s or even 1980s code and begin to realize that once our markup universe was a lot more diverse, and also that those old projects will require some serious TLC to "repurpose" now. I wonder if really COCOA and friends require pipeline stages of conversion, something like what Wendell Piez does to map LMNL to TEI? It also sounds like every conversion is a custom-fit process, and I think we ought to develop more guiding explanation on how to assess, plan, and map out conversion processes like these. In other words, more documentation, since we can't provide a magic-bullet stylesheet. I'm supposed to be working on a project kind of related to this on "up-conversion" process, and part of the title of "Starting from Mess". It only looks like "mess" now when conversion isn't a simple one-step process, and when we realize how much serious work may be involved in curating a project only a few decades old. Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD Director, Center for the Digital Text Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 150 Finoli Drive, Greensburg, PA 15601 USA E-mail: [email protected] | Development site: http://newtfire.org Typeset by hand on my iPad > On Jan 7, 2017, at 4:04 AM, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Lou Burnard <[email protected]> wrote: >> I also think the claim on Wikipedia that the TEI maintains this conversion needs a bit of attention. > > OK, that's probably my fault. If someone who understands the situation better than I has ten minutes to hit edit on-wiki and explain, that would be great. > > cheers > stuart >