Re: MEDEA. Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts

Dear Robert,

as Kathryn already pointed out, MEDEA is persuing a slightly different
aim as it tries to map TEI markup to a RDF ontology (which seems us
better suited for handling economic data extracted from text) - so we
suggest you to use any basic encoding which fits to the textual
structure of your source: if it looks table style use <tr> per entry, if
its list style use <li><item>, if you feel comfortable with paragraphs
use <div><p> or just avoid to much fuzz by using <ab>, MEDEA doesn't
mind. Only follow the vocabulary of the MEDEA ontology Kathryn has sent
you to add the interpretational layer.

Of course you could replace the generic textual markup with added @ana
attributes with dedicated markup using ODD. I did a preleminary version
of this in a (German)
project (http://gams.uni-graz.at/srbas/) where you can find the ODD used
at
http://gams.uni-graz.at/archive/objects/context:srbas/datastreams/ODD/content,
an XSLT to create pure TEI with @ana markup at
http://gams.uni-graz.at/archive/objects/cirilo:srbas/datastreams/TOTEI/content
and the XSLT creating the RDF out of this at
http://gams.uni-graz.at/archive/objects/cirilo:srbas/datastreams/TORDF/content
. Transactionography could be another possiblity for a path from
transcription to RDF although we haven't yet set up the necessary
stylesheets to automate this.

We are on our way to publish more samples on our approach and develop
demonstration workflows, so we would be very happy to read a bit about
your project and the goals you are striving for with your encoding and
look for possibilities to support you. Just contact us off-list!

I've uploaded a draft version of the paper, Kathryn is pointing to, at
gams.uni-graz.at/rem/Vogeler2016.pdf.

Georg

> Betreff:     Re: TEI-L Digest - 11 Jan 2017 to 12 Jan 2017 (#2017-10)
> Datum:     Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:09:05 -0500
> Von:     Kathryn Tomasek <[email protected]>
> Antwort an:     Kathryn Tomasek <[email protected]>
> An:     [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Thanks, Martin, for pointing to the MEDEA project website.
> 
> Georg Vogeler at the Centre for Information Modeling, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, University of Graz, is working on the MEDEA ontology. You can find his work on github: https://github.com/GVogeler/bookkeeping
> 
> Basically, the idea is to choose whatever markup seems best for your document--list, table, div, p--and then use @ana to add references to the bookkeeping ontology:
> 
> #bk_entry
> #bk_amount
> #bk_quantity
> #bk_what
> #bk_to
> #bk_from
> #bk_credit
> #bk_between
> #bk_transfer
> 
> Either Georg or I will be happy to say more. His most recent publication shows some examples, and we have an article under review for DSH, with another going in to JTEI. The latter has some examples of markup from my work on the Wheaton Family Papers.
> 
> Vogeler, Georg.2016. “The Content of Accounts and Registers in their Digital Edition. XML/TEI, Spreadsheets, and Semantic Web Technologies”, in: Edition von RechnungenundAmtsbüchern, ed. by JürgenSarnowksy, V&R Unipress(available in print and e-text).
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> Kathryn
> 
> Kathryn Tomasek
> Associate Professor of History
> Wheaton College
> Norton, Massachusetts
> @KathrynTomasek
> 
> Our Wheaton College was founded as a school for the higher education of women in 1834.
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> 
> 
> Am 12.01.2017 um 23:10 schrieb Martin Holmes:
>> Hi Robert,
>> 
>> I don't know MEDEA myself, but it seems to be here:
>> 
>> <https://medea.hypotheses.org/>
>> 
>> It appears to be more of a working group than a standard; I don't see
>> any ODDs or schemas on their site. The only detailed work I know in this
>> area is Kathryn's:
>> 
>> <http://jtei.revues.org/895>
>> 
>> because I was working on the journal when it was published. That article
>> links to her ODD and schemas here:
>> 
>> <http://www.customization.encodinghfrs.org/>
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> Martin
>> 
>> On 2017-01-12 01:23 PM, Robert Foley wrote:
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> We are creating a digital version in TEI of a historic Fairfield,
>>> Connecticut merchant account book and are looking for best practices for
>>> the ODD and the tag set.  We began by creating our own markup using the
>>> TEI, but meanwhile we just met Kathryn Tomasek of Wheaton College at the
>>> recent AHA history conference who suggested we use 'MEDEA' the Modeling
>>> semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts.
>>>
>>> Could you please direct us to the MEDEA codebook, ODD, sample template
>>> to ensure that we have the correct markup of this already developed TEI
>>> project?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Robert Foley
>>> Research Historian
>>> Bridgeport Digital Humanities Initiative
>>> http://bridgeporthistory.us/
>>>
>>>
>>