Brown Bag lunch #S2E02: Introducing in-house digital projects (29 September 2015)
The original version of this note can be found at: http://etherpad.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:9001/p/bb_digitalprojects_20150929
Notes for Brown-Bag DH workshop S2E02 (29.9.2015): Introducting in-house digital projects
Who: (Please put your name here) Shih-Pei, Robert, Lino, Ahmet, Jaro, Adrian, Zoe
1. GMPG: by Jaromir
- Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft/History of the Max Planck Society
- 6km of paper files
- Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
- Also very recent events. "On the living object".
2. Local Gazetteers Project
- Preserve structure in the course of digitization
- Possibilities for focused search
- Getting credit for publishing data
- LGDataverse. Built on Harvard Dataverse.
- Cf. markup platforms
- automatic markup
- also make your manual markup available for further research
3. ISMI: Islamic scientific manuscripts initiative
- bibbliographic challenges
- no author, no title, no date
- comment of comment of text
- Object-oriented database
- Tools
- OpenMind
- Drupal site
- full text search
- Neo4J
- Platin
Next time:
Sphaera: headed by Matteo Valleriani Dept. I.
- Collect all the editions of "De Sphaera" by Johannes Sacrobosco (astronimy). 1230 AD.
- where the books were used, reused, published.