Sandrart.net: An enriched online edition of a 17th century text

Carsten Blüm, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
February 23rd, 2012 • Berlin

Agenda

What is “Sandrart.net”?

What we achieved


Annotations

Some thoughts on lifecycles

The subject

Joachim von Sandrart: “Teutsche Academie der Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste”

Nürnberg 1675 / 1679 / 1680

The subject

3 volumes • 1,600 pages (not including blank pages) • 6.9 million characters • Approx. 300 full-page copperplate engravings

The Idea

Goals

In one sentence:
A (partially) annotated web-based edition of the “Teutsche Academie” that assists the user in finding persons and places mentioned in the text and that offers partial translations to other languages.

The project


Current state

Resources

Current state

Information retrieval

Connecting & linking

The edition

Annotations

Annotations

The need to be precise

Annotations

The side-effects of complexity

Annotations

Annotations & “The Cloud”

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Reliable content vs. ongoing development

Benefits

Thank you

Contact

Carsten Blüm, bluem@sandrart.net

URLs

Project website: www.sandrart.net

Edition: ta.sandrart.net

Appendix – In case someone asks: Transcription

Why manual text transcription?

Appendix – In case someone asks: Tagging

Why manual tagging of entities in the text?

Appendix – In case someone asks: TEI usage

TEI usage

Appendix – In case someone asks: Handling of annotations

Method

Reasons

Appendix – In case someone asks: Implementation

KISS principle: “LAMP”

“XML shredding”

Why no XML database?

Appendix – In case someone asks: Context-sensitive Shredding

Appendix – In case someone asks: Changed content

Changes since the first launch of the edition in July 2008

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