| HD-50601-09 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Image to XML (img2xml) | 5/1/2009 - 4/30/2011 | $50,000.00 | Natalia | N. | Smith | Hugh | | Cayless | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill | NC | 27599-1350 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 50000 | 0 | 50000 | 0 | Development an open-source transcription and annotation tool using Scalable Vector Graphics for historical and literary archival manuscripts, using materials from the Carolina Digital Library and Archives as a test bed.
The img2xml ("image to XML") project plans to develop a 100% Open Source set of components for the linking and display of manuscript images, transcriptions and annotations. The linking will be based on a Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) tracing of the text in the manuscript image, which will then be analyzed and displayed via a web browser interface using tools developed for web-based map viewing. This means that links can be made to and from a graphical representation of the actual text on the page rather than a box drawn around it. The proposed approach will enable linking between text and image in a more fine-grained way than any annotation tool currently in existence. This work represents a fundamentally different way of connecting manuscript images with transcriptions and annotations. |