1st Edition
Mesotext Digitised Emblems, Modelled Annotations and Humanities Scholarship
By Peter Boot
Copyright 2009
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation. Digital editions should offer a facility where researchers can store structured and unstructured observations with respect to the edited texts. This book discusses a number of approaches to annotation systems in the context of the study of emblems, the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary... Read more
Part I. Context of this Study, 1. Introduction, 2. An Introduction to Emblem Studies, 3. Annotating the Digital Edition, Part II. Emblem Digitisation and the Emblem Project Utrecht, 4. A Model for Digital Emblem Editions, 5. Digital Editing and Text Modelling: The Case of the Emblem Project Utrecht, Part III. Digital Annotation Tools, 6. Digital Edition Annotation using EDITOR, 7. A Sane Approach to Annotation in the Digital Edition, 8. Decoding Emblem Semantics, 9. Creating a Metaphor Index, 10. Towards a TEI-Based Encoding Scheme for the Annotation of Parallel Texts, Part IV. Emblem Studies,11. A Mirror to the Eyes of the Mind. Metaphor in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615), 12. Playing and Displaying Love. Theatricality in Otto van Veen’s Amoris Divini Emblemata (Antwerp1615), Part V. Reflections, 13. Mesotext. Framing and Exploring Annotations, 14. Conclusion, Appendices, Samenvatting, Glossary – List of Abbreviations, Literature, Acknowledgements, Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Peter Boot is a researcher in Humanities Computing in the e-Research department of the Huygens Institute (The Hague) and wrote a PhD thesis at Utrecht University.
