Open Paleography data

This is a private repository organizing some paleographic observations in the format that will be used for the Open Paleography project.

File format

csv format, in five columns. Note that order of columns is significant, since our automated processing assumes data will follow this pattern. Note also that in csv format, any columns of data including commas in their data values must be protected by surrounding them in quotation marks. This will always apply to image references with RoI, and may also apply to free text commentary.

1. URN for observation. This should be a CITE URN for the observation. The collection will be identified as urn:cite:openpal.TEAM where TEAM is a value assigned to a team of contributors by one of the Open Paleography directors. Within that collection, team members should use unique numbers to identify individual obervations. Example: if we assign team1 to a group, their first observation could be urn:cite:openpal:team1.1.
2. URN for text passage. This should be a CTS URN, including a numerically indexed substring identifying what is captured in the observation. Example: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.msA:2.4@τ[1] means "first occurrence of the letter tau in passage 2.4 of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad". The indexed substring should identify precisely what is legible in the text, e.g., cite abbreviated forms, not their expansion.
3. Reading of text passage. In many cases, this will be no more than the indexed substring (e.g., in the preceding example it would simply be τ), but the reading might also be an expansion of a an abbrevation.
4. Image reference. Image + RoI, created with Image Citation Tool.
5. Comments. Free text.

Example line from csv file:

urn:cite:openpal:team1.1,urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.msA:2.4@τ[1],τ,"urn:cite:hmt:vaimg.VA024RN-0025@0.1702,0.5522,0.025,0.021",tau

Or look at the data file for the Venetus A in the repository here.

Organization of teams

Data are kept in the data directory with individual files for each manuscript or document surveyed.

URNs for contributing teams, the texts they are assigned, and references to appropriate URNs and ICT installations for their project are currently being managed through the project wiki.