Z Score,T Score, Percential Rank and Box Plot Graph
A Comparative Kalendar - DH2013 Presentation
1. A Comparative Kalendar:
Building a Research Tool for Medieval Books of
Hours from Distributed Resources
Benjamin Albritton
Stanford University
blalbrit@stanford.edu
@bla222
Robert Sanderson
Los Alamos National Laboratory
rsanderson@lanl.gov
@azaroth42
James Ginther, Saint Louis University
Martin Foys, Drew University
Shannon Bradshaw, Drew University
2. Distributed Resources
• Digital Manuscript Interoperability
– SharedCanvas
– International Image Interoperability Framework
– Open Annotation (separate project, but we use it)
• Multiple Repositories
• Multiple cataloging and discovery approaches
• Goal: Exercise the promise of interoperability
for specialist analytic tools
3. A Sea of Manuscript Data
• Interoperability – at lowest level, ability for
third-party tools to consume content from
multiple sources in an identical way
http://sul-reader-test.stanford.edu/el-camino
4. A Sea of Manuscript Data
• Interoperability – at next level, tools provide
data back into the system that can be re-used
T-PEN (http://t-pen.org): transcription, line-parsing, RDF export
5. A Sea of Manuscript Data
• Interoperability – at next level, tools provide
data back into the system that can be re-used
DM (http://dm.drew.edu/dmproject/): general annotation
6. A Sea of Manuscript Data
• Currently ca. 2500 manuscripts available via
SharedCanvas / IIIF
• At current pace, many thousands more by late
2014
• Mixed bag of metadata, quality, content, etc.
• A challenge to the traditional “index”
• Few are interested in “all” – many are
interested in specific subsets
7. Liturgical Books and Structured Data
Beinecke MS 310, f. 1r
Kalendars
• Ubiquitous
• Structure
• Daily list of liturgical events
• Arranged in a perpetual
calendar
• Often tabular
• Content varies according to
• Date
• Region of use or production
• Etc
• Minor variations transmit a great
deal of information
8. Liturgical Books and Structured Data
Beinecke MS 310, f. 1r
Pilot Goals
• Build an extensible navigation
and discovery tool for books
containing kalendars
• Using existing image data from
interoperable repositories and
user-generated data from
interoperable tools
• Focusing on the key elements
provided in the kalendar: dates
and liturgical events
9. Rethinking Digital Facsimiles
Walters Ms. W.188, Book of Hours in Dutch f16r
• Distributed
• Linked Data and Resources
• Single Global Space
• Interactive
• Consumer as Producer
• Interoperable
• Seamlessly Interconnected
• Open Source, Open Content
10. Rethinking Digital Facsimiles
Walters Ms. W.188, Book of Hours in Dutch f16r
• Distributed
• Linked Data and Resources
• Single Global Space
• Interactive
• Consumer as Producer
• Interoperable
• Seamlessly Interconnected
• Open Source, Open Content
• … 100% Buzzword Compliant
12. Model: Canvas Paradigm
• A Canvas is an empty space in which to build up a display
• A SharedCanvas's top left and bottom right corners correspond to the
equivalent corners of a [rectangular bounding box around a] page
13. Model: Annotations to Paint Canvas
• The Canvas represents the empty page
• Annotation links Image with Canvas
18. Kalendar Data for Extraction
Beinecke MS 310, f. 1r
• Each row = 1 day (January 1, here)
• Lists the feast of the Circumcision
• Optionally provides additional information
20. SharedKalendar?
• Annotations as re-useable data
• Every record for the transcribed Kalendars
becomes a means for organization and
discovery within the available manuscripts
• Offers:
– Quick comparison of known content
– Ability to present line-level context
• Across multiple objects
– Across multiple repositories and projects
23. For each record:
Basic information
PLUS:
• Link out to a canvas
viewer implementation
showing:
• Transcription in
context
• Full page of kalendar
• Ability to move
around w/in the
manuscript
