Digital Classicist London 2017: 8. Dorothea Reule
Channel: Digital Classicist London Seminars
Date: 2017-07-21

Dorothea Reule & Pietro Liuzzo (University of Hamburg)
Issues in the development of digital projects based on user requirements. The case of Beta maṣāḥǝft

Abstract and details: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017-08dr.html

Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017.html

"Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea” aims at building a research environment for data related to the Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscript tradition, encoding and relating manuscript descriptions, editions of literary works and records about ancient and modern places and persons. The challenges of meeting data entry users’ needs are keeping the schema canonical while enabling all necessary encoding, developing visualization choices on an individual basis without twisting the guidelines and enabling the execution of some tasks without XML knowledge. End users will expect comprehensive information on manuscripts, yet the resulting resource catalogue, navigable between entities, can be disorienting.