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Towards a Digital Edition of the Slovenian Biographical Lexicon

Petra Vide OgrinSlovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,

Library

Tomaž ErjavecDepartment of Knowledge Technologies,

Jožef Stefan Institute

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SBL (publication, nature, significance)SBL (publication, nature, significance) MMethodology: ethodology:

TEI P5TEI P5 up-conversion into TEI-XML formatup-conversion into TEI-XML format

EExample of TEI-XML article structure:xample of TEI-XML article structure: skeletonskeleton actual XML documentactual XML document

FFuture plans: implementation of IR systemuture plans: implementation of IR system

Overview of the talkOverview of the talk

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SBLSBL

15 volumes + index, published over a long period of 15 volumes + index, published over a long period of time (1925-1991)time (1925-1991)

WWho is included? : notable figures important for ho is included? : notable figures important for Slovenian cultural life, from the beginnings up to the Slovenian cultural life, from the beginnings up to the contemporary timecontemporary time - - criteriacriteria

CCovers 5,031 biographical entries, over 5,100 overs 5,031 biographical entries, over 5,100 personspersons

DData in the articles are checked against the relevant ata in the articles are checked against the relevant primary material sourcesprimary material sources

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Methodology of encodingMethodology of encoding

UUse of open standards and softwarese of open standards and software UUse of TEI P5 Guidelinesse of TEI P5 Guidelines UUp-conversion from OCR source into TEI-XMLp-conversion from OCR source into TEI-XML DDown-conversion into XHTMLown-conversion into XHTML

((IImplementation of DL open source software mplementation of DL open source software →→ fullfull--text and advanced searching)text and advanced searching)

TEI – Text Encoding InitiativeTEI – Text Encoding Initiative

What’s TEI?What’s TEI? Why do we encode?Why do we encode?

to make explicit (to a machine) what is implicit (to a person)

to add value by supplying annotations (structural metadata)

to facilitate re-use of the same material XML (eXtensible Markup Language):

international standard application-, platform- and vendor- independent extensible

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TEI P5TEI P5

no backward compatibility with P4 – new possibilities no backward compatibility with P4 – new possibilities for text encodingfor text encoding

validation of an XML document: checking against an validation of an XML document: checking against an XML schemaXML schema

an XML schema (XML syntax) = project-specific an XML schema (XML syntax) = project-specific combination of TEI modulescombination of TEI modules

extension and generalization of modular systemextension and generalization of modular system interoperability and standards (ISO, W3C: Unicode, interoperability and standards (ISO, W3C: Unicode,

lang lang →→ xml:lang, id xml:lang, id →→ xml:id) xml:id) some new elements, e. g. for biographical and some new elements, e. g. for biographical and

prosopographical data prosopographical data →→ relev relevaant for nt for SBLSBL project project

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Up-conversion into TEI-XMLUp-conversion into TEI-XML

OpenOffice – TEI OO package (XSLT OpenOffice – TEI OO package (XSLT stylesheets) stylesheets) →→ TEI-XML document (basic TEI-XML document (basic structure)structure)

(semi-)automatic encoding – to achieve the (semi-)automatic encoding – to achieve the needed structure:needed structure: Perl, XSLTPerl, XSLT manual intervention (correction)manual intervention (correction)

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An SBL articleAn SBL article TTypical structure: ypical structure:

biographical entrybiographical entry biography: data about birth, death, residence, biography: data about birth, death, residence,

occupation, important events (marriage, ordination occupation, important events (marriage, ordination etc.)etc.)

representative bibliography that depicts a person's representative bibliography that depicts a person's life and worklife and work

OOne or more paragraphsne or more paragraphs EEncyclopaedic style: dense language, many ncyclopaedic style: dense language, many

abbreviations (biblabbreviations (bibliographyiography, authors, general: , authors, general: e.g. e.g. months (Sept.) emonths (Sept.) etc.)tc.)

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Article TEI-XML structureArticle TEI-XML structure

<div><div>

<listPerson><listPerson>

<person><person>

<!--other elements for biographical <!--other elements for biographical data: birth, death, occupation ...-->data: birth, death, occupation ...-->

</person></person>

</listPerson></listPerson>

<p><p>

<!--the annotated text of the article--><!--the annotated text of the article-->

</p></p>

</div></div>

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Future plansFuture plans

IImplementation of an IR system – for full-mplementation of an IR system – for full-text and advanced searchingtext and advanced searching

PPossible adoption of PhiloLogicossible adoption of PhiloLogic EExploring automatic recognition, extraction xploring automatic recognition, extraction

and and encodingencoding of data of data