May 19, 2010 at 12:09 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Having worked for quite a while on creating the new VTO2 website I sent it around a while ago to my supervisors to see what they thought. Imagine my disappointment when one of them replied that they couldn’t get the fancy AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) search engine to work. I double checked everything and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why it wasn’t working on her machine. I don’t remember how I realised it but it became apparent that when she had typed a search pattern in she then pressed ‘enter’ / ‘return’. This was bit of a ‘duh’ moment for me. I had myself been so fascinated by the AJAX LiveSearch abilities that I had managed to create that I hadn’t stopped to think that one of the first reactions most people will have to a search-box is most naturally to press ‘enter’.
So I searched the web far and wide and came up with no solution. I then decided to make sure that when ‘enter’ submitted the form it just went back to the same page allowing the user to begin again. I then added a request below asking that the user did not press ‘enter’ while doing a search.
But then today while I was moving the whole website to a new (and yeah – much faster) server it struck me to search for “ajax deactivate enter”. Up came this post about “Disable form submit on enter keypress” written by Slobodan Kovacevic in 2005.
I did as he suggests and ‘hey presto’ it worked in Firefox, Safari and I presume IE (although I haven’t checked this yet). I was amazed because normally when I have small but very significant issues like that it takes ages to find the answer. But not this time.
May 12, 2010 at 1:36 pm · Filed under Events
The last couple of days the eSAD project have had our Colloquium on “e-Research on Texts and Images” at the British Academy, London.
Alejandro Giacometti, postgraduate student at UCL, has been summing up the talks!
This has been a very useful event for my research. As I am in the midst of writing up the chapter on the research and literature background leading up to my project I found many of the talks very enlightening.
I talked shortly about APPELLO (the word-search Web Service that I have been building recently) and Tom Elliot talked about how they are trying to make their resources and tools available and open. I was very interested in this, as it would be great to be able to use larger resources as knowledge bases for the Decision Support System. More on this later, I’m sure…
April 19, 2010 at 12:34 pm · Filed under Thesis writing
At the moment I am in the midst of writing about IT and ancient documents. This is a basic overlook of the research so far in this area. I decided to divide it into different subjects such as: text encoding, corpora/online resources, expert systems, character corpora, image analysis and image annotation. Today I am looking at the last subject: image annotation.
So far I have found a couple of projects that are working on this:
- TILE – Text-Image Linking Environment
Collaborative project aiming to develop a web based image mark-up tool for linking between encoded text and image annotations ( based on AXE – AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) XML encoder).
Issue: Link to AXE is not working!
- UVic Image Mark-up Tool Project
Desktop based mark-up tool conforming to TEI P5 XML
- VRE-SDM – Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Documents and Manuscripts
Finished pilot creating a workspace allowing collaborative annotation and organising of images while searching through related text datasets.
- DocSouth’s img2xml
Enables the tracing of handwriting with output in SVG and linking to encoded texts.
Issue: Not a lot is written on this and many dead links!
If anyone reads this and knows of other projects that I haven’t displayed here please feel free to comment or drop me an email at henriette dot roued at classics dot ox dot ac dot uk. I am also very interested in hearing about any literature concerning this subject or any of the above subjects.
March 18, 2010 at 1:12 pm · Filed under Doctorate
Follow my Day of DH, an initiative started last year by the University of Alberta, Canada.
“A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a community publication project that will bring together digital humanists from around the world to document what they do on one day, March 18th. The goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together the journals of the participants into a picture that answers the question, “Just what do computing humanists really do?” Participants will document their day through photographs and commentary in a blog-like journal. The collection of these journals with links, tags, and comments will make up the final work which will be published online.” (Day of DH)
February 26, 2010 at 11:49 am · Filed under Uncategorized
As a follow up on Mondays post on the introduction, I will explore the background a bit more.
We are still looking at the book “Writing the winning thesis or dissertation: a step-by-step guide” (Glatthorn & Joyner: 2005).
The book has a really helpful way of defining the background of the study from 4 different perspectives:
- Societal background
- Intellectual background
- Professional background
- Research background
I used this way of defining the background and made a mindmap. This has really helped me to define the influences that this thesis is built upon.
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