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.

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…

So far I have found a couple of projects that are working on this:

1. 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!

2. UVic Image Mark-up Tool Project

Desktop based mark-up tool conforming to TEI P5 XML

3. 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.

4. 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.

“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)

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:

1. Societal background
2. Intellectual background
3. Professional background
4. 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.

It has worked so far and I now have a draft for an introduction. This is one of my favorite chapters and also I believe one of the most important chapters of any written work. It is like that vital first impression you give at a job interview. You introduction must be like a good solid handshake. Don’t present a limp, dead fish but don’t crush their bones either. (Do have a look at Oatmeal’s other crap handshakes though).

The book “Writing the winning thesis or dissertation: a step-by-step guide” (Glatthorn & Joyner: 2005) has been great help on how to structure my introduction (chapter 16; page 163). It suggests the following sections:

1. Introduction to the chapter
2. Background of the study
3. Problem statement
4. The professional significance of the study
5. An overview of methodology
6. The delimitations of the study
7. Definition of key terms

Vindolanda – http://www.vindolanda.com

VTO – Vindolanda Tablets Online: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

EpiDoc – Epigraphical Documents in TEI: http://epidoc.sourceforge.net

Contextual encoding

Hippisley, D. (2005) “Encoding the Vindolanda tablets: an investigation in contextual encoding using XML and the EpiDoc standards.” MA Dissertation submitted for the MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing, School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL.

RESTful Web Services

Abeysinghe, S. 2008. RESTful PHP Web Services, Birmingham: PACKT Publishing

Fielding, R. T. 2000. Architecture Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures,

Richardson, L.  and Ruby, S. 2007. RESTful Web Services, Cambridge: O’Reilly

Spies, B. 2008. Web Services, Part 1: SOAP vs. REST http://ajaxonomy.com/2008/xml/web-services-part-1-soap-vs-rest (25.11.09)

eSAD

Some of these publications are available via the eSAD website

Roued-Cunliffe, H. 2010. Towards a Decision Support System for Reading Ancient Documents, Literary and Linguistics Computing – forthcoming,

Olsen, H. R. , Tarte, S. , Terras, M. , Brady, M. and Bowman, A. K. 2009. Towards an Interpretation Support System for Reading Ancient Documents, Digital Humanities Conference 2009

Tarte, S. 2010. Papyroligical Investigations: Transferring Perception and Interpretation into the Digital World, Literary and Linguistics Computing – forthcoming,

Tarte, S. , Brady, M. , Olsen, H. R. , Terras, M. and Bowman, A. K. 2008c. Image acquisition & analysis to enhance the legibility of ancient texts, E-Science All Hands Meeting 2008

Terras, M. 2006. Image to Interpretation. An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts, Oxford University Press

WordPress plugins

SimpleFlickr

AVH Amazon

API garden interface

The API garden have a list of the available methods, which you can choose and then you can use the application to put together the correct URL.

This is the URL I put together to get a list of photos from a specific set:

http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getPhotos&api_key=2d537c691c158b91201d3469eedd07c6&photoset_id=72157621516651630&api_sig=3d1a2dffeac7c399c1989044d0979ef2

I have used this information to display these images on my own blog. In reality I could write some XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) and display them any way I want but in this case I have cheated and used wordpress and the SimpleFlickr plugin to display the photos in a blog post.