Spenser Project -- Tools Presentation

Identifying variants

• Abby and Abby Fine Reader
• gocr
• ocrad
• tesseract (Google books)
• wustl-written code


• Maybe leaf recognition would help?

Collating variants

• Works --> Editions --> Witnesses --> Observations
• Robomegan(s)
• Repositories --> Extant witnesses
• Editorial tools
• Scan viewer
• Intereditional collation

Consolidating data

• Subversion
• Oxygen
• Collation database -- editorial tools -- Transform the XML file . . .
• "Our" XML editor.

Linking commentary and secondary texts

• The "better than a sharp stick in the eye" linker

Presentating results

• The NEH sample pages, showing how we can navigate textual variants.
• Automatically identifying lines:
• A curled image with complex perspective
• Its "debug" output
• "Super-linker reader (aka "better than a sharp stick in the eye" linker reader
• "Super-linker" (aka "better than a sharp stick in the eye" linker
• Tag cloud demo
• Experimental visualizations:
• Shakespeare's sonnets
• Theatre vs. Complaints
• Theatre vs. FQ
• All of Spenser's poetry
• Counting syllables