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Intro To LBP Schema - MD
Intro To LBP Schema - MD
2017-01-13
Editors:
• Jeffrey C. Witt (Loyola University Maryland)
• Michael Stenskjær Christensen (University of Copenhagen)
• Nicolas Vaughan (Universidad de los Andes)
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for a particular problem domain. The primary focus of the LombardPress-
Schema is to provide a uniform encoding standard for the editing of the medieval
scholastic corpus (though its adoption is not limited to this domain), with a
special emphasis on supporting critical and (semi) diplomatic transcriptions.
The ultimate goal of providing such a standard is the ideal of text interoperability
within the domain of scholastic texts so that any text edited according to this
standard can be immediately displayed on the web (via web clients such as
the LombardPress-Web application) or in print (via print clients such as the
LombardPress-Print application and available print stylesheet packages).
Further, the LombardPress-Schema is not only concerned with facilitating the
ease of presentation of an individual text or text fragment, but is also concerned
to help facilitate, through the adoption of the ontology and guidelines of the
Scholastic Commentaries and Texts Archive, the construction of a network corpus
from previously isolated text fragments.
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the wider corpus. The SCTA build script can then be modified to crawl two
distinct, but standardized and documented, data serializations. Nevertheless,
the LombardPress-Schema is, at the present, the most mature attempt both
to provide a detailed encoding standard for all scholastic texts and to offer
guidelines about how to prepare a text in such a way that it can be easily
absorbed within the Scholastic Commentaries and Texts Archive.