Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universiteit Utrecht, 2009
The most strikingly missing piece of functionality in current digital editions is that of annotation. Digital editions should offer a facility where researchers can store structured and unstructured observations with respect to the edited texts. This book discusses a number of approaches to annotation systems in the context of the study of emblems, the sixteenth and seventeenth century literary genre that joins an image, a motto and an often moralizing epigram. When handled properly, annotation can become mesotext, text positioned between the annotated texts and the scholarly articles and monographs for which the annotations provide the evidence. In a digital context, it should be possible to navigate back and forth between annotated text, annotation and article
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284)
Table of Contents; Part I. Context of this Study; 1. Introduction; 2. An Introduction to Emblem Studies; 3. Annotating the Digital Edition; Part II. Emblem Digitisation and the Emblem Project Utrecht; 4. A Model for Digital Emblem Editions; 5. Digital Editing and Text Modelling: The Case of the Emblem Project Utrecht; Part III. Digital Annotation Tools; 6. Digital Edition Annotation using EDITOR; 7. A Sane Approach to Annotation in the Digital Edition; 8. Decoding Emblem Semantics; 9. Creating a Metaphor Index; 10. Towards a TEI-Based Encoding Scheme for the Annotation of Parallel Texts
