personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed... more personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that the first page of each copy bears this notice and the full citation including title and authors. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission from the copyright
The paper provides an overview of the digital tools developed as part of the Ebla Digital Archive... more The paper provides an overview of the digital tools developed as part of the Ebla Digital Archives Project, which aims to offer a digital edition of roughly 3,000 cuneiform tablets from ancient Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh, in western Syria), dated to the middle of the third millennium BCE. The Ebla archive is the oldest one in the history of mankind, for which extensive information concerning the primary setting of the documents is available. The archaicity of the writing system, combined with the inherent difficulties in reconstructing languages from the remote past (Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite), pushes us to rethink the strategies to properly digitally capture the complexity of these sources, of invaluable historical significance: administrative documents, literary texts, vocabularies, letters, etc. We tackled the problem through the development of a PostgreSQL database, which is populated by ad hoc Python scripts that parse input transliteration files, which in turn are encoded usi...
A widely acknowledged obstacle for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web is the inability of m... more A widely acknowledged obstacle for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web is the inability of many current Semantic Web approaches to cope with data available in such diverging representation formalisms as XML, RDF, or Topic Maps. A common query language is the first step to allow transparent access to data in any of these formats. To further the understanding of the requirements and approaches proposed for query languages in the conventional as well as the Semantic Web, this report surveys a large number of query languages for accessing XML, RDF, or Topic Maps. This is the first systematic survey to consider query languages from all these areas. From the detailed survey of these query languages, a common classification scheme is derived that is useful for understanding and differentiating languages within and among all three areas.
This paper describes a preliminary investigation on the problem of adding a search mechanism to t... more This paper describes a preliminary investigation on the problem of adding a search mechanism to the Museum-on-Demand model for the construction of virtual museums for the World Wide Web. An important novelty of this approach is the possibility of performing a search without losing the current context of visit, but rather by refining it. Moreover, the approach is general, since it could be applied to tasks other than the search, by providing the user with tools to manipulate the information returned by the browser. The approach has been implemented with simple search facilities to demonstrate its feasibility.
Data cleansing is a commonly encountered problem while working with documents with the purpose of... more Data cleansing is a commonly encountered problem while working with documents with the purpose of extracting useful information. There exist several solutions that actually are related to the dataset type, the data organization and the working domain the dataset is related to. There exist different issues related to the datasets like the merge between different datasets, the data extraction from a database that can contains different errors. Errors in datasets’ records is a well known problem that can affects the results of a data extraction operation. In the presented work some methods have been implemented in order to clean up data fields in a database in order to characterize and classify them.
how to manage changes. We share completely the opinion of Richardson and Schwarz AN OBJECT DATA MODEL expressed in (7): "Most object-oriented database systems display serious shortcoming in their ability to model both WITH ROLES
Manuzio: A Model and a Language for Representing and Manipulating Annotated Text Collections
Traditionally, collections of texts are digitally represented as a set of documents containing th... more Traditionally, collections of texts are digitally represented as a set of documents containing the text along with some kind of markup to define extra information, like metadata, annotations, etc. We propose a dierent approach that models the textual information in a dual way: as a formatted sequence of characters, as well as a composition of a par- ticular kind of objects, called textual objects. With them, it is possible to represent dierent structures over the same text, together with com- plex annotations. Manuzio is a statically typechecked language to define a schema of such textual objects, and to write complex queries and ap- plications on them with a set of powerful operators. In this paper we introduce the foundation of our textual model, the main features of the language, as well as a sketch of a system to manage persistent collections of texts and execute Manuzio programs.
More and more large repositories of texts which must be automatically processed represent their c... more More and more large repositories of texts which must be automatically processed represent their content through the use of descriptive markup languages. This method has been diffused by the availability of widely adopted standards like SGML and, later, XML, which made possible the definition of specific formats for many kinds of text, from literary texts (TEI) to web pages (XHTML). The markup approach has, however, several noteworthy shortcomings. First, we can encode easily only texts with a strict hierarchical structure while text has often concurrent hierarchies. Then, extra-textual information, like metadata or annotations, can be tied only to the same structure of the text and must be expressed as strings of the markup language. Third, queries and programs for the retrieval and processing of text must be expressed in terms of languages like XQuery [4], in which every document is represented as a tree of nodes; for this reason, in documents where parallel, overlapping structures exists, the complexity of XQuery programs becomes significantly higher. Consider, for instance, a collection of classical lyrics, with the two parallel hierarchies lyric > stanzas > verses > words, and lyric > sentences > words, with title and information about the author for each lyric, and where the text is annotated both with commentary made by different scholars, and with grammatical categories in form of tree-structured data. Such a collection, if represented with markup techniques, would be very complex to create, manage and use, even with sophisticated tools, requiring the development of complex ad-hoc software. To overcome the some of the above limitations partial solutions exist (see for instance [3]), but at the expense of greatly increasing the complexity of the representation through difficult to read markup extensions, like the so-called "milestone" elements. Moreover, markup query languages need to be extended to take these solutions into consideration [1], making even more difficult to access and use such textual collections. In the project "Musisque Deoque. A digital archive of Latin poetry, from its origins to the Italian Renaissance" sponsored by the Italian MIUR, we have built a model and a language to represent repositories of literary texts with any kind of structure, with multiple and scalable annotations, not limited to textual data,
personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed... more personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that the first page of each copy bears this notice and the full citation including title and authors. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission from the copyright
The paper provides an overview of the digital tools developed as part of the Ebla Digital Archive... more The paper provides an overview of the digital tools developed as part of the Ebla Digital Archives Project, which aims to offer a digital edition of roughly 3,000 cuneiform tablets from ancient Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh, in western Syria), dated to the middle of the third millennium BCE. The Ebla archive is the oldest one in the history of mankind, for which extensive information concerning the primary setting of the documents is available. The archaicity of the writing system, combined with the inherent difficulties in reconstructing languages from the remote past (Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite), pushes us to rethink the strategies to properly digitally capture the complexity of these sources, of invaluable historical significance: administrative documents, literary texts, vocabularies, letters, etc. We tackled the problem through the development of a PostgreSQL database, which is populated by ad hoc Python scripts that parse input transliteration files, which in turn are encoded usi...
A widely acknowledged obstacle for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web is the inability of m... more A widely acknowledged obstacle for realizing the vision of the Semantic Web is the inability of many current Semantic Web approaches to cope with data available in such diverging representation formalisms as XML, RDF, or Topic Maps. A common query language is the first step to allow transparent access to data in any of these formats. To further the understanding of the requirements and approaches proposed for query languages in the conventional as well as the Semantic Web, this report surveys a large number of query languages for accessing XML, RDF, or Topic Maps. This is the first systematic survey to consider query languages from all these areas. From the detailed survey of these query languages, a common classification scheme is derived that is useful for understanding and differentiating languages within and among all three areas.
This paper describes a preliminary investigation on the problem of adding a search mechanism to t... more This paper describes a preliminary investigation on the problem of adding a search mechanism to the Museum-on-Demand model for the construction of virtual museums for the World Wide Web. An important novelty of this approach is the possibility of performing a search without losing the current context of visit, but rather by refining it. Moreover, the approach is general, since it could be applied to tasks other than the search, by providing the user with tools to manipulate the information returned by the browser. The approach has been implemented with simple search facilities to demonstrate its feasibility.
Data cleansing is a commonly encountered problem while working with documents with the purpose of... more Data cleansing is a commonly encountered problem while working with documents with the purpose of extracting useful information. There exist several solutions that actually are related to the dataset type, the data organization and the working domain the dataset is related to. There exist different issues related to the datasets like the merge between different datasets, the data extraction from a database that can contains different errors. Errors in datasets’ records is a well known problem that can affects the results of a data extraction operation. In the presented work some methods have been implemented in order to clean up data fields in a database in order to characterize and classify them.
how to manage changes. We share completely the opinion of Richardson and Schwarz AN OBJECT DATA MODEL expressed in (7): "Most object-oriented database systems display serious shortcoming in their ability to model both WITH ROLES
Manuzio: A Model and a Language for Representing and Manipulating Annotated Text Collections
Traditionally, collections of texts are digitally represented as a set of documents containing th... more Traditionally, collections of texts are digitally represented as a set of documents containing the text along with some kind of markup to define extra information, like metadata, annotations, etc. We propose a dierent approach that models the textual information in a dual way: as a formatted sequence of characters, as well as a composition of a par- ticular kind of objects, called textual objects. With them, it is possible to represent dierent structures over the same text, together with com- plex annotations. Manuzio is a statically typechecked language to define a schema of such textual objects, and to write complex queries and ap- plications on them with a set of powerful operators. In this paper we introduce the foundation of our textual model, the main features of the language, as well as a sketch of a system to manage persistent collections of texts and execute Manuzio programs.
More and more large repositories of texts which must be automatically processed represent their c... more More and more large repositories of texts which must be automatically processed represent their content through the use of descriptive markup languages. This method has been diffused by the availability of widely adopted standards like SGML and, later, XML, which made possible the definition of specific formats for many kinds of text, from literary texts (TEI) to web pages (XHTML). The markup approach has, however, several noteworthy shortcomings. First, we can encode easily only texts with a strict hierarchical structure while text has often concurrent hierarchies. Then, extra-textual information, like metadata or annotations, can be tied only to the same structure of the text and must be expressed as strings of the markup language. Third, queries and programs for the retrieval and processing of text must be expressed in terms of languages like XQuery [4], in which every document is represented as a tree of nodes; for this reason, in documents where parallel, overlapping structures exists, the complexity of XQuery programs becomes significantly higher. Consider, for instance, a collection of classical lyrics, with the two parallel hierarchies lyric > stanzas > verses > words, and lyric > sentences > words, with title and information about the author for each lyric, and where the text is annotated both with commentary made by different scholars, and with grammatical categories in form of tree-structured data. Such a collection, if represented with markup techniques, would be very complex to create, manage and use, even with sophisticated tools, requiring the development of complex ad-hoc software. To overcome the some of the above limitations partial solutions exist (see for instance [3]), but at the expense of greatly increasing the complexity of the representation through difficult to read markup extensions, like the so-called "milestone" elements. Moreover, markup query languages need to be extended to take these solutions into consideration [1], making even more difficult to access and use such textual collections. In the project "Musisque Deoque. A digital archive of Latin poetry, from its origins to the Italian Renaissance" sponsored by the Italian MIUR, we have built a model and a language to represent repositories of literary texts with any kind of structure, with multiple and scalable annotations, not limited to textual data,
Scientific Team: David Bryant, Augusto Celentano, Luigi Collarile, Renzo Orsini, Rafael Brundo Uriarte
Object of study is the collection of choir-books containing the polyphonic repertoire of the Ducal Chapel of St Mark's, now preserved in the Archivio Storico del Patriarcato di Venezia. These music manuscripts – 14 volumes 'in folio' and some fragments – represent the largest nucleus of what remains of the cappella's early repertoire. They transmit the music performed 'a cappella' by the singers (without instrumental accompaniment) from the so-called 'pulpitum magnum', an polygonal structure in the nave of the church to the right of the iconostasis. For centuries, this repertoire represented the basic 'soundscape' of the Ducal Chapel. The manuscripts were declared 'UNESCO World Heritage' in October 2014.
The project represents the completion of a research program begun in 2013 by Luigi Collarile with the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://p3.snf.ch/Project-147795), in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University, Venice (2013-2015).
The present project has the following three objectives:
1. the creation of a multimedial digital portal, containing: i) digital reproductions of the entire collection of choir-books with polyphonic music, ii) historical and bibliographical metadata, and iii) a modern critical edition (open-access). In future, it will be possible to enhance the digital platform with audio/visual contents. Project development in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of Ca' Foscari University, coordinator Renzo Orsini.
2. open-access publication of a modern critical edition of the choir-books with polyphonic music (64 compositions and some fragments) – the first complete critical edition of this important musical collection, which contains several hitherto unpublished 'unica'. Scientific and editorial work will be carried out by David Bryant and Luigi Collarile.
3. an international conference, in the context of a project promoted by the Venetian Procuratoria di San Marco in collaboration with Italian and foreign institutions, aimed at presenting the restoration and related research to the scientific community and a wider audience.
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Scientific Team: David Bryant, Augusto Celentano, Luigi Collarile, Renzo Orsini, Rafael Brundo Uriarte
Object of study is the collection of choir-books containing the polyphonic repertoire of the Ducal Chapel of St Mark's, now preserved in the Archivio Storico del Patriarcato di Venezia. These music manuscripts – 14 volumes 'in folio' and some fragments – represent the largest nucleus of what remains of the cappella's early repertoire. They transmit the music performed 'a cappella' by the singers (without instrumental accompaniment) from the so-called 'pulpitum magnum', an polygonal structure in the nave of the church to the right of the iconostasis. For centuries, this repertoire represented the basic 'soundscape' of the Ducal Chapel. The manuscripts were declared 'UNESCO World Heritage' in October 2014.
The project represents the completion of a research program begun in 2013 by Luigi Collarile with the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://p3.snf.ch/Project-147795), in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University, Venice (2013-2015).
The present project has the following three objectives:
1. the creation of a multimedial digital portal, containing: i) digital reproductions of the entire collection of choir-books with polyphonic music, ii) historical and bibliographical metadata, and iii) a modern critical edition (open-access). In future, it will be possible to enhance the digital platform with audio/visual contents. Project development in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics of Ca' Foscari University, coordinator Renzo Orsini.
2. open-access publication of a modern critical edition of the choir-books with polyphonic music (64 compositions and some fragments) – the first complete critical edition of this important musical collection, which contains several hitherto unpublished 'unica'. Scientific and editorial work will be carried out by David Bryant and Luigi Collarile.
3. an international conference, in the context of a project promoted by the Venetian Procuratoria di San Marco in collaboration with Italian and foreign institutions, aimed at presenting the restoration and related research to the scientific community and a wider audience.