CHAPTER 4.2 SGML/XML:

IATH'S SGML SOFTWARE





IATH'S WORK IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING IATH SOFTWARE
   

SCREEN SHOTS OF IATH SOFTWARE




IATH'S WORK IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING



IATH projects use SGML encoding in the preparation of electronic scholarly text editions, and IATH has developed some software applications.

IATH's software is developed with the goal of being "broadly useful in the humanities computing world, that runs over the Internet in conjunction with the Web, and that addresses problems not likely to be solved by those who develop software for business and entertainment."

IATH's web site offers a short "Software" page, which features several of IATH's software packages for SGML-related humanities work. Some examples now follow.







IATH SOFTWARE



Located at http://www.village.virginia.edu/software.html
or http://www.iath.virginia.edu/software.html

IATH's software is available for download.


Some IATH software descriptions, and screen shots, now follow.


* INote: An Image Annotation Program.
A Java application allowing the user to annotate images with text, audio, or other images, using one or more overlays. INote can also automatically identify lines or columns of text for annotation, and IATH is working on SGML utilities that will allow a user to connect SGML transcriptions and annotated images.

* IBabble: A Synoptic Unicode Browser.
An SGML-capable synoptic text tool that can display multiple texts in parallel windows. It uses Unicode, which allows multilingual texts. IBabble also allows users to search for strings in text or in tags, and to link open texts for scrolling and searching.

* MU: Web broswer-based, "forms-assisted" SGML Markup.
A set of programs which allow users to create and modify SGML files, using standard Web browsers as the editing interface. MU is distributed with a sample template for the TEI Lite DTD.
MU "helps to automate the SGML markup process." It makes use of web browsers' ability to input data using "forms" (e.g., fill-in-the-blank text fields, buttons, etc.)
MU will be useful for humanities computing, but its author cautions that it is "extremely difficult to set up."

"TRY IT NOW !"

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mu/mu.html

 Create a "test" SGML file with MU, on MU's "Demo Page."

(The Demo Page's document will use TEI markup.)






SCREEN SHOTS OF IATH SOFTWARE



(Note: The quality of some of the following "screen shots" degraded slightly during the process of shrinking them to fit this page.)





INote












IBabble



Two languages displayed together. (above)






SGML with tags hidden by default. (above)




SGML with tags displayed. (above)







MU







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