Miltenova - Ontotext

Vienna, November 30, 2012

Electronic Corpus of Slavic Manuscripts and Texts with

Relevant MetadataProf. Anissava Miltenova

Department of Old Bulgarian LiteratureInstitute for Literature

Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSofia


Cultural context: medieval literature of Slavia Orthodoxa

• More than 90% of texts are translated from Greek;• Byzantine texts were not only translated, but

transformed;• Old Church Slavonic texts were very often modified, they

have many versions;• The prototype of text often remains relative, or even

unknown; Slavic scribes created a new recension based primarily on divinatio, or often under the influence of multiple sources (contaminatio);

• Very often one manuscript is scattered in 2-5 libraries/ collections /countries.


E-corpus of Medieval Slavic Manuscripts

• Cataloguing of manuscripts, analytical description• Facsimiles in the form of computerized image files,

linked to the catalogue database • Sets of text files linked both to the relevant catalogue

database entries and facsimile image files• Corpuses of Old Church Slavonic texts and parallel

Greek sources (CPG, BHG, others)• Dictionaries• Ontology of terminology• Workstation for medievalists: real or illusive?


Principles of processing• TEI P5 guidelines;• The encoding of Old Church Slavonic is based

on Unicode 5.1;• Standardization of document file format;• Multiple use (ensured by the separation of data

from processing);• Portability of electronic texts (independence of

local platforms);• Orientation towards well-structured divisions of

data in XML;• User friendly and fast access.


Repertory of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters: Content and Metadata

• To make possible access to medieval manuscripts for all purposes of research in medieval studies - textology- codicology- paleography- identification of text and analysis of context of every text, etc.)

• As much as bigger is the corpus, so important is the help of computer tools for searching and extraction of data.

• Access: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~repertorium/

http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~repertorium/


Browser view


Encoding in oXygen


Outcomes1. Model for highly structured description of manuscript

materials based on XML format (designed joint with Andrej Boyadzhiev, Sofia University) TEI P5;

2. Corpus of over 350 Slavic manuscripts (11th--18th

centuries);3. Model for electronic editions of Old Slavonic texts in XML

format and approximately 370 pages electronic texts;4. Model for comparison of the content of miscellanies and

visual presentation in SVG format;5. Glossaries of terms, authority files and and thesaurus of

terminology (8 languages –Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian, English, German, French, Old Church Slavonic and Greek), over 750 articles in Moodle software: http://moodle.ilit.bas.bg/

http://moodle.ilit.bas.bg/


Repertorium Workstation


SVG tool: David Birnbaum, University of Pittsburgh


Terminology project “Metadata and Electronic catalogues”: from Thesaurus to Ontology



Cooperation✔ Project “Electronic Description and Edition of Slavic Sources”, 2002-

2003 (UNESCO)✔ Project “Slovo” (2007-2008): Transfer of knowledge among working

teams of five countries (Austria, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia) and joint research work.

• Digital collections of manuscripts of monasteries: St Catherine's on Mount Sinai, Dečani monastery, Markov monastery, Rila monastery

• Organization of a workshop on digital libraries of Slavic Manuscripts in Sofia in February 2008 and a round table on the Balkan monastic culture.

• Production of a specialized portal on medieval Slavic culture ”SLOVO”: http://slovo-aso.cl.bas.bg/

✔ The project with Slavic department in the University of Göteborg (2003-2011) and Uppsala (2012-2014)

✔ Project with British Library (2004-2011): “Machine-readable description and electronic catalogue of Slavic Manuscripts”

✔ Project “Digital Scholarly Editions and Developments in the Slovenian and Bulgarian Literary Studies” with ZRC Slovenia (2010-2013)

http://slovo-aso.cl.bas.bg/


Project “Encyclopedia Slavica Sanctorum”

• Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum is a joint project of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia and Institute of Literature, Old Bulgarian Literature Department.

• Main goal is to build a repertory of medieval and early modern Bulgarian texts for saints in combination with ethnological data and some visual sources.

• During the project IMI-BAS team produces a digital repository for on-line Web access to the Bulgarian information on saints, i.e. Encyclopaedia Slavica Sanctorum Calendar (ESS)

• Online access: http://www.eslavsanct.net/

http://www.eslavsanct.net/


Achievments• Repertorium database are very powerful research

instruments, more accurate and more comfortable for the users;

• Scholars changed their point of view on the effectiveness of the applications of modern software tools to manuscripts and medieval texts;

• Strong international cooperation and exchange of information in the field of computational medieval studies and computational humanities in general;

• Bridge over the gap between West Europe and East Europe is also essential today and even more for the future.


A digital edition ofCodex Suprasliensis (2010-2012)

• To unite digital images of all three parts of the Codex Suprasliensis;

• To create electronic version of the OCS text in Unicode; (a prior electronic version was transliterated in 7-bit ASCII distributed by the Corpus Cyrillo-Methodianum Helsingiense and the TITUS project);

• To create electronic version of Greek texts;• To develop searching system;• To add translation in English;• Edition is freely available under a Creative Commons

BY- NC-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ )


What is the Codex Suprasliensis?

• Cyrillic• Late tenth century• 37 quires• 285 folia, 1о• Leaf: 31 X 23 cm• Text box: 23 X 15 cm • One column


Decoration


Orthography

Colophon of Retko in the margin


Preservation of the Codex Supasliensis

• University Library in Ljubljana: 118 folia, Kopitarcollection;

• Russian National Library in St. Petersburg: 16 folia, A. F. Byčkov collection;

• National Library in Warsaw, 151 folia, counts Zamoyski collection, lost at the time of the World War II, reemerged in the USA and was returned to Poland in 1968;

• listed in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register since 2007;

• The project is supported by UNESCO.• Main page of the project: http://csup.ilit.bas.bg/

http://csup.ilit.bas.bg/


Contents

• Primarily vitae of martyrs from the 3rd-4th centuries

– Paul and Juliana– St Basiliscus– Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

• 1st-2nd centuries– Conon of Isauria

• 6th-7th centuries– St Gregory the Great, Pope of

Rome• 9th century

– Forty-two Martyrs of Amorium• Anchorites

– Paul the Simple



Browse the text: main viewhttp://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/• Paragraphed OCS

– Helsinki ASCII transcription converted to Unicode and corrected manually against facsimile in Zaimov/Capaldo edition

– Paragraphing introduced by editors• Linked to

– Parallel Greek (from Zaimov/Capaldo edition)– Parallel English (new translation by Thomas Lysaght)– Folio views (see below)

• Linguistic commentary– Word-for-word, scrolls and highlights– Back-linked

• Web fonts

http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/


Browse the text: folio viewhttp://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/pages/supr027v.htmlhttp://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/pages/supr218v.html

• Interlinear OCS and Greek on left– Mouse-over linguistic commentary

• Facsimile on right– New photographs, contributed by repositories– Magnifying glass

• Links to other folios• Links to main view and searches• Same OCS and Greek text and linguistic annotation as

main view– Single source = multipurposing

http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/pages/supr027v.html

http://suprasliensis.obdurodon.org/pages/supr218v.html



Incorporation into PROIEL

http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel//


Thank you!Pitagor award, 2009

Acknowledgements:Working team: Department of

Old Bulgarian Literature, Institute of Literature BAS: www.ilit.bas.bg

Methods: Commission to the ICS:http://www.obshtezhitie.net/commission/index.html

Anissava Miltenova, [email protected]

Andrej Boyadzhiev [email protected]

David J. Birnbaum, [email protected]

Hanne Martin Ekhoff [email protected]

http://www.ilit.bas.bg/

http://www.obshtezhitie.net/commission/index.html

http://www.obshtezhitie.net/commission/index.html

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