Challenging the Myth of Presentation in Digital Editions

Are the data of an edition means to a particular and privileged presentation, or is the presentation a side effect? Because of the changing nature of computer systems, with constant progression in hardware and software, the encoded texts are the most important long-term outcome of the project—the re...

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Autores principales:	Magdalena Turska, James Cummings, Sebastian Rahtz
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Publicado:	OpenEdition 2016
Materias:	TEI digital edition publication framework processing TEI Simple Computer engineering. Computer hardware TK7885-7895
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3621c1f55eb842f19ddd88185a8add7a2021-12-02T11:31:23ZChallenging the Myth of Presentation in Digital Editions2162-560310.4000/jtei.1453https://doaj.org/article/3621c1f55eb842f19ddd88185a8add7a2016-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/jtei/1453https://doaj.org/toc/2162-5603Are the data of an edition means to a particular and privileged presentation, or is the presentation a side effect? Because of the changing nature of computer systems, with constant progression in hardware and software, the encoded texts are the most important long-term outcome of the project—the representation of the knowledge— and presentation within a particular application is destined to become obsolete relatively quickly. However, it is most often the presentation output, rather than the source data, which is published and shared. We believe this is largely because there is currently no way of expressing, in the source encoding, aspects of presentation which are seen by editors as a crucial part of their work. Given a framework for encoding processing expectations for a variety of output formats, editors would be much more inclined to share the encoded files as their prime output, and intentions for presentation would be much more likely to survive repeated technology transitions as processing tools develop and change. We believe the collision between the individuality of research and the quest for common tools that aid in the creation of digital editions will be solved not by creating another piece of specialized publishing software but rather by creating a general framework for processing TEI documents and similar, modular solutions for other tasks in the publishing workflow. Such an abstraction layer admittedly still requires some fluency in computer technologies, but far less than for setting up a publication system from scratch in a general-purpose programming language.Magdalena TurskaJames CummingsSebastian RahtzOpenEditionarticleTEIdigital editionpublication frameworkprocessingTEI SimpleComputer engineering. Computer hardwareTK7885-7895DEENESFRITJournal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Vol 9 (2016)
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description	Are the data of an edition means to a particular and privileged presentation, or is the presentation a side effect? Because of the changing nature of computer systems, with constant progression in hardware and software, the encoded texts are the most important long-term outcome of the project—the representation of the knowledge— and presentation within a particular application is destined to become obsolete relatively quickly. However, it is most often the presentation output, rather than the source data, which is published and shared. We believe this is largely because there is currently no way of expressing, in the source encoding, aspects of presentation which are seen by editors as a crucial part of their work. Given a framework for encoding processing expectations for a variety of output formats, editors would be much more inclined to share the encoded files as their prime output, and intentions for presentation would be much more likely to survive repeated technology transitions as processing tools develop and change. We believe the collision between the individuality of research and the quest for common tools that aid in the creation of digital editions will be solved not by creating another piece of specialized publishing software but rather by creating a general framework for processing TEI documents and similar, modular solutions for other tasks in the publishing workflow. Such an abstraction layer admittedly still requires some fluency in computer technologies, but far less than for setting up a publication system from scratch in a general-purpose programming language.
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Challenging the Myth of Presentation in Digital Editions

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