Representation and Encoding of Heterogeneous Data in a Web Based Research Environment for Manuscript and Textual Studies

This paper describes the general architecture of a digital research environment for manuscript and textual studies (particularly those pertaining to ancient Greek and Byzantine texts), and it discusses some questions of data representation and encoding in the framework of such an online research platform. The platform is being developed by the project Teuchos. Zentrum für Handschriften- und Textforschung, established in 2007 by the Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie (Universität Hamburg) in cooperation with the Aristoteles-Archiv (Freie Universität Berlin). Teuchos is a long-term infrastructural project of the Universität Hamburg. It is currently in its three-year initial phase which is being co-funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the "Thematic Information Networks" scheme within the "Scientific Library Services and Information Systems" programme. We introduce the main object types to be handled by our system and describe the overall functionality of the online platform. The paper focuses on the representations of two main object types: manuscripts as textual witnesses and watermarks, with an emphasis on the former. Since the adequate encoding of different layers of structure of a transmitted text is particularly relevant to optimising users' choices of navigating both digital images of the containing manuscripts and trancriptions of the text contained, this topic is discussed in some detail. We introduce the formal data model and the corresponding encoding for the object types discussed. The project encodes textual data in XML, aiming for TEI conformance where possible. Since no accepted XML model exists for the encoding of metadata within a watermark collection, we briefly explain how we chose to model the objects to accomodate the collections the project is making accessible

Encuentro Latinoamericano en Educación Estadística: entre la oportunidad y el reto (reseña)

El Encuentro Latinoamericano en Educación Estadística (ELEE), se celebró los días 4 y 5 de julio de 2008 en el Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), campus México. Ésta constituyó la segunda reunión organizada por una comunidad de profesores e investigadores de habla española o portuguesa interesados en abrir espacios en eventos internacionales relacionados con la investigación y difusión de la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la estadística. Los resultados de este encuentro fueron muy halagüeños en términos de los objetivos de este grupo por conformar una comunidad latinoamericana en enseñanza de la estadística en su propio idioma

THE VIRTUAL TRAINING CENTER: A SUPPORT TOOL FOR TEACHERS COMMUNITY

Communities of practice for teachers are emerging, where the issues of life long learning of in-service teacher is supported by a collective effort and by applying modern methodologies and tools. The paper describes how effective support to teachers communities is achieved by means of a Virtual Training Center, that is the virtual meeting place of the community, which was built during the I*Teach pilot project. Teachers who have similar goals, but few opportunities to physically meet each other and with other project participants, may share information and discussions about the development phases that precede and follow the actual application of the proposed methodologies and tools within their classrooms

Conference Reports: Twentieth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Regional and Global Ethiopia – Interconnections and Identities, Mekelle, 1–5 October 2018: (1) Past, Present and Future of Editing Ethiopian Texts; (2) Automatic Text Processing and Digital Humanities for Ethiopian Language and Culture

Twentieth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Regional and Global Ethiopia – Interconnections and Identities, Mekelle, 1–5 October 2018: (1) Past, Present and Future of Editing Ethiopian Texts (Daria Elagina); (2) Automatic Text Processing and Digital Humanities for Ethiopian Language and Culture (Cristina Vertan