Technical Information Digital Scriptorium Technical Information DS-Access - Tool for managing and contributing DS data (based on Microsoft Access) DS-XML - Tools for contributing DS data via XML Image Contribution - Background and guidelines for contributing DS images Berkeley Ruler - Tool for analysing DS images Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 33783 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/[5/15/2009 11:24:18 AM] DS-Access: Digital Scriptorium data capture tool Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-Access DS-Access: Digital Scriptorium data capture utility About DS-Access - The Digital Scriptorium data capture utility Learn about DS-Access... Documentation - User Guide, Data Dictionary, Release Notes, etc. Version 9 Version 8 Version 7 Downloads - Download the most recent updates, sample databases, etc. Available downloads... Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 30261 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-access/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:19 AM] DS-XML Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-XML DS-XML: Specifications for contributions to DS via XML Transcription DTD Documentation TEI Exension Description DTD Documentation TEI Extension Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 33788 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-xml/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:20 AM] Image Contribution Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > Image Contribution Contributing Images to DS Images are selected to document each phase of a given manuscript's production, maximizing the amount of information available in a single image: thus, an image chosen primarily for its decorated initial may also supply visual information on the book's support, layout, ruling method, or quire signature as well as on significant divisions of a book's text. Explicitly chosen and signalled in the captions are production phases that involve shifts in script or decorative hierarchy, personnel, time, or place, evidence of ownership, bookseller codes and marks. In recognition of the range of scholarly activity centered on medieval manuscripts, images in specific categories are also selected: for art history, usually all miniatures in a manuscript are photographed; for musicology, at least one sample of the musical notation is chosen; for book arts, if the book's binding is medieval, it is photographed, as are bindings said to be characteristic of a given library or collector, no matter what the date. On occasion, several leaves in sequence are chosen, so as to provide material for classroom use (e.g. an entire liturgical calendar; an entire poem). Most fragments are photographed in their entirety. All dated manuscripts are documented by photography and specifically flagged in the database, so that a searcher could restrict viewing to these images alone. Medieval documents are included for classroom use in the study of paleography and diplomatics. Imaging Standards File Naming Conventions Image/Metadata Discrepancy Tracking Utility DS Imaging History: Digitization in 1997-1998 Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2008-07-07 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 33786 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/image_contribution/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:21 AM] Berkeley Ruler Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > Berkeley Ruler Berkeley Ruler Images for the project include both a grey scale and also a color bar, as well as a ruler. We anticipate that these tools will assist scholars in interpreting and analysing the images. All scans include a modified version of the Kodak Q-13 colortarget/grayscale, positioned along the right-hand side or the bottom of the image. Our version is cut down to fit into a narrower area, and includes color targets, a grayscale, and a centimeter scale. Gray Scale Summary (PDF 587Kb) Copy of rulers in tif format Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 33794 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/berkeley_ruler.html[5/15/2009 11:24:22 AM] Technical Information Digital Scriptorium Technical Information DS-Access - Tool for managing and contributing DS data (based on Microsoft Access) DS-XML - Tools for contributing DS data via XML Image Contribution - Background and guidelines for contributing DS images Berkeley Ruler - Tool for analysing DS images Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 33783 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:23 AM] About Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-Access > About About DS-Access DS-Access is a data capture utility created to facilitate the contribution of metadata for the Digital Scriptorium online web database project. Based on the Microsoft Access platform, it was originally developed in 1997 at the University of California, Berkeley by John Hassan and Merrilee Proffitt, with content specifications by Consuelo Dutschke. Since that date it has undergone several modifications, although underlying structures remain unchanged. After many small and an occasional large change in its structure and fields, it settled into the tool used through Phase II of the DS project. With Phase III, and the movement of DS to Columbia University, the database underwent an entire reworking from the bottom up. Every table, query, form and report changed in order to make the database more readily updatable in the future (via transparency in naming conventions), less liable to human error in inputting (via automating features), and much stronger in predicting and tracking workflow patterns (those of the inputter; those of the photographer; those of the technical analyst who will merge data from many institutions). The architecture of the database thus remains identical, while its functionalities are completely rebuilt. In addition, the database has been compiled into a runtime version to avoid complications of varying versions of Microsoft Access held by the partner institutions. Dmitri Laury of Columbia's Libraries Digital Programs Division, in consultation with other members of the LDPD team, in particular Terry Catapano (Systems Analyst) and Dave Ortiz (Imaging Specialist), envisioned, planned and executed this fundamental revision of DS-Access. For more information about the newest version DS-Access, see About Version 9. Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 33787 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-access/about.html[5/15/2009 11:24:24 AM] DS-Access Version 9 Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-Access > Version 9 DS-Access Version 9 About Version 9 Database Schema Data Dictionary User Guide Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 30262 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-access/v09/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:25 AM] DS-Access Version 08 Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-Access > Version 8 DS-Access Version 8 About DS-Access Version 8 User Guide Database Schema Data Dictionary Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 37971 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-access/v08/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:26 AM] DS-Access Version 07 Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-Access > Version 7 DS-Access Version 7 About DS-Access Version 7 Database Schema Data Dictionary Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 37972 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-access/v07/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:27 AM] DS-Access: Downloads Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-Access > Downloads DS-Access: Downloads Current Release Previous Releases Current Release Filename: DS-Access.v9.0.1.Runtime Edition: Runtime Version: 9.0.1 Release Type: Update Release Date: 2007-06-30 Release Notes: Online User Guide: Online / PDF Previous Releases Release Release Release Filename Edition Version User Guide Type Date Notes DS-Access.2006-06- Online / Runtime 8.0.0 Full 2006-05-22 Online 01.Runtime.zip PDF Behind The Scenes Home About Behind the Scenes Last published: 2007-12-10 © Columbia University Libraries Page ID: 30263 https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/digital_scriptorium/technical/ds-access/downloads/index.html[5/15/2009 11:24:28 AM] Transcription DTD Digital Scriptorium Technical Information > DS-XML > Transcription DTD Transcription DTD The Bancroft Library, working under the direction of Prof. Charles Faulhaber, undertook sponsorship of a TEI- compliant DTD for the transcription of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, here termed ds3.dtd. At successive moments, Michael Sperberg-McQueen (1998) and David Seaman (2001) devised use of elements and provided documentation. During the year 2002, Sharon K. Goetz (University of California, Berkeley, Department of English)