Another blog about the state of the Villani project.
First of all, remember that the completed book 13 is on the server. If anyone has any comments or suggestions on our encoding we’d be overjoyed to hear them!
In particular, we would be interested in comments on our method of encoding persons–we decided to use the “person” category to embrace individual personages, peoples (fiorentini, etc), families (ubertini, etc), and officers (priori, etc). You might also note the “pb” category–this category embraces all manner of places (cities, regions, etc) and human constructions (palaces, bridges, etc).
In the meantime we’ve been looking back over our completed encoding of book 13 and thinking about the various textual categories to annotate.
I am mainly interested in the pedagogical uses of the text and so I have begun to annotate those categories which I think will be most useful for teaching–persons, to begin with, and then places/things.
Finally I wanted to let everyone know that the Center for Teaching Excellence at my university is sponsoring a series of talks on the use of technology in teaching. The organizer would like to have a panel on the VHL. Anyone interesting in participating?