CC and I met to plan the next couple of weeks of work. These are some of the decisions:

Transcription

• At the base level, transcription of text on the images should be diplomatic. At present it is a mixture, with some regularizations; these should be undone, then re-done methodically (see below).
• Superscript and smallcaps need to be included, using <hi> elements, and then reproduced in the rendering.
• Typographical features should be regularized using a <choice> element, containing <orig> and <reg>. Three features to which this will apply are:
  • long s
  • u which is typographically identical to v
  • tilde used to indicate an abbreviation (typically of a word suffix)
• These <choice> elements should be applied at the word level, so that searching can more easily handle variants.
• A modernized version of the text should also be created. This would be in a separate category, but both would be (in the coming TEI version) linked through @facs, as opposed to @corresp. (A new version of the IMT will handle this, in a month or two. In the meantime, category ids will be sufficient anyway.) The modernized transcription would be keyed to the original using identifying attributes (probably @n).

Object markup

We began working on a plan for formalizing, focusing and regularizing the markup of objects, creatures, weapons etc. in the images:

• Make sure gestures are moved from the Objets to the Gestes category. Where a gesture incorporates an object, use two annotations.
• A new category is needed for Créatures.
• The title of an annotation must include, unambiguously, the identifier we're using for that species of object.
• Where the object is used as a weapon (a common feature), it should be titled like this: "Baton comme arme".
• The following items are already of special interest, and must be marked up wherever they appear:
  • corne
  • crochet (link to corne; symbolic)
  • clé
  • balai
  • chaise (especially as weapon)
  • verre
  • pichet
  • bourse
  • argent
  • pot
  • seau
  • croix
  • marque (badge -- see for example Invention)
  • chapeau
  Other items of interest will certainly emerge; the key is consistency in marking (especially titling) particular items.

We'll work next week in production-line mode: I'll add and regularize object markup, while CC proofs, corrects and diplomatizes transcription (and probably expands on my object markup by adding some content to the annotation texts).