Comments on: Sandall Update http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/01/09/sandall-update/ Failing better at understanding the past Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:40:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Gavin Robinson http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/01/09/sandall-update/#comment-12971 Gavin Robinson Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:38:48 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/01/09/sandall-update/#comment-12971 I've seen at least one WWI unit history on Project Gutenberg, but their text encoding isn't as rich as what I'm doing with TEI. It seems to me that they put more effort than is necessary into creating digital texts which aren't as good as they could be. <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/ebooks/index.htm" rel="nofollow">John Bourne</a> at the Centre for First World War Studies at Birmingham is working on digital editions of out of print books but I don't think they're finished yet. I’ve seen at least one WWI unit history on Project Gutenberg, but their text encoding isn’t as rich as what I’m doing with TEI. It seems to me that they put more effort than is necessary into creating digital texts which aren’t as good as they could be.

John Bourne at the Centre for First World War Studies at Birmingham is working on digital editions of out of print books but I don’t think they’re finished yet.

]]> By: Gary Smailes http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/01/09/sandall-update/#comment-12968 Gary Smailes Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:03:38 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2008/01/09/sandall-update/#comment-12968 This is great work. Do you know if this kind of thing has been done before for others histories? This is great work. Do you know if this kind of thing has been done before for others histories?

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