<oo>→<rep> Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters

Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com) Last modified: 2019-11-17T09:30:39+0000

About the project

The Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters was conceived as an archival repository capable of encoding and preserving in SGML (and, subsequently, XML) format archeographic, paleographic, codicological, textological, and literary-historical data concerning original and translated medieval texts represented in Balkan and other Slavic manuscripts. The files are intended to serve both as documentation (fulfilling the goals of traditional manuscript catalogues) and as direct input for computer-assisted philological research. The present site was designed and implemented by David J. Birnbaum, Andrej Bojadžiev, Anisava Miltenova, and Diljana Radoslavova.

Manuscripts

• Browse the collection
• Search the collection
  • By location, full text of title, etc.
  • Case-insensitive substring search in text title
• Dendrogram overviews of the corpus (complete, Ward’s, and Ward’s with color coding linkage)

Manuscript descriptions from the related Slovo-ASO project can be found at http://aso.obdurodon.org.

Bibliography

Bibliographic references in the manuscript descriptions are maintained in a separate bibliographic database file, which can be browsed or searched. It is under development and does not yet contain all bibliographic references that appear in the full description files. The search field takes one or more complete words (it is not case-sensitive) and returns bibliographic records containing any of those words.

• Browse the bibliography ()
• Search the bibliography (case-insensitive, full words only)
  • Any field
  • Keyword
  • Surname
  • Publication place

For developers

• Summary report about the corpus
• Case-insensitive substring search in full descriptions
• Encoding guidelines and schema files
  • Guidelines to Repertorium Initiative XML model for manuscript descriptions (Andrej Bojadžiev, Scripta & e-Scripta 10–11 (2012): 9–103)
  • Recent additions and changes to encoding policies and guidelines
  • Schema (version 3.2, 2019-11-17): TEI ODD, Relax NG compact syntax, Relax NG XML syntax
  • Schematron: main Schematron file (also used by Zograph project), Repertorium supplement
• Authority files
  • Text titles in Bulgarian, English, and Russian ()
  • Standard English spelling of saints and other hagiographic terms
  • XML table of general and specific genres for use in <msName>
• Data dumps
  • Additions
  • Authors (of texts, pulled from XML files)
  • Authors (of texts, authority file)
  • Authors and editors (modern)
  • Bibliographic pointers
  • Collation
  • Date
  • Dendrograms
  • Identifiers
  • Item titles
  • Layout
  • Participants
  • Scribes
  • Titles (of articles)
  • Watermarks
• Finding errors
  • Inconsistencies or errors in <msName> elements or in <physDesc>
  • Text titles not in master list and files missing text titles
  • Unicode issues: PUA | superscript | PUA and superscript
  • Latin characters in sample texts
• Sample plectogram (Physiologus)
• External resources
  • Codicography and computer, (Geurts, A. J., A. Gruijs, J. van Krieken, and W. R. Veder, Polata knigopisnaia 17–18 (December 1987): 4–29)
  • Cyrillic manuscripts at the British Library: Electronic descriptions and digital collection (authentication required)
  • TEI P5 Guidelines for electronic text encoding and interchange

The Repertorium toolkit

The Repetorium Initiative uses the following tools and resources:

• eXist-db XML database
• <oXygen/> XML editor and IDE
• Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor
• xmlsh command-line shell for XML
• XMLStarlet command-line XML utilities
• PhpStorm web technologies editor and IDE
• Anaconda Python 3 platform
• PyCharm Python editor and IDE
• R project for statistical computing
• RStudio R IDE
• Bukyvede Slavic Cyrillic font from MacCampus (production)
• Quivera broad-spectrum Unicode font (development)
• FontForge font editor
• FontPrep web-font generator
• UnicodeChecker to explore and convert Unicode
• Unicode code converter online utility
• UniView online utility
• Cloudconvert online convert anything utility