Joint MEC TEI conference 2023 — This group brings together material shared by the conference attendees.
The conference theme invites us to think about the need to encode different cultural realms — not only written musical and literary cultures, but also oral cultures, the cultures of underrepresented communities, and even cultural practices beyond language and music, such as dance, theater, and film. In coming together to identify and discuss the commonalities and differences between our two coding communities, we aim to discover new methods and new approaches to encoding culture in all its forms.

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  • Presentation slides for "An annotation model for software mentions and citations"  
    In category: encoding challenges, Pointers, Annotation, Overlapping.
    Uploaded by Daniel Jettka on 26 October 2023.

    Authors: Alvares Freire, Fernanda / Ferger, Anne / Henny-Krahmer, Ulrike / Jettka, Daniel

    ABSTRACT

    Appropriate citation of software plays an important role in academic publications to make research results reproducible and reusable. There are several recommendations and guidelines on how to deal with research software (Anzt et al. 2021; Smith et al. 2016; Lamprecht et al. 2020) and how to cite software that is used in the research process (Jackson n.d.; Chue Hong et al. 2019a, 2019b; Druskat 2021a, 2021b).

    To find out if these recommendations (e.g. consistent versioning, persistent identification, appropriate credit to developers) are actually reflected in practice, we examined conference abstracts of the DHd (Henny-Krahmer/Jettka 2022) and ADHO conferences (Jettka et al., to appear). Apparently, there is great potential (and need) for improving the current situation. In our software citation studies, an annotation model was formulated in the form of a TEI taxonomy. Initially, a document-centered approach was pursued, i.e., software mentions were semi-automatically identified and directly annotated with citation information that could be located somewhere else in the document, for instance, in the bibliographies of the abstracts.

    We now propose a revised TEI annotation model, which aims at a more precise annotation to differentiate between pure software mentions (names) and other parts of citation information (such as URLs, developers, or bibliography entries) and linking these parts together. In our new approach, we use pointers () to an externally defined list of software entities and reference these pointers from the annotation instances of corresponding citation information. Thus we still aim at examining the current situation of software citation (this time in articles of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative), but at the same time, we provide and use a model and create a data basis of software mentions and citations which could be used for training of automatic methods to identify software mentions and corresponding citation information in academic texts.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Anzt, Hartwig / Bach, Felix / Druskat, Stephan / Löffler, Frank / Loewe, Axel / Renard, Bernhard Y. / Seemann, Gunnar / Struck, Alexander et al. (2021): “An environment for sustainable research software in Germany and beyond: current state, open challenges, and call for action [version 2; peer review: 2 approved].” In: F1000Research 9:295. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.23224.2.

    Chue Hong, Neil (ed.) (2019a): “Software Citation Checklist for Authors” (Version 0.9.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3479199.

    Chue Hong, Neil (ed.) (2019b): “Software Citation Checklist for Developers” (Version 0.9.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3482769.

    Druskat, Stephan (2021a): “Research software citation for researchers.” Research Software Citation. Cite and Make Citable! (Version 1.1). https://cite.research-software.org/researchers/ [last accessed: 04.11.2022].

    Druskat, Stephan (2021b): “Research software citation for developers.” Research Software Citation. Cite and Make Citable! (Version 1.1). https://cite.research-software.org/developers [last accessed: 04.11.2022].

    Henny-Krahmer, Ulrike / Daniel Jettka (2022): “Softwarezitation als Technik der Wissenschaftskultur. Vom Umgang mit Forschungssoftware in den Digital Humanities.” In: DHd 2022. Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses. Konferenzabstracts, Potsdam, 7.-11.3.2022. Potsdam: Universität Potsdam, 203-206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6328047.

    Jackson, Mike (n. d.): “How to cite and describe software.” In: Software and research: The Software Sustainability Institute’s Blog. https://www.software.ac.uk/how-cite-and-describe-software [last accessed: 04.11.2021].

    Jettka, Daniel / Henny-Krahmer, Ulrike / Ferger, Anne / Alvares Freire, Fernanda (to appear): “Software Citation in the Digital Humanities”. In: DH 2023. Collaboration as Opportunity. Conference abstracts, Graz, 10.-14.7.2023.

    Lamprecht, Anna-Lena / Garcia, Leyla / Kuzak, Mateusz / Martinez, Carlos / Arcila, Ricardo /Del Pico, Eva M. / Dominguez Del Angel, Victoria et al. (2020): “Towards FAIR principles for research software.” In: Data Science 3 (1): 37–59. https://doi.org/10.3233/DS-190026.

    Smith, Arfon M. / Katz, Daniel S. / Niemeyer, Kyle E. / FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group (2016): “Software citation principles.” In: PeerJ Computer Science 2:e86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86.

  • Presentation Slides for "TEI XPointer Schemes - Implementation and Example Application"  
    In category: Pointers, Annotation, Overlapping.
    Uploaded by Christian Lück on 20 September 2023.

    The XPointer framework is one of those W3C notions that is dead today. Same with the TEI XPointer schemes. The cause of dead is manifold and ranges from a lack of implementations to weaknesses of the specification: It is unclear, what a processor is to do with the pointers, that actually only point to a portion of a resource. As a consequence, XPointers have never grown to a paradigmatic field of application, in which they could have proven their value. However, there is such a paradigmatic field of application for the TEI XPointer schemes: the Web-Annotations-like element and its @target attribute. If this element is really meant to "represent[] an annotation following the Web Annotation Data Model", like the TEI reference states, then we need a referencing mechanism, that is compatible with the Web Annotation's selector mechanism, and that at a specification level. The TEI XPointer schemes not only do satisfy this requirement, but are the only specified component of the TEI, that satisfies it. The paper first introduces a full implementation. It then showcases an application in an inquiry on intertextuality using the element: The semantic deferrals in the textual tradition of the book of Ijob, originating from the translations of the Masoretic Text to Septuagint and Targum.