Boccaccio's <span style="font-style : italic ; ">Decameron</span>
| STG lead(s): | Giovanna Roz, Elli Mylonas |
STG has developed a DTD based on TEI-Lite for the SGML encoding of the Decameron text. STG staff encoded portions of the text and supervised further work by graduate students in the Italian Studies Department. Dynaweb 4.1 was used to deliver the SGML encoded text from the STG web server.
The structural encoding embodied in SGML permits searching on selected structural units, such as whole text, frame, novelle. All named characters and geographic locations in the text are tagged and can be retrieved through an advanced search procedure. This search procedure refers to an index that specifies attributes relevant for scholarly research and teaching, such as gender, occupation, and social role of each named character.
STG's involvement with the Decameron Web is ongoing and will be instrumental in the development of further functionality, including the use of metadata to classify secondary sources and the automation of linking between the text and resource materials.
The Decameron Web project was started in the academic year 1994-1995 at the Italian Studies Department. It is a teaching tool presenting the text of Boccaccio's Decameron and a growing corpus of secondary material about the author and medieval Italy. The Decameron consists of a hundred stories in Italian, told from the point of view of ten young Florentines who, in the early summer of the year 1348, have taken refuge in the countryside to escape the plague.
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): | |
| Massimo Riva, Mike Papio, Michael Hemment Italian Studies, Brown University |
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| Research domains: | full-text retrieval; humanities computing; metadata |
| Type: | project |
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| The Decameron Web Home Page | http://www.brown.edu/Research/Decameron/ |
| STG involvement initiated: | September 1997 | Status: | hosting | |
| STG consulting completed: | 2000 | Funding support: | National Endowment for the Humanities Computing and Information Services |
| Contact: | STG_info@brown.edu |
Record last modified: 13-Sep-2005