Re: VMs: Voynich images and wiki

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Seth,

At 14:46 02/06/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> I just wanted to pass along a note that a friend with a co-located
> web server has allowed me to mirror the Voynich images, including
> uncompressed TIFF versions of all the SID files.  It will work out
> to something like 9GB of data.

Excellent - but don't forget to put links back to the original data & give 
ample thanks to the Beinecke, acknowledge ownership, etc. :-)

> I am in the process of finishing the download of all 209 SIDs now,
> and will convert them to TIFF tonight or tomorrow.  The thumbnails
> are already done.  I am also setting up a wiki, I like the idea of
> creating one wiki page for each folio.  Ideally each wiki page will
> have a thumbnail of the associated VMs folio, links to the 4x and 8x
> JPEGs, a link to a SID version, a link to the TIF version, and a link
> to a transcription.  Each page will then allow all of us to annotate.

This is a great idea... but...

> I'll post the address as soon as the Wiki software is set up.

As before, I'd *strongly* recommend not rolling your own but instead making 
use of the (both excellent and industrial strength) MediaWiki engine (which 
runs Wikipedia, Wikiquotes, Wikibooks, etc). I put a basic Voynich 
framework in place there a while back, and this is now ripe for expansion 
(to the nth degree!)
        http://wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Voynich_Manuscript

Don't forget that it would be a good idea to include some (or all) of:-
(a) all the per-VMs-page comments from the interlinear text file;
(b) thumbnail links to images of the same page; and (in a perfect world)
(c) links to related threads from the (on-line) mailing list archive; and 
finally
(d) an editable transcription too - possibly the best place for group 
transcription work

That's before you start adding in new comments... I wouldn't be surprised 
if some contentious Wiki pages (like, umm, the "Pisces" page) might end up 
almost being the size of paperback books - there's a lot of ground to 
cover. :-o

Really, perhaps the best lazy programmer idea might be to write a script 
that splits up (and Wikifies!) the latest interlinear into page-size 
chunks, grabbing a single transcription as it goes (but whose transcription 
would that be?) :-o

Lots to think about... plenty to do, too! :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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