Re: VMs: dB request: was: transcriptions and shorthand notes

["GC" <gc-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Matt,

I'm glad someone is willing.  What I'm suggesting is to call up the .jpg
image in a paint program, select the line in the folio with a selection
tool, and save that line as a new image with the line name matching the
interlinear identification.  The image database would consist of thousands
of line images, with some major rework of the circular lines in some of the
astronomical and astrological drawings.  If you've looked at my pdf
transcription files, where I juxtapose the VMS line with the transcription,
you'll get the idea.

The point of this is that one may access the lines through databases in EVA,
VGBT, Courier, etc. and immediately compare glyphs or words visually in
their natural surroundings.  What I've been trying to get across is that the
VMS script is a combination of base symbols, "marked up" with shorthand
markings.  You're really not going to see that until you compare symbol for
symbol, and this is the easiest way I can come up with the make this happen.

GC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "matt welnicki" <welnicki@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: dB request: was: transcriptions and shorthand notes


> GC,
>
> Also not having the technical skills of someone like
> Nick to do what you suggest, but interested in your
> ideas, I would be willing to contribute some time to
> the laborious "clipping" or other task (so long as it
> is simple enough fro me to understand :)).
> Matt
>
> > I certainly wouldn't be able to complete such a
> > database of images in short
> > order, and the only one I know that has the skills to
> > make something like
> > this manageable on the web is Nick (not dissing anyone
> > else, it's just that
> > individual skills are not something usually discussed
> > on the list, so in my
> > long absence I'm unaware if any new members are as
> > willing or capable).
> > Size of the database would have to be estimated to
> > determine whether I can
> > host it on my present site, or purchase a devoted site
> > for the purpose.
> > Bandwidth per search needs to be estimated to
> determine
> > the requirements of
> > such a site, which I think we'll use quite heavily.
> >
> > Most importantly, a few devotees would be necessary to
> > tediously clip and
> > index the images of each line accordingly.  A few
> pages
> > per person would
> > suffice, maybe?  The transcription dB's are easy to
> set
> > up, and the graphic
> > glyph interface is not that difficult.    Rather than
> > having to know the
> > transcription alphabet of EVA or VGBT, all one would
> > have to do is click on
> > a picture of "8" + "a" + "m", and the three glyph
> > assignments are copied to
> > a box that calls up all lines containing "8am" in my
> > transcription, or
> > "daiin" in EVA transcription, depending on the user's
> > initial transcription
> > selection.  Currier, D'Imperio, Frogguy, and other
> > transcriptions should be
> > added as linked database choices, so visual continuity
> > between all
> > historical transcription methods is maintained.  Such
> a
> > presentation would
> > end my sustainedv opposition to EVA, and IMHO would go
> > a long way in
> > increasing the learning curve.
> >
> > Yes Nick, I know we discussed this 1 1/2 years ago,
> but
> > those discussions
> > were nothing more than teenage chat, enduring the long
> > progress into
> > adulthood.  The painful wait that all adolescents
> > endure is over, the color
> > images marking the lively progression that all good
> > ideas follow.  If there
> > was ever a right time for this idea to blossom, that
> is
> > now.
> >
> > GC
> >
> >
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