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| Voynich Manuscript RESTful API |
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Posted by: Robin - 27-09-2016, 04:12 PM - Forum: News
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Hi everyone,
[font=arial, sans-serif]I have been working on a project for the Voynich Manuscript based on the well-known 'interlinear' file. I have built a RESTful API on top of the interlinear and am presenting it here: [/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Essentially it is an online, public version of the Voynich Transcription Tool that gets mentioned from time to time. There is documentation for how to use the API plus a set of examples showing what sort of applications can be built on top of API queries. I've implemented some classic examples e.g. word length distribution and Sukhotin's vowel identification algorithm. I don't think these examples are of great value, but they are interesting in terms of showing a transparent methodology with clear data-set and a repeatable methodology (i.e. source code available).[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]An example API query could be:[/font]
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[font=arial, sans-serif]Which would translate as 'fetch me page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Takahashi transcription, without interlinear comments with columns for pageId, currierHand, illustrationType, unitCode, lineNumber and using a morpheme groupings of cfh, ckh, cph, cth, eee, iii, ch, ee, ii, qo, sh'.[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif][font=tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif]There are two main methods (routes) - 'tokens' and 'morphemes'. 'Tokens' gets the effectively raw transcription from the interlinear and 'morphemes' does the same things but applies a grouping algorithm that identifies e.g. 'qo', 'sh' and 'eee' etc. The morpheme groups are user configurable. I took some feedback on this (thanks, Nick Pelling) and decided that it is an open question as to whether we should see 'qo' as a single morpheme, or actually see 'qot' and 'qok' separately from 'qo' etc. There are many similar questions in this topic of word morphology that would be better served, in my opinion, by clearer data.[/font][/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]My intention in sharing this is to enable transparency, repeat-ability and share-ability of experiments that people conduct on the text. [/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Regards,[/font]
[font=arial, sans-serif]Robin[/font]
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| Dimensions and trimming of the MS |
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Posted by: ReneZ - 27-09-2016, 09:31 AM - Forum: Physical material
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Quote: I have it on Rene's authority that the dimensions of the Vms are as made; that there's no sign of later trimming.
This must have been long ago, as I can't actually remember this, but the point is sufficiently interesting to start a dedicated topic.
Manuscripts are occasionally trimmed when rebound, but any significant trimming of the Voynich MS can be excluded, because of the foldouts. These would have been cut.
One can also see that the edges are irregular, and pages are of somewhat different sizes.
On the other hard, there are numerous cases where at least the bottom edge of a page has been partially trimmed.
I believe that onYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the drawing at the bottom was clipped.
Here, one also sees a feature in the scan that was mentioned years ago, by Dana Scott, namely that some edges of the parchment are much lighter in colour. In this case, this seems to indicate a more recent cut. We don't know when it was done, of course.
With respect to the dimensions of the Voynich MS, in 2010 I did the exercise of comparing it with various known herbal manuscripts. I put it next to 22 other MSs in a powerpoint file, all at the scale 1:10.
I include the figure here:
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The legend is:
A = Med.Gr.1, ONB, Vienna
B = Voss.Lat. Q.9, Leiden
C = Graecus 1, Napoli
D = MS Grec 2179, BN Paris
E = MS Plut. 73.41, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
F = CLM 337, Munich
G = Ms M 652, Pierpont Morgan library
H = MS Bodley 130
J = MS Harley 1585
K = Cod. Vind. 93, ONB, Vienna
L = MS or. Arabe 4947, BN Paris
M = MS Plut. 73.16, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
N = Egerton 747
O = MS Lat. 6823, BN Paris
P = Ms.Canon Misc.408, Bodleian, Oxford
Q = MS 459, Bibl. Casanatense, Roma
R = MS Aldini 211, Pavia
S = Egerton 2020
T = Chigi F. VII 159, BA Vaticana
U = MS 106, Bibl. Dip. Di Botanica dell'Universita, Florence
V = MS Lat 17844, BN Paris
W = MS Hebr. 1199, BN Paris
Z = Voynich MS.
While the Voynich MS is relatively small, there are still smaller MSs.
Also, MSs "R" and "U" are almost exactly the same size as the Voynich MS, and both are 'alchemical herbals'.
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