27-04-2022, 08:07 PM
(26-04-2022, 03:29 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have also noticed that there are errors in the standard EVA transcription that we all depend on, likely because that was originally based on lower-resolution images. I am beginning a very long-term project of proof-reading the transcription to make corrections and to resolve many of the uncertain readings. Might take as long as a year, but I think it will be well worth the effort. I have made ten corrections on f. 1r alone, so I suspect there will be well over a thousand changes to be made, which may very well impact computational and linguistic analyses.
Let me add my kudos to Koen's. If there had been more room, I'm sure the Sermon on the Mount would have included "Blessed are the transcribers, for they shall be shown the solution."
You probably have more and better tools for comparing different transcriptions, but if you don't I have Unix scripts/code for doing it. If (and it's a big if) the places you're seeing errors turn out to be a subset of the places where v101 and LZ disagree, that could save you an enormous amount of time.
For the running text part (maybe not labels or things like the Zodiac folios, depending on how much work Rene has put into massaging the v101 transcription), it's a fairly quick process to generate the comparison. As an example of the output, here are the first few lines of f1r:
Top: fachys/y,kal/ar/otaiin/shol/shory/ ~ses/y/kor/sholdy -
Bot: fachys/y kal/ar/ataiin/shol/shory/cthres/y/kor/sholdy*-
Mrg: fachys/y.kal/ar/+taiin/shol/shory/++++es/y/kor/sholdy*-
Top: sory/ckhar/or,y/kaer/chtaiin/shar/ois/cthar/cthar/dan-
Bot: sory/ckhar/or,y/kair/chtaiin/shar/ase/cthar/cthar,dan-
Mrg: sory/ckhar/or,y/ka+r/chtaiin/shar/+++/cthar/cthar_dan-
Top: syaiir/sheky/or/ykaiin/shod/ctho,ary/cthes/dar,aiin/sy-
Bot: syaiir/sheky/or/ykaiin/shod/ctho ary/cthes/dar aiin/sy-
Mrg: syaiir/sheky/or/ykaiin/shod/ctho.ary/cthes/dar.aiin/sy-
[...]
In this case, "Top" is v101 converted to EVA via Currier; "Bot" is LZ converted to Currier (Basic EVA only, first of multiple readings chosen) and back to EVA. "Mrg" is the min edit distance combination of the two -- '*' is something written off as an untranscribeable "weirdo" in the underlying transcription, '~' is something with no Currier equivalent in the underlying transcription, '+' is a glyph disagreement/insertion/deletion, and there are characters corresponding to different combinations of how the two transcriptions see spaces in a given location. I have script tools to pull out the merged transcription and add folio/line number references back in.
If this would be useful, I would be happy to create the merged version of the running text lines and sent it to you.