[Athen] alt text for scanned images of book pages

[Debbie Krahmer]

Hi Melissa,

I don't know if you ever received any responses, but one thing that came to
mind was a project being done (years and years ago) at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, where they were converting handwritten manuscripts of
poems to machine-readable text, including all the edits and erasures and
marginalia and stuff. Brian Pytlik Zillig
<https://cdrh.unl.edu/about/faculty/pytlik_zillig> was heavily involved in
it, so he might be able to talk about a good way of representing margalia
in a machine-readable format? (it's a long shot, but I thought it might
help.)

Thanks,
D.
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Debbie Krahmer
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Associate Professor in the Libraries
Accessible Technology & Government Documents Librarian
304 Case-Geyer
Colgate University
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dkrahmer at colgate.edu


On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:11 AM Green, Melissa <mfgreen1 at ua.edu> wrote:


> Happy Friday, ATHENites! ATHENians?

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>

>

> A campus partner has reached out to us with an alt text question, and we’d

> like to hear your thoughts. They host a digital humanities project, Mill

> Marginalia <https://millmarginalia.org/>, that centers around scanned

> images of book pages that serve to document notes taken in the margins.

> Here’s an example: Institutionum Logicarum Libri Duo, Burgersdicius Franco

> <https://millmarginalia.org/library/FB-IL-1/1978>

>

>

>

> How would you approach handling alternative text for such images? Do you

> think the function of the visual is described within the context or

> surroundings of the image itself? Are you aware of accessible approaches to

> similar projects that we might share?

>

>

>

> Thanks so much, and happy Friday!

>

>

>

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