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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Tony<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I thought the TEI might have done something about this,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>so typed <i>Text encoding initiative comics</i> into Google:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This produced 5,170 results, of which <b>hit no 1 was</b>:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/Digitaltext/index.htm">http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/Digitaltext/index.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
font-weight:normal'>London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2010-11 </span></strong><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=style47><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal'>13 January
2011; room tba </span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
<br>
</span></b><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Ernesto
Priego: 'Comic Book Markup Language: Challenges and Opportunities'</span></strong><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=style481><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Abstract</span></strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>.<b> </b>This seminar will introduce and discuss CBML,
a TEI-based XML vocabulary for encoding comics, comic books and graphic novels
that has been developed by John Walsh and Michelle Dalmau (Indiana University,
2002-2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=style481><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>CBML provides standard
extensions to the encoding metalanguage developed by the Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI). It uses TEI to build an XML vocabulary for encoding metadata
and content present in some comic books, particularly American serialised
single-issue comic books. CBML offers a system for encoding important aspects
of comics, such as panels, speech and thought balloons, narrative captions,
sound effects, advertisements, credits, letter columns, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=style481><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>In this seminar I will argue
that comics as a communicative language has historically expressed itself
through a kind of unique materiality – complex and intertwined processes
involved in the creation of comics and their place-specific interaction with
the reader – that has often varied from culture to culture. The seminar
will explore how this materiality differs from that of other media and how it
produces and is simultaneously the consequence of particular 'textual
topologies'. Hence, I argue, comics are partially untranslatable to digital and
other media. The materiality of comics helps us to interrogate the idea that
such translation can be done without significant loss or without making the
work into something else. I will argue that XML alone is insufficient, that
comic book digitization and text encoding need to take into account the
non-digitisable aspects of comic book publications, in other words,
spatio-temporal textual dimensions that cannot be fully represented on a
computer screen or interface.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=style481><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Bio. </span></strong><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ernesto Priego wrote his PhD thesis about the
materiality of comic books electronic comics publishing and digital media (UCL,
2010). His master's thesis dealt with traumatic structure in graphic narrative
in Art Spiegelman's <em>Maus</em> (UEA Norwich, 2003); his BA thesis explored
how narratological tools could be used in the analysis of <em>Watchmen</em>
(UNAM, 2001). He has been doing comics scholarship for at least 15 years. He
writes about graphic narrative for the Nieman Storyboard of Harvard University
and other publications. Ernesto is a HASTAC Scholar for 2010-2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Hit no 2 was:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jawalsh/cv/index.html">http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jawalsh/cv/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The CV included the publication<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Walsh, John A. "XML and Comics: Comic Book Markup
Language (CBML)." Comic Arts Conference / Comic-Con International. San
Diego Convention Center, San Diego. 17-20 July 2003.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>And I found his site dedicated to CBML at<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.cbml.org/technical.html">http://www.cbml.org/technical.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Ramesh
Krishnamurthy<br>
Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences,<br>
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK<br>
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ; Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766 [Room NX08, 10th<br>
Floor, North Wing of Main Building]<br>
<a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/"><span
style='color:blue'>http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/</span></a><br>
Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): <a
href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/"><span style='color:blue'>http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Message: 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:22:06 -0200<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>From: Tony Berber Sardinha <<a
href="mailto:tony@corpuslg.org">tony@corpuslg.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [Corpora-List] Annotating a corpus of comic book
stories<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>To: CORPORA <<a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no">corpora@uib.no</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Dear all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I'm looking for ways to annotate the visual elements in a
corpus of comic book stories, so that for each frame in a story, features such
as colors, shapes, position of characters, and so on receive a proper tag. Are
there any tagsets for that? Any ideas or references are much appreciated. Thank
you ahead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>bye<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>tony<o:p></o:p></p>
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