[Corpora-List] Annotating a corpus of comic book stories

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi Tony

I thought the TEI might have done something about this,
so typed Text encoding initiative comics into Google:

This produced 5,170 results, of which hit no 1 was:
http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/seminars/Digitaltext/index.htm

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2010-11

13 January 2011; room tba

Ernesto Priego: 'Comic Book Markup Language: Challenges and Opportunities'

Abstract. 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).

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.

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.

Bio. 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 Maus (UEA Norwich, 2003); his BA thesis explored how narratological tools could be used in the analysis of Watchmen (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
Hit no 2 was:
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jawalsh/cv/index.html
The CV included the publication
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.
And I found his site dedicated to CBML at
http://www.cbml.org/technical.html

Hope this helps.
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences,
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ; Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766 [Room NX08, 10th
Floor, North Wing of Main Building]
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/
Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:22:06 -0200

From: Tony Berber Sardinha <tony at corpuslg.org<mailto:tony at corpuslg.org>>

Subject: [Corpora-List] Annotating a corpus of comic book stories

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Dear all



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.



bye



tony

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