Presentation (PDF) - Digital Classicist

The Lexicon of
Greek Personal
Names and
classical web
services
Elaine
Matthews and
Sebastian
Rahtz
Data interchange
The Lexicon has defined five levels of data interchange:
1. Character interchange ASCII text version of data separately
from the binary format used by any database
system. This was the minimal form of interchange
supported in the initial stages of the project.
2. Character encoding The Lexicon defined its own
transliteration for Greek, independly of e.g. TLG
betacode, and continues to use it for internal
purposes. Converted to Unicode UTF-8 for
interchange.
3. Standardized structural markup Data relationships follow the
schema defined in 1983. We have reimplemented
this hierarchical and network structure using XML
records to represent the relationships.
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