Towards method of transcription of early printed books in XML and its application to the study of the printing history

• Project/Area Number: 20700225
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: AGATA mari (AGATA Mari) 慶應義塾大学, 文学部, 准教授 (70433729)
• Project Period (FY): 2008-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥6,519,384 (Direct Cost: ¥5,014,912、Indirect Cost: ¥1,504,472); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥701,067 (Direct Cost: ¥539,283、Indirect Cost: ¥161,784); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥777,873 (Direct Cost: ¥598,364、Indirect Cost: ¥179,509); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,010,444 (Direct Cost: ¥777,265、Indirect Cost: ¥233,179); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 書誌学 / 印刷史 / トランスクリプション / グーテンベルク聖書 / 初期刊本 / デジタル画像 / 活版印刷

Outline of Final Research Achievements

An efficient and precise method of identifying individual type of the early printed books was developed, which is indispensable in making transcription of early printed books, since ordinary OCR software cannot deal with them. The proposed method is expected to enable to make transcription data of the early printed books on large scale.
The proposed method was applied to the digital images of the first printed book in Europe, the Gutenberg Bible. Cluster analysis of the type images were conducted in order to shed some light objectively on the early metods of making types. Furthremore, Based on the result of the type image recognition, transcription data was also made, and then described in XML format.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 初期刊本の活字の識別とその応用：グーテンベルク聖書の活字のクラスタリング (2014)
  • Author(s): 安形輝、安形麻理
  • Journal Title: 第62回日本図書館情報学会研究大会発表論文集 Volume: 第62回 Pages: 117-120
  • NAID: 40020509397
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] デジタル技術を応用した初期印刷本の印刷工程の解明 (2014)
  • Author(s): 安形麻理
  • Organizer: 国際アーサー王学会日本支部2014年度年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都・龍谷大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-12-13
• [Presentation] 活字の識別とその応用：グーテンベルク聖書の活字のクラスタリング (2014)
  • Author(s): 安形輝、安形麻理
  • Organizer: 日本図書館情報学会2014年度研究大会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪・梅花女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-29
• [Presentation] ヨーロッパ初期印刷本研究とデジタル化の技法：グーテンベルク聖書の画像を用いた校合とXMLによるコーディング (2012)
  • Author(s): 安形麻理
  • Organizer: 日本オリエント学会第54回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東海大学湘南キャンパス
• [Presentation] Toward a New Method of Collation with the Aid of Digital Images (2010)
  • Author(s): Mari Agata
  • Organizer: The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
  • Place of Presentation: ヴェネツィア大学(イタリア)
  • Year and Date: 2010-04-08
• [Book] Scribes, Printers, and the Accidentals of Their Texts (共著) (2011)
  • Author(s): Jacob Thaisen(編)
  • Publisher: Peter Lang(査読付き論文集)
• [Book] デジタル書物学事始め:グーテンベルク聖書とその周辺 (2010)
  • Author(s): 安形麻理
  • Total Pages: 211
  • Publisher: 勉誠出版