Data structures

How Homer Multitext structures its data and why it’s awesome

Object, Text, Artifact Triangle

• all data interlinked with highly specific URNs
• image citation - Iliad 1.1 - 12r of the Venetus A
  • done in simple .csv files
• ceci n’est pas une pipe
  • the image citation of a portion of 12r is not the same as the physical page 12r

CEX tables

• simple tabular files for everything create these relationships
• X text is illustrated by Y image
• X text content corresponds to Y citable text

Using generic tools on technology-independent data

• visualization made possible by URN data structure
• can be easily applied to any project built around URNs
• tools built for URN data, not for the HMT