Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA)

2015年5月至2016年4月，惠顿学院(马萨诸塞州)雷根斯堡大学将聚集经济历史学家、学术编辑和技术专家，讨论和测试新出现的账簿语义标记方法。项目主任希望，拟议的活动将标志着一项长期合作的开始，这种合作将至少延续到未来五年。为启动侧重于建模语义丰富的账户数字版(MEDEA)的双边项目拟议的主要活动包括三个阶段：-在2015年初夏在雷根斯堡大学举行的会议上，项目主任将展示他们一直在探索的账户语义标记模型，供受邀专家讨论、批评和建议。-在这次会议之后，与会者将产生可用作进一步测试和开发会计记录转录、标记和分析最佳实践的模型的范例。-在2016年3月在惠顿学院举行的第二次会议上，校长将介绍测试的结果，并就下一步扩大使用这些模型进行历史财务记录的实践社区的问题与聚集的专家进行磋商。考虑到为产生丰富语义的数字版本账户制定广泛标准的潜力，项目主任计划了这一系列活动，以在过程早期引入务实的关注，以避免引入可能仅由理论讨论产生的问题。将选择在第二阶段活动期间编制的实例，以显示一般账户类别所包括的广泛文件，并开始表明在这些来源中可以找到的信息的广度和深度。历史记录的很大一部分尚未建立具有成本效益的数字化模式，大多数人类社会已经编制了各种财务记录。长期以来，账簿一直被用作经济和社会史的主要来源，因为它们允许学者在宏观和微观结构层面上探索经济行为的发展。从账簿中获得的信息可以帮助回答有关财富分配和穷人在当地、区域和全球社区中的作用等问题。账簿还提供最细粒度的数据，因为它们往往是关于具有重要历史意义的个人和活动(如工匠及其工作)的历史信息的唯一来源。因此，美狄亚S项目的更大目标是为编制语义丰富的账户数字版制定广泛的标准，这一更大的目标有可能改变许多领域的人文学术。

Between May 2015 and April 2016, Wheaton College (Mass.) and the University of Regensburg will bring together economic historians, scholarly editors, and technical experts to discuss and test emerging methods for semantic markup of account books. The project directors hope that the proposed activities will mark the beginning of a long term collaboration that will extend for at least the next five years. The main activities proposed for initiating the bilateral project focused on Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts (MEDEA) include three stages:- At a meeting to be held at the University of Regensburg in early summer 2015, the Project Directors will present the models of semantic markup of accounts that they have been exploring for discussion, critique, and suggestions from the invited experts.- After this meeting, participants will produce examples that may be used as models for further testing and development of best practices for transcription, markup, and analysis of accounting records.- At a second meeting, to be held at Wheaton College in March 2016, principals will present the results of this testing and consult with the assembled experts regarding next steps for expanding the communities of practice employing these models for historical financial records.Looking to the potential of developing broad standards for producing semantically enriched digital editions of accounts, the Project Directors have planned this series of activities to introduce pragmatic concerns early in the process so as to avoid introducing problems that might result from solely theoretical discussions. The examples to be produced during the second stage of activities will be chosen to demonstrate the wide range of documents that are included in the general category of accounts and to begin to suggest the breadth and depth of information to be found in such sources.A significant portion of the historical record for which cost-effective digitization models have yet to be developed, financial records of various sorts have been produced by most human communities. Account books have long been used as primary sources for economic and social history since they allow scholars to explore the development of economic behavior on both a macro- and microstructural level. Information derived from account books can help to answer questions about such matters as the distribution of wealth and the role of ¿the poor¿ in local, regional, and global communities. Account books also supply data at the most granular level, as they are often the only sources available for historical information about such historically significant individuals and activities as artisans and their work. Thus, the MEDEA project¿s larger goals of contributing to the development of broad standards for producing semantically enriched digital editions of accounts have the potential to transform humanities scholarship in a significant range of fields.