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LouBurnard: New page: Category:Tools Category:Development tools Category:Editing tools Category:Conversion and preprocessing tools == Synopsis == Abbot coordinates two phases of text preparati...

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New page: Category:Tools Category:Development tools Category:Editing tools Category:Conversion and preprocessing tools == Synopsis == Abbot coordinates two phases of text preparati...

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[[Category:Tools]]

[[Category:Development tools]]
[[Category:Editing tools]]
[[Category:Conversion and preprocessing tools]]

== Synopsis ==
Abbot coordinates two phases of text preparation:

1. Normalization of XML-like text collections into TEI-A -- an XML
format designed to facilitate corpus-based text analysis.

2. Validation of the converted files.

== Features ==

The first phase of the conversion reads the DTD/Schema of the target
collection and uses the information found within to generate a
customized stylesheet that can affect the conversion from the target to
TEI-A. This method, which we call "schema harvesting," is remarkably
robust, but it cannot perform miracles. If your texts do not parse or
contain a lot of irregular constructions, you will probably need to do
some pre-processing prior to the pre-processing with Abbot.

Abbot is set up as a pipeline (with abbot.sh as the main controlling
file). If you look in that file, you'll references to a series of
modular shell scripts, most of which perform quick corrections on the
converted files. We used Abbot to convert some very large, and very
well known text collections, and so these scripts contain adjustments
for common errors and irregularities (including some that are
unavoidably introduced through schema harvesting). You may find it
useful to use these scripts as a guide, adding to the pipeline and
adjusting the existing scripts for your own circumstances.

The second phase pass involves validation of converted files against the
TEI-A schema using Sun's Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV). The TEI-A
schema itself is located here: http://segonku.unl.edu/teianalytics/.
Documentation for the schema is located at
http://segonku.unl.edu/teianalytics/TEIAnalytics_doc.html.

Running abbot is simply a matter of:

abbot.sh [target_dir]

Abbot will write the results to the "output" directory. Invalid files
are sent to the "quarantine" directory for review.

Please note that abbot is self contained and ships with all the
necessary libraries. You should run it from the abbot directory and
leave everything as it is.

== User commentary ==
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== System requirements ==
(type in that information here)

== Source code and licensing ==

http://monkproject.org/license.html

== Support for TEI ==
(Does it support TEI or TEI Lite "out of the box"?)
(How easily can TEI be implemented?)
(Are there customized versions of the tool created for the TEI community, perhaps even by those not affiliated with the tool's creators?)

== Language(s) ==

All of the code for Abbot is written using a combination of (bash)
shell, Java, and XSLT. It was designed to run on UNIX-like systems and
avails itself of a number of standard UNIX utilities (such as those
found in the GNU coreutils package).

We would hesitate to run it using a version of Java lower than 1.5. We
would also hesitate to run it on a system that did not have a fast
processor and at least 8 gigs of RAM. Some text collections can take
many hours to convert even with the latest server hardware. Your
mileage may vary. A lot.

== Documentation ==

http://monkproject.org/downloads/abbot/

== Tech support ==

== User community ==

Brian Pytlik-Zillig -- bpytlikz@unlnotes.unl.edu
Stephen Ramsay -- sramsay.unl@gmail.com
Martin Mueller -- martinmueller@northwestern.edu

== Sample implementations ==
(links to demo sites running the tool or successful implementations of it)

== Current version number and date of release ==
(type in that information here)

== History of versions ==
(type in that information here)

== How to download or buy ==

http://monkproject.org/downloads/

== Additional notes ==
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 Abbot coordinates two phases of text preparation:
-. Normalization of XML-like text collections into TEI-A -- an XML
+. Normalization of XML-like text collections into [[TEI-A]], an XML
 format designed to facilitate corpus-based text analysis.
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 The second phase pass involves validation of converted files against the
-TEI-A schema using Sun's Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV).  The TEI-A
+TEI-A schema using Sun's Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV).
 Running abbot is simply a matter of:

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 == User community ==
-Brian Pytlik-Zillig  -- bpytlikz@unlnotes.unl.edu
+* Brian Pytlik-Zillig  -- bpytlikz@unlnotes.unl.edu
-Stephen Ramsay -- sramsay.unl@gmail.com
+* Stephen Ramsay -- sramsay.unl@gmail.com
-Martin Mueller -- martinmueller@northwestern.edu
+* Martin Mueller -- martinmueller@northwestern.edu
 == Sample implementations ==

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Kshawkin: link to TEI-A, removed dead links, copyedited

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