If you were going to annotate a scan of foreign language document, how would you mark the associated Notes? Let’s take an extreme example… assume that we have a family adoption record on a cuneiform clay tablet from the British Museum ¹. This image will have a series of Notes attached: a transcript…

Strictly speaking, a translation could be considered a separate source document. In this case, at least, it is the work of a different author at a different time. And different people might very well translate it differently. Transcription, on the other hand, is more objective – although in the cas…

[image] GeorgeWilmes: But even with separate sources, you still have the issue of how to relate them. I probably wouldn’t use the IDs to do that. I’ve tried to normalize my source titles so for this I would probably use something like that: 1st source: Adoption of a boy, Sin-sharrum by A’-r…

[image] emyoulation: Is there a way to associate Notes that are direct Translations of one another? i.e., the language codes might be Akkadian = akk, British dialect English = en-GB, and German = de. Should the language code be embedded by using the same Note ID with language suffixes? The Ge…

[image] emyoulation: Is there a way to associate Notes that are direct Translations of one another? A set ?

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