Tuesday, October 2
Guest speaker : Dr. Diane Jakacki
What is XML TEI and why do we do this to texts?
- Look at examples of TEI-based digital editions and archives
- Bentham Project http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
- Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html
- Digital Thoreau http://www.digitalthoreau.org/
Click on text in either pane to see changes between versions. http://digitalthoreau.org/walden/fluid/text/01.html - Women Writers Project http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/
Presents full-text works of pre-Victorian women writers – outside of traditional canon
http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu.ezproxy.bucknell.edu/
Searchable by author, date, title, genre http://wwo.wwp.northeastern.edu.ezproxy.bucknell.edu/WWO/search?browse-all=yes;brand=wwo#!/view/adams.jews.xml - Auchinleck Manuscript http://auchinleck.nls.uk/index.html
Very early digital project – work completed in 2004. Medieval (the 1330s) document that includes religious works, a chronicle, etc. Legend of Pope Gregory shows transcribed text, bibliographical info (click on book with “i”) and facsimile
For Thursday, read Julia Flanders Flanders et al TEI
Thursday, October 4
- Tutorial for Oxygen and GitHub
- Introduction to Oxygen editing environment (download/install); each student opens their individual transcribed text file (.xml) in Oxygen, then pastes it into a pre-built template as instructed.
- How we view mark up as an act of extreme close reading- deconstructing and rebuilding text based on editorial decisions
- Analyzing data (text)
- TEI tags
- Compiling a prosopography (people, places, and events)
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Thursday, October 11
Close Reading module parameters and major assignment overview
- Continue work in Oxygen
- Start thinking about how to publish an online edition of your transcribed and marked up memoir(s) + compiled class edition of memoirs
- Tagging protocols
Over the weekend, read Elena Pierazzo, “A Rationale of Digital Documentary Editions.” You will be discussing this article in your next blog post.
