jason boyd / jason.boyd@ryerson / @jasonaboyd assistant professor, department of english

From Print Collections to Digital Corpus:Re-envisioning

Records of Early English Drama Online

Routes & Routes Summer Institute 2014

Jason Boyd / jason.boyd@ryerson.ca / @jasonaboydAssistant Professor, Department of EnglishActing Co-Director, Centre for Digital HumanitiesRyerson University, Toronto

Roots & Routes 2014: Sociability and Materiality Pertinent RRSI2014 questions:

What new ways of envisioning archives [or more generally, collections] (as processes as well as products) are being facilitated by digital technologies?

How do digital media and methodologies change the ways in which we identify, access, and interpret historical records?

What might "collaborative research" in digital environments have to learn from (and teach) the history of earlier forms of scholarly sociability?

Overview

I. REED in Print to REED Online: Need, Challenges, From Collections to Corpus

II. The Fortune Theatre Records Prototype Digital Edition

III. Reediting REED: Social Editing

REED (Records of Early English Drama) series

REED series (published collections in red)

REED’s semi-diplomatic transcription Lincolnshire, p.48

Divisions of a REED collection

Perseus Project 4.0 (1995-)

British History Online (2003-)

History of Parliament (1936-; Online 2011)

OED (1884-; Online 2000)

DNB (1884-; Online 2004)

REED on Internet Archive

REED Dorset/Cornwall on IA

From Collections to Corpus

Proposed REED Online Structure

Proposed Architecture of REED Corpus

REED Editorial Procedures

COLLECTION INTRODUCTIONS

Collection 1 Editorial Team Acknowledgements Historical Background Drama, Music, and Popular

Customs Collection 2 Etc. Collection 3

Etc.CORPUS of RECORDS Search/Advanced Search

CUMULATIVE APPARATUS Saint’s Days and Festivals Bibliography Glossaries Latin English Index

II.

FORTUNE THEATRE RECORDS PROTOTYPE

DIGITAL EDITION

Fortune Theatre Records Prototype Digital Edition (FTR): http://ereed.cch.kcl.ac.uk/

http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/FortuneWhitePaper.pdf

Text Encoding Initiative (www.tei-c.org)

Example REED at-codes @a\...@a \Encloses text written above the line

@b\...@b \Encloses text written below the line

@l\...@l \Encloses marginalia in the left margin

Presentational to Descriptive Markup

REED at-code{…} (render in italic)

{(signed)} John Smith

{Finsbury Manor Records}

l{ett}res patent{es}

TEI P5 equivalent

<seg type=“signature”>John Smith</seg>

<title type=“record_head”>Finsbury Manor

Records</title>l<ex>ett</ex>es

patent<ex>es</ex>

Document damaged, missing text

Dittography

Dating note

Overwriting

Editorial correction

Conjectural editorial correction

III.REEDITING REED

REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook

Anglo-Latin Wordbook: ‘histrio’

‘Patrons and Travelling Companies’

Patrons and Performances Web Site (2003-)

William Stanley, Earl of Derby

Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire

Cumulative Performance Itinerary

EMLoT faceted browser

Henry III Fine Rolls: Subject index

REED Lincolnshire 239

St James' Churchwardens' Accounts LA: LOUTH ST JAMES PAR/7/2

f 124v* (21 April—12 April) (Payments)...Item paid to ye queens maiesties seruantes

whenas they plaied in ye church xij s....

REED Lincolnshire, index entrieschurches

playing inchurchwardens

accountsElizabeth I, queen of England

playersentertainers and entertainment

patronized performerssee also players; plays and playing

Louthlocations in

St Jamesrecords

St James' Churchwardens' Accounts

playerspatronized

playing placeschapels, churches, and churchyards

plays and playingqueens

of Englandsee also Elizabeth I

St James, Louth, church ofservants

see also players

‘beer’

York (1979) no entryCoventry (1981) no entry (but entry for ale)Newcastle Upon Tyne (1982) drink, for <group>Norwich 1540-1642 (1984) drink, at <occasion>, for <group>Cumb/Westmld/Glouc (1986) beer, see under drink

drink, at <place>

beer

Devon (1986) beer, see under drink and drinking

drink and drinking

beer

Cambridge (1989) no entryHeref/Worc (1990) beer, see under drink and drinking

drink and drinking

beer

Lancashire (1991) drink and drinking

ale and beerShropshire (1994) drink and drinking, at <place>, prohibitedSomerset (1996) beer, see under drink and drinking

drink and drinking

ale and beer

Bristol (1997) beerdrinks

(kinds of)

beerDorset/Cornwall (1999) beer, see under drinks (kinds of)Sussex (2000) beer

drink and drinking

see also ale; beer; wine

The Papers of George Washington (1976-)

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (2008)

Wikipedia

Shirky, Chapter 11

Promise Tool Bargain

Why does Wikipedia Work?

Unmanaged distribution of labour (power law distribution)

Publish, then filter

Multiple motivations of contributors

Community

Wikipedia, “Asphalt concrete” stats

Ray Siemens, et al.

Crowdsourced scholarship Transcribe Bentham

Transcribe Bentham Top Contributors

Transcribe Bentham FAQ

Transcribe Bentham Subjects

WikiProjects

“Parish ale,” Wikipedia

Thank you!

Jason BoydDepartment of English &

Centre for Digital HumanitiesRyerson University, Toronto

jason.boyd@ryerson.ca@jasonaboyd