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From Print Collections to Digital Corpus:Re-envisioning
Records of Early English Drama Online
Routes & Routes Summer Institute 2014
Jason Boyd / [email protected] / @jasonaboydAssistant Professor, Department of EnglishActing Co-Director, Centre for Digital HumanitiesRyerson University, Toronto
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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?
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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
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REED (Records of Early English Drama) series
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REED series (published collections in red)
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REED’s semi-diplomatic transcription Lincolnshire, p.48
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Divisions of a REED collection
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Perseus Project 4.0 (1995-)
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British History Online (2003-)
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History of Parliament (1936-; Online 2011)
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OED (1884-; Online 2000)
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DNB (1884-; Online 2004)
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REED on Internet Archive
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REED Dorset/Cornwall on IA
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From Collections to Corpus
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Proposed REED Online Structure
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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
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II.
FORTUNE THEATRE RECORDS PROTOTYPE
DIGITAL EDITION
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Fortune Theatre Records Prototype Digital Edition (FTR): http://ereed.cch.kcl.ac.uk/
http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/FortuneWhitePaper.pdf
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Text Encoding Initiative (www.tei-c.org)
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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
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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>
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Document damaged, missing text
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Dittography
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Dating note
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Overwriting
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Editorial correction
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Conjectural editorial correction
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III.REEDITING REED
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REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook
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Anglo-Latin Wordbook: ‘histrio’
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‘Patrons and Travelling Companies’
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Patrons and Performances Web Site (2003-)
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William Stanley, Earl of Derby
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Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire
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Cumulative Performance Itinerary
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EMLoT faceted browser
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Henry III Fine Rolls: Subject index
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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....
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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
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‘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
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The Papers of George Washington (1976-)
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Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (2008)
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Wikipedia
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Shirky, Chapter 11
Promise Tool Bargain
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Why does Wikipedia Work?
Unmanaged distribution of labour (power law distribution)
Publish, then filter
Multiple motivations of contributors
Community
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Wikipedia, “Asphalt concrete” stats
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Ray Siemens, et al.
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Crowdsourced scholarship Transcribe Bentham
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Transcribe Bentham Top Contributors
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Transcribe Bentham FAQ
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Transcribe Bentham Subjects
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WikiProjects
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“Parish ale,” Wikipedia
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Thank you!
Jason BoydDepartment of English &
Centre for Digital HumanitiesRyerson University, Toronto
[email protected]@jasonaboyd