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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
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 in
churchwardens
accounts
Elizabeth I, queen of England
players
entertainers and entertainment
patronized performers
see also players; plays and playing
Louth
locations in
St James
records
St James' Churchwardens' Accounts
players
patronized
playing places
chapels, churches, and churchyards
plays and playing
queens
of England
see also Elizabeth I
St James, Louth, church of
servants
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
[email protected]@jasonaboyd