Close Reading 10/6-10/17

CLOSE Reading

Week 6:

Monday, October 6

  •  Topic: Further discussion of markup 
    Why did you tag what you did?
    What words did you think were important?
    Why did you want to?
    Where did you find confusion or ambiguity?
    What – as a result – are you learning about Powell that you might not have noticed before?
    What does this mean in the context of professional digital scholarship?
    Editions
    Collections

Introduction: Close Reading module parameters and major assignment overview (module extends from 10/6 to 10/26)
Mark up as act of extreme close reading – deconstructing and rebuilding text based on editorial decisions
Analyzing data (text)
Compiling prosopography (metadata about people, places, and events)
Publishing an online edition of your transcribed and marked up diary entry + compiled class edition of diary excerpt

Examples
Bentham Project  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/publications
First digital editions (not output of Transcribe Bentham, but these types of edition TB will contribute to)
Not Paul, But Jesus Vol. III. Doctrine http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/publications/npbj/npbj.html     
Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts  http://www.janeausten.ac.uk/index.html
Preservation
Shared resources
Importance of manuscript in understanding author’s development of text
Facsimile + transcription
Digital Thoreau http://www.digitalthoreau.org/
Scholarly and community-based approach to different forms of reading Walden
Fluid edition allows reader to compare different editions of text side-by-side. Click on text in either pane to see changes between them.  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
(NB: most works are subscription only – Bucknell has database subscription – 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 (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

Assignment for Wednesday:
Pierazzo article

Wednesday, October 8

  • Look at examples of TEI-based digital editions and archives (look at browser view, then code view. Instructor/students develop tag list based on highlighted text from Google doc that aligns with TEI elements and attributes list.  Introduction to TEI, part 2: What does TEI do for us? How do we make choices about what we want to analyze? Elements and attributes
  • **for Friday*** revised transcribed excerpt is downloaded from Google doc as .txt file; each student is given a section to mark up

Friday, October 10

  • Friday, 10/10
    Close Reading Assignment introduced
  •  TEI  training–Diane Jakacki comes in to help set up frame
  • Encode documents

**for Wednesday** students add their highlighted text (people, places, events) into linked Google spreadsheets; add metadata in fields laid out (the question being, what information are we gathering about these people, places and events from the diaries? How do we begin to sort and compile it?)

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FALL BREAK

Week 7:

Wednesday, October 15

  •  Introduction to Oxygen editing environment (download/install); each student opens their individual transcribed text file in Oxygen, then pastes it into pre-built template as instructed. Experiment with simple tagging and document validation.
  • PHASE  1 Tagging parameters for class
    name contains information about a person or organization.
    place contains information about a location
    event contains data relating to any kind of significant event associated with a person, place, or organization. <event>splitting rails</event>
    object contains a word or phrase describing the type of object being referred to.
    date contains a date in any format.
    time contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format.
    state contains a description of some status or quality attributed to a person, place, or organization often at some specific time or for a specific date range.
    trait contains a description of some status or quality attributed to a person, place, or organization typically, but not necessarily, independent of the volition or action of the holder and usually not at some specific time or for a specific date range.Rely on TEI Guidelines for clarification http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html

    PHASE 2 Tagging parameters for class – w/o 10/15 & 10/20

    Tag                         Element                                                            Associated Attributes

    name <persName>Some Name</persName> <roleName>Title or Rank</roleName> <affiliation>National identity or religion or club</affiliation> can include type=“” and n=“”
    place <placeName>Some Place</placeName> can include type=“” and n=“”
    event <name type=“[pre-defined event category]”>Some Event</name> can include n=“”
    object <objectType>Some object can include n=“”
    date <date>Some day or date</date> can include a number of elements that are specific or general
    time <time>Some Time</tim> can include a number of elements that are specific or general
    state <state>some time-related status or quality</state> can include type=“” must nest <desc></desc>
    trait <trait>some  ongoing status or quality</trait> can include type=“” must nest <desc></desc>
    language <lang>Some Language</lang> can include n=“”
    affiliation <affiliation>Some Affiliation</affiliation> can include n=“n”

    If there are more words that need to be marked up, have students search in guidelines and then we can custom-build tags
    Review and refine the early prosopography that students have developed. Consolidate information that appears multiple times, begin to fill in more details based on in-class collaboration and examination of historical records

Friday, October 17

  •  Expand markup & develop prosopography for digital edition use
    Consider how our thought process changes when we think about terms while adding an attribute to a tag (e.g. <placeName type=”church” n=”St. Paul’s Cathedral”>) Make list of applicable attribute types and how granular we can get with place names and person names.TEI

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