Tag: markup
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Close Reading – Powell Diary XML Markup
At first, the Powell Diary was not a very meaningful text to me. I felt distanced from the content and did not quite fully understand what was going on or what the significance was. However, through the process of constantly marking the text up, at first in the google doc and eventually in Oxygen, I…
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The Process of Editing Texts
“The process of selection is inevitably an interpretative act: what we choose to represent and what we do not depends either on the particular vision that we have of a particular manuscript or on practical constraints.” (Elena Pierazzo 2.1) Through collaborative work on the transcription of the Powell Diary along with applying TEI-compliant XML markup…
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#tagging
The close reading of a text can in some cases reveal much more substance than other methods. In the case of the Powell diary, close reading has enabled us to learn about the lives of Shamokin residents, both native and Moravian, in great depth. According to Pierazzo, we conducted a diplomatic edition; a transcription that is…