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From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
  • Hilary Havens
  • Eliza Alexander Wilcox
  • Meredith L. Hale
  • Jamie Kramer
  • collaboration
  • transcription
  • metadata
  • markup
  • archives
  • manuscripts
  • semantic web
  • ethics
  • editing
  • crowdsourcing
  • Zooniverse
  • TEI
  • linked open data
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • name authorities
  • digital archives
  • Romantic period
  • long eighteenth century
  • correspondence
  • controlled vocabularies

Our article describes how we are building the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, an open-access archive containing Maria Edgeworth's correspondence, tracing our steps including image retrieval and processing, metadata generation, transcription, linked open data, and TEI encoding.

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A Model of Versions and Layers
  • Desmond Schmidt
  • digitization
  • manuscripts
  • markup
  • transcription
  • editing

    Presents a critique of current text-encoding practices centered on difficulties concerning the encoding of multiple versions of individual texts

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