Name Authorities

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.