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Jason Boyd / jason.boyd@ryerson / @jasonaboyd Assistant Professor, Department of English

From Print Collections to Digital Corpus: Re-envisioning Records of Early English Drama Online Routes & Routes Summer Institute 2014. Jason Boyd / jason.boyd@ryerson.ca / @jasonaboyd Assistant Professor, Department of English Acting Co-Director, Centre for Digital Humanities

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Jason Boyd / jason.boyd@ryerson / @jasonaboyd Assistant Professor, Department of English

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  1. From Print Collections to Digital Corpus:Re-envisioning Records of Early English Drama OnlineRoutes & Routes Summer Institute 2014 Jason Boyd / jason.boyd@ryerson.ca / @jasonaboyd Assistant Professor, Department of English Acting Co-Director, Centre for Digital Humanities Ryerson University, Toronto

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. REED (Records of Early English Drama) series

  5. REED series (published collections in red)

  6. REED’s semi-diplomatic transcription • Lincolnshire, p.48

  7. Divisions of a REED collection

  8. Perseus Project 4.0 (1995-)

  9. British History Online (2003-)

  10. History of Parliament (1936-; Online 2011)

  11. OED (1884-; Online 2000)

  12. DNB (1884-; Online 2004)

  13. REED on Internet Archive

  14. REED Dorset/Cornwall on IA

  15. From Collections to Corpus

  16. Proposed REED Online Structure

  17. 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

  18. II. FORTUNE THEATRE RECORDS PROTOTYPE DIGITAL EDITION

  19. Fortune Theatre Records Prototype Digital Edition (FTR): http://ereed.cch.kcl.ac.uk/ http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/FortuneWhitePaper.pdf

  20. Text Encoding Initiative (www.tei-c.org)

  21. 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

  22. Presentational to Descriptive Markup REED at-code {…} (render in italic) {(signed)} John Smith {Finsbury Manor Records} l{ett}respatent{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>

  23. Document damaged, missing text

  24. Dittography

  25. Dating note

  26. Overwriting

  27. Editorial correction

  28. Conjectural editorial correction

  29. III. REEDITING REED

  30. REED Anglo-Latin Wordbook

  31. Anglo-Latin Wordbook: ‘histrio’

  32. ‘Patrons and Travelling Companies’

  33. Patrons and Performances Web Site (2003-)

  34. William Stanley, Earl of Derby

  35. Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire

  36. Cumulative Performance Itinerary

  37. EMLoT faceted browser

  38. Henry III Fine Rolls: Subject index

  39. 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 maiestiesseruanteswhenas they plaied in ye church xijs. ...

  40. REED Lincolnshire, index entries churches 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

  41. ‘beer’ York (1979) no entry Coventry (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 underdrink drink, at <place> beer Devon (1986) beer, see underdrink and drinking drink and drinking beer Cambridge (1989) no entry Heref/Worc (1990) beer, see underdrink and drinking drink and drinking beer Lancashire (1991) drink and drinking ale and beer Shropshire (1994) drink and drinking, at <place>, prohibited Somerset (1996) beer, see underdrink and drinking drink and drinking ale and beer Bristol (1997) beer drinks (kinds of) beer Dorset/Cornwall (1999) beer, see underdrinks (kinds of) Sussex (2000) beer drink and drinking see alsoale; beer; wine

  42. The Papers of George Washington (1976-)

  43. Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (2008)

  44. Wikipedia

  45. Shirky, Chapter 11 • Promise • Tool • Bargain

  46. Why does Wikipedia Work? • Unmanaged distribution of labour (power law distribution) • Publish, then filter • Multiple motivations of contributors • Community

  47. Wikipedia, “Asphalt concrete” stats

  48. Ray Siemens, et al.

  49. Crowdsourced scholarship • Transcribe Bentham

  50. Transcribe Bentham Top Contributors

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