Cleveland & Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project - Suzhen Chen & Richard Wisneski
- 1. 2010 CALA MW Annual Conference Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project Suzhen Chen Richard Wisneski Kevin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University May 22, 2010
- 2. Institution Case Western Reserve University (CRWU) Founded in 1967 (federation of Case Institute of Technology founded in 1881 and Western Reserve University founded in 1826) A private research university in northeast Ohio ~10,000 students Kelvin Smith Library Main library of CWRU ~ 1.7 million volumes ~ 60 library staff
- 3. Project (What) Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project A collection of digital resources of history of Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve date from early 19th century to early 20th century The collection covers various topics including women of Cleveland, religion, housing etc. About 100 text files added to the collection, more to be added including some manuscripts
- 4. Project(Why) Online representation of the collection Provide resources for historians, scholars and others who are interested in Cleveland, OH and Western Reserve Serve the learning and teaching purpose Promote scholarly communication Long term preservation of regional history
- 5. Metadata standard Intended users Project Types of needs materials Metadata Standard Subjects, Genre Preservation needs …
- 6. TEI: Text Encoding Initiative A consortium that develops the standard for representing texts in digital form. Maintain encoding guidelines for text Often applies to humanities, social science and linguistics
- 7. Example: Projects from other institutions: Shakespeare Quartos Archive Newton Manuscript Project (University of Sussex) Early American Digital Archive (University of Maryland)
- 8. Example of TEI Header <titleStmt> <editionStmt> <publicationStmt> …
- 9. Example of an encoded text
- 10. TEI Metadata Standard Mark up specific genres such as prose, verse, drama Mark content structure such as paragraphs, divisions Mark up feature of a text such as quotations, footnotes etc. Mark up texts for literary and linguistic analysis
- 12. Example of an encoded text <lg> <l rend="font-size(110%) indent(-60)">"Fury said to</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-40px)">a mouse, That</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(0px)">he met</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(10px)">in the</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(20px)">house,</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(17px)">'Let us</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(5px)">both go</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-7px)">to law:</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-23px)"><hi rend="italic">I</hi> will</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-26px)">prosecute</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-40px)"><hi rend="italic">you.</hi> —</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-30px)">Come, I'll</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-20px)">take no</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-7px)">denial;</l> … </lg> http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples
- 13. TEI Metadata Standard Provides various manifestations of a text or audio Independent of applications TEI is extensible Accommodate encoding methods for data processing needs and analysis For better description, organization and classification of information
- 15. Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project Establish Finalize the workflows, Trainings are project policies and provided procedures Run through optical character Text files recognition scanned software – Abbyy FineReader
- 16. Procedures Spelling check for the texts Create TEI headers Bibliographic description, revisions, source of text Encode the text Quality control
- 17. Implementation Workshops In-house documentations for best practice Standards On line resources Examples for completed work Assistance from supervisor Learn from each other
- 18. Example of an In-house documentation
- 19. Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project For future metadata conversion, exchange, facilitate metadata harvesting and federated search Facilitate metadata sharing and cross- collection searching
- 20. Future Improvement Make text searchable through web Have hyper linked, referenced electronic resources
- 21. Resources WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/guide/index.ht ml Teach Yourself TEI: http://www.tei- c.org/Support/Learn/tutorials.xml A Gentle Introduction to XML: http://www.tei- c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-doc/html/SG.htmlA A Companion to Digital Literary Studies: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/
- 22. References TEI: Text Encoding Initiative, “TEI: Text Encoding Initiative,” 2010, http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Cataloging Section. “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report,” 1998, http://www.ifla.org.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/VII/s13/frbr/frb r.htm TEI By Example Project, “TEI By Example Project,” 2010, http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples …