The textual studies project I am working on for this class is actually on Oscar Wilde, and I think there are many opportunities for doing a fascinating investigation into the reader/author circuit that Darnton describes through the use of digital archives. These investigations could show how the interpretation of Wilde's texts by readers changed over time, and how this effected the way Wilde himself manipulated his texts. There are several digital archives of Wilde's manuscripts and letters, including the Harry Ransom Center's collection at UT Austin. One could focus on a certain text (The Picture of Dorian Gray seems perfect for such an investigation), and see what Wilde says in his manuscripts and letters about reader reception of the texts. This could provide insight into why Wilde made some of the emendations to this text, but even beyond that this easy access to his manuscripts could provide information about how Wilde's contemporary readers interpreted some of the themes in his novel. The ability to easily look at letters and manuscripts all in one place is invaluable (as opposed to having to physically go to each collection).
There is also room for expansion in Wilde digital archives. Some of them provide copies of actual texts, but as far as I can find there is no archive that has different variants of one text digitized. This would also be incredibly helpful, because the researcher could compare textual variants side by side to see exactly what Wilde changed (instead of having to rely solely on a single print edition with variants or multiple print editions). This would again provide useful information about the reception of certain thematic issues in Wilde's text, thus providing more insight into Victorian culture and readers.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Digital Humanities Project: Joaquin Murietta
Joaquin Murietta, a Mexican folk hero, began in the late 1800's as a character in the novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murietta by John Rollins Ridge. Ridge's character was popular, and did not end with his novel. Joaquin Murietta became a character in exciting newspaper stories throughout the 19th century. Eventually the character Joaquin took to the big screen in the Western "Murieta." The progression of Ridge's character from book to newspaper to movie screen is fascinating, but not what makes this an interesting project idea. What makes Joaquin Murietta digital humanities project worthy, is the use of the character as a symbol of freedom during the Chicano movement in the 1960's. I would hope that this DH project might highlight the importance of pop culture figures, and the way that they become much larger and more important than the author might have originally intended. I also would want to create more interest in chicano/a/x literature. My aim would be to make a timeline for the character out of the content UNT already hosts, along with research done on Ridge, and the use of Joaquin Murietta as a figure for the Chicano movement.
Ideally UNT would sign on and host my project. Another route to consider would be a blog, or website geared toward the digital humanities, possibly HASTAC. Something I would find important in either being hosted by UNT or any other website would for the project to have it's own specific URL in order to make it easier to find.
Ideally a team of five people total would work on this project. One partner with knowledge of web design and aesthetics- nice color scheme, font, etc.. Other collaboration would include scholars with interest in both Literature and History.
Victorian Shakespeare
Because the reception, reading, and production history of Shakespeare's plays -- particularly in the in the Victorian period -- has in many ways affected the way that we look at those works today, I would be interested in a digital Victorian Shakespeare archive. Michael Goodman, a PhD candidate at the University of Cardiff, published this September as part of his doctoral work the Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive, a collection of 3000 illustrations from Victorian editions of the works of Shakespeare. I find his work to be quite interesting, but I would like to take it further and look at information similar to what Cordell talks about in his piece: newspapers and other periodicals, books, personal diary entries, letters, and the like. Many of the traditional modes and moments in productions of specific Shakespearean plays originated in this period, and I would be interested to be able to draw out information about the ways that those modes evolved with in the period and were accepted or others rejected that may not have reached us today.
I certainly have very little experience creating digital interface is, and the ability to research these type of artifacts with in the time. It's not something I am fluent at, so both of these would be steep learning curves and areas I would need help with. There's also really a question of accessing the correct materials. Knowing when and where to go, and then being able to actually physically access them.
Digital Humanities Project
Using the above image as inspiration, I propose the following
digital humanities project focusing on a medieval medical text such as the
Cotton Vitellius C iii manuscript Pseudo-Apuleius,
Herbarium, which is part of the British Library collection, perhaps also
drawing upon other versions that are housed in other libraries around the world. My project would be educational in nature and
not a data project.
Taking further
inspiration from the following film on medieval architecture https://oxfordfriars.wordpress.ncsu.edu/the-film/
, I would like to provide a short film, up to 15 minutes long detailing key
features and background into the manuscript.
Information such as how it was produced, compilations of specific texts,
the history of the book through the ages, the annotations, botanical features,
natural history, and medicinal recipes.
Finally, I would link this to modern day medicine based upon current
interdisciplinary research (ex. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/festival/weds21/medicine.aspx, listen to cloud SoundCloud lecture).
This project would be static and provide a moment in
time. Collaboration would include
scholars knowledgeable in the medieval manuscripts, history, and medicine both then
and now. I would also need some assistance with pulling together a professional
video, including a narrator and some music. I might use a digital humanities
platform like https://www.zooniverse.org/
or something associated with UNT. The
cost of the project would be finite with the exception of annual hosting costs and I would apply for a grant to fund
it. If I used UNT to host the project, I
would project a scholarly image and continued maintenance costs could be built in as
required.
Bibliography
- Diane Culpin, 17 November 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Milestone Documents
https://www.milestonedocuments.com/faq#faqs
The above link leads to a primary source reader (log in required, but you get the gist from the FAQ). The site includes over 1700 primary sources (and is constantly expanding). Each entry presents an image of the original document, a transcript, and an analysis and commentary.
These sources are divided into 8 topical units; i.e. African-American History, Ancient Near East, etc. Each unit includes a selection of core documents and is then customizable from there. Professors can hide the commentary from students to encourage independent analysis, and then restore commentary following class discussion.
Each article features links to related primary source documents (each with their own analysis and commentary). Students can highlight, annotate, and save their notes directly via their site account. Professors can do the same, either privately (for teaching notes), or publicly (to direct/instruct) students.
This online textbook/teaching tool exemplifies the elasticity of dynamic texts (holding a breadth of information to great to compile into print; customizable unlike print), and of interactive/hypertext (both students and professors can take and share notes directly via the site). The latter demonstrates the pedagogical advantages of hypertext.
The above link leads to a primary source reader (log in required, but you get the gist from the FAQ). The site includes over 1700 primary sources (and is constantly expanding). Each entry presents an image of the original document, a transcript, and an analysis and commentary.
These sources are divided into 8 topical units; i.e. African-American History, Ancient Near East, etc. Each unit includes a selection of core documents and is then customizable from there. Professors can hide the commentary from students to encourage independent analysis, and then restore commentary following class discussion.
Each article features links to related primary source documents (each with their own analysis and commentary). Students can highlight, annotate, and save their notes directly via their site account. Professors can do the same, either privately (for teaching notes), or publicly (to direct/instruct) students.
This online textbook/teaching tool exemplifies the elasticity of dynamic texts (holding a breadth of information to great to compile into print; customizable unlike print), and of interactive/hypertext (both students and professors can take and share notes directly via the site). The latter demonstrates the pedagogical advantages of hypertext.
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a transatlantic collection of editions of Shakespeare's plays from before 1642. The archive is comprised of two main sections: the Hamlet prototype and the British Library's Shakespeare in Quarto site. The first offers "full cover-to-cover digital reproductions and transcriptions of thirty-two copies of the five earliest editions of the play Hamlet. You can view quartos separately, or alongside any number of copies. You can search annotate, make public or private sets of annotations, create exhibits or character cue line lists, and download and print text and images." This functionality seems to embody many of the virtues McGann identifies in digital archives. The texts are searchable and can be compared side by side in facsimile. The site itself, however, is not as fully fleshed-out as it could be in order to really take advantage of the potential it holds. It announces plans to add "full functionality" for all of Shakespeare's quarto plays, but the site began in 2008, and Hamlet remains the only text represented. The Shakespeare in Quarto site, which is credited as a predecessor project, is under the auspices of the British Library and seems to be joined to the Quartos Archive but does not seem fully a part of it (I would say that it is really a part of the British Library site). The Quartos Archive says, "The Shakespeare Quartos Archive expands the British Library's 'Shakespeare in Quarto' website into an online collection reproducing at least one copy of every edition of William Shakespeare's plays printed in quarto before the theatres closed in 1642." Thus, one must access both sites to have access to the breadth of what the archive claims. This access, however, adds the ability to compare facsimiles of 107 quartos (not all of the same play, and only two at a time).
The British Library site offers more textual information and references and background, but it is not searchable in the way that the Archive is; it is based on the facsimile, and missing the other elements of digital archives. Other site, such as the Folger Digital Texts of Shakespeare's plays, are based solely on the words themselves, containing high searchability within the text but without facsimiles or the ability to search between editions of a particular text (they instead create their own text rather than provide access to textual variation).
The British Library site offers more textual information and references and background, but it is not searchable in the way that the Archive is; it is based on the facsimile, and missing the other elements of digital archives. Other site, such as the Folger Digital Texts of Shakespeare's plays, are based solely on the words themselves, containing high searchability within the text but without facsimiles or the ability to search between editions of a particular text (they instead create their own text rather than provide access to textual variation).
Woolf Online
http://www.woolfonline.com/
Woolf Online is a digital archive containing the holograph drafts, proofs, early editions, and contextual materials on the subject of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the site is divided into four major sections of material: (1) Bibliography, which displays an exhaustive list of criticism on To the Lighthouse with respective links to each citation; (2) Contextual, which contains digital scans as well as transcriptions of material about the novel like newspaper reviews, letters, and journal entries; (3) Image, which showcases scans of the original manuscripts, essay drafts, early editions, proofs, etc.; and (4) Text, which contains transcription pages of the aforementioned material.
In relation to our readings this week, the Woolf Online archive displays the true potential of hypermedia in its range and extent. It is a resource I hadn't known about before, but one I will certainly use in my future scholarship on Woolf. Significantly, the site contains digital scans of proofs heretofore solely available for viewing in the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College in Massachusetts. Moreover, the content is organized in a clear and deliberate manner. The resource is now hosted by the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University and, in McGann's words, has the potential to--indeed, the expectation to--be "indefinitely expanded and developed" (470).
Other Sources Consulted:
https://www.smith.edu/news/new-digital-humanities-project-virginia-woolf/
Woolf Online is a digital archive containing the holograph drafts, proofs, early editions, and contextual materials on the subject of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the site is divided into four major sections of material: (1) Bibliography, which displays an exhaustive list of criticism on To the Lighthouse with respective links to each citation; (2) Contextual, which contains digital scans as well as transcriptions of material about the novel like newspaper reviews, letters, and journal entries; (3) Image, which showcases scans of the original manuscripts, essay drafts, early editions, proofs, etc.; and (4) Text, which contains transcription pages of the aforementioned material.
In relation to our readings this week, the Woolf Online archive displays the true potential of hypermedia in its range and extent. It is a resource I hadn't known about before, but one I will certainly use in my future scholarship on Woolf. Significantly, the site contains digital scans of proofs heretofore solely available for viewing in the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College in Massachusetts. Moreover, the content is organized in a clear and deliberate manner. The resource is now hosted by the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University and, in McGann's words, has the potential to--indeed, the expectation to--be "indefinitely expanded and developed" (470).
Other Sources Consulted:
https://www.smith.edu/news/new-digital-humanities-project-virginia-woolf/
The John Milton Reading Room
http://digitalhumanities.dartmouth.edu/projects/the-john-milton-reading-room/
The John Milton Reading Room is an online archive in affiliation with Digital Humanities at Dartmouth. It is comprised of prose, poetry, epigrams, and Paradise Lost/Regain'd in digital form. The viewer has the language options of Latin and English, and a Dartmouth login isn't required to view the archives. The "project principal investigator" as is stated on the website, or general editor, is Thomas H. Luxon of the Dartmouth department of English. The website design is by the DALI Lab. As quoted from the web page, Digital Humanities is "where computing meets the big picture questions across the disciplines of the humanities. by its very nature, it involves novel methods, analysis, and tools to discover new ways of understanding to world around us." Though this archive does not perfectly align with the idea of the social edition per "Toward Modeling the Social Edition," there are social practices put in to this collection that make me wonder if it can be categorized as such regardless.
This project is using social media in an interesting way- "the Milton Reading Room Facebook page is experimenting successfully with crowd-sourced scholarship"- so it is socially funded. I requested to join their Facebook page, and was met with posts from the editor, Thomas H. Luxon, as well as people I assume are either interested in the project, or are working on it as well. On November 7 Luxon updated that he is "working on a bit of a mystery today concerning the Tetrachordon." He goes on to explain that several online editions are missing pages, and he is trying to figure out if there was a photocopying error, or if the book is actually missing those pages. There are other interactive posts throughout the page in which the editor is keeping his readers up to date with his current scholarship regarding the John Milton Reading Room. There is even a post asking for peer review. The John Milton Reading Room is an intriguing project in my opinion due to the use of social media in its assembly.
The John Milton Reading Room is an online archive in affiliation with Digital Humanities at Dartmouth. It is comprised of prose, poetry, epigrams, and Paradise Lost/Regain'd in digital form. The viewer has the language options of Latin and English, and a Dartmouth login isn't required to view the archives. The "project principal investigator" as is stated on the website, or general editor, is Thomas H. Luxon of the Dartmouth department of English. The website design is by the DALI Lab. As quoted from the web page, Digital Humanities is "where computing meets the big picture questions across the disciplines of the humanities. by its very nature, it involves novel methods, analysis, and tools to discover new ways of understanding to world around us." Though this archive does not perfectly align with the idea of the social edition per "Toward Modeling the Social Edition," there are social practices put in to this collection that make me wonder if it can be categorized as such regardless.
This project is using social media in an interesting way- "the Milton Reading Room Facebook page is experimenting successfully with crowd-sourced scholarship"- so it is socially funded. I requested to join their Facebook page, and was met with posts from the editor, Thomas H. Luxon, as well as people I assume are either interested in the project, or are working on it as well. On November 7 Luxon updated that he is "working on a bit of a mystery today concerning the Tetrachordon." He goes on to explain that several online editions are missing pages, and he is trying to figure out if there was a photocopying error, or if the book is actually missing those pages. There are other interactive posts throughout the page in which the editor is keeping his readers up to date with his current scholarship regarding the John Milton Reading Room. There is even a post asking for peer review. The John Milton Reading Room is an intriguing project in my opinion due to the use of social media in its assembly.
Hypertext, dynamic, social editions
Dynamic Texts
Bloomfield's Letters
https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/bloomfield_letters/HTML/letterEEd.25.1.html
Collected Letters of Robert Southey
https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters/Part_Two/HTML/letterEEd.26.317.html
Digital scholarly archives / hypertext editions
Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
Rossetti archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/
Hypertext scholarship
Hypertext History of the Transmission of Coleridge's "Christabel" (1998)
https://www.erudit.org/projspec/article/005806ar/005806arp012.html#contents
Tools that might facilitate a social or dynamic edition
Collaborative transcription:
Mary Smith's Commonplace Book transcription project
https://transcription.si.edu/project/6774
Collaborative Annotation (in a limited community):
Hannah More's Letters (collaboratively annotated in separate space)
http://hannahmoreletters.co.uk/Letters/
User-derived content:
NINES http://www.nines.org/about/
Book Traces: http://www.booktraces.org/
Folksonomy tagging:
The English Broadside Ballad Archive (now standardized)
https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
Bloomfield's Letters
https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/bloomfield_letters/HTML/letterEEd.25.1.html
Collected Letters of Robert Southey
https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters/Part_Two/HTML/letterEEd.26.317.html
Digital scholarly archives / hypertext editions
Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
Rossetti archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/
Hypertext scholarship
Hypertext History of the Transmission of Coleridge's "Christabel" (1998)
https://www.erudit.org/projspec/article/005806ar/005806arp012.html#contents
Tools that might facilitate a social or dynamic edition
Collaborative transcription:
Mary Smith's Commonplace Book transcription project
https://transcription.si.edu/project/6774
Collaborative Annotation (in a limited community):
Hannah More's Letters (collaboratively annotated in separate space)
http://hannahmoreletters.co.uk/Letters/
User-derived content:
NINES http://www.nines.org/about/
Book Traces: http://www.booktraces.org/
Folksonomy tagging:
The English Broadside Ballad Archive (now standardized)
https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/
Victorian Web
www.victorianweb.org
The digital archive I have chosen is The Victorian Web. I find it to be an interesting example of some of the issues that were brought up in both the McGann and the Siemens et al. articles. The archive is curated by George P. Landow, professor of English and Art History at Brown University. Landow does serve as a gatekeeper for what gets added to the site; however, anyone is welcome to e-mail him with contributions. This is somewhere in between a standard edition and the social edition Siemens et al. were envisioning. The other interesting thing about this archive is it is somewhat decentralized in nature. Part of this comes from the fact that it is centered around a certain time period instead of a work of literature, but even when you click on the author or textual tabs you get no one text or author from this time period privileged. You can find various information on a number of texts, with most individual pages using hypertextual editing in order to provide outside information and criticism about an author or their work. Victorian Web has some limitations, and I think a lot of this is due to the scope of this project (for instance, many longer works like novels do not have hyperlinks to a full text). It is still a fascinating example of what a digital archive could look like and how digital archives do not have to privilege a single text, work, or even author.
The digital archive I have chosen is The Victorian Web. I find it to be an interesting example of some of the issues that were brought up in both the McGann and the Siemens et al. articles. The archive is curated by George P. Landow, professor of English and Art History at Brown University. Landow does serve as a gatekeeper for what gets added to the site; however, anyone is welcome to e-mail him with contributions. This is somewhere in between a standard edition and the social edition Siemens et al. were envisioning. The other interesting thing about this archive is it is somewhat decentralized in nature. Part of this comes from the fact that it is centered around a certain time period instead of a work of literature, but even when you click on the author or textual tabs you get no one text or author from this time period privileged. You can find various information on a number of texts, with most individual pages using hypertextual editing in order to provide outside information and criticism about an author or their work. Victorian Web has some limitations, and I think a lot of this is due to the scope of this project (for instance, many longer works like novels do not have hyperlinks to a full text). It is still a fascinating example of what a digital archive could look like and how digital archives do not have to privilege a single text, work, or even author.
Shakespearean Study
I am sorry for the first post. Here I found a web page similar to Rossetti Archive, but it might send you to other pages. It was established in 1997 to help people research Shakespeare. I believe such work could be described as non page based work.
http://www.bardweb.net/study.html
Rum's Tale
I have tried to find a terminology for a digital text with out page numbers, but I was unsuccessful. Anyway, I found this interesting website that shows graphical novels in a different method, it does it in some way tell you where to start.
Here is the link to them
http://free-online-novels.com/graphic.html
The Graphical novel that I was examining is Rum's Tale.
http://www.lorestrome.com/devilsbone/main.htm
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Dante Gabriel Rosetti & Ghost Stories
I have always been drawn to the Pre-Rafaelites such as Rosetti, William Morris of the Arts & Crafts movement and John Ruskin. For this week's assignment I suggest this website: The Rosetti Archive
Taken from the home page:
Taken from the home page:
The Complete Writings and Pictures of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A Hypermedia Archive
The Rossetti Archive facilitates the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to
both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original
artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great
Britain. In Whistler's famous comment, “He was a king”.
Completed
in 2008 to the plan laid out in 1993, the Archive provides students and
scholars with access to all of DGR's pictorial and textual works and to
a large contextual corpus of materials, most drawn from the period when
DGR's work first appeared and established its reputation (approximately
1848-1920), but some stretching back to the 14th-century sources of his
Italian translations. All documents are encoded for structured search
and analysis. The Rossetti Archive aims to include high-quality digital
images of every surviving documentary state of DGR's works: all the
manuscripts, proofs, and original editions, as well as the drawings,
paintings, and designs of various kinds, including his collaborative
photographic and craft works. These primary materials are transacted
with a substantial body of editorial commentary, notes, and glosses.
As McGann was instrumental in the Rosetti Archive, I thought it might help if I also searched for another sort of hypermedia project on the Internet.
I found a site that does audios of ghost stories: Short Ghost and Horror Collection. I also found what could have been a great site for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". It had three videos, but the files were corrupt so I couldn't view them.
As McGann was instrumental in the Rosetti Archive, I thought it might help if I also searched for another sort of hypermedia project on the Internet.
I found a site that does audios of ghost stories: Short Ghost and Horror Collection. I also found what could have been a great site for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". It had three videos, but the files were corrupt so I couldn't view them.
Diane Culpin 10 November 2016
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Ebooks, fair use, and machine reading
"It looks like ebooks won't kill print books after all"
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/11/02/ebooks_are_not_killing_off_print_books.html
Google and fair use case
Settlement with Author's Guild rejected by court, 2011
http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/copyright/authors-guild-v-google-2
Supreme Court decision not to hear the appeal by Author's Guild, April 2016
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevails-as-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-copyright-case/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/technology/google-books-case.html?_r=0
This effectively ends the appeals.
Palladio visualization software
http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/
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